You Won't Want to Pack Away Your Summer Dresses When You See Kate Beckinsale in This

Just when you're convinced it's time to throw in the towel and pack away your lightweight, strapless Summer dresses, Kate Beckinsale steps out in this little number. Her textured Victoria Beckham design, which features a single panel, hugs her curves in all the right places — and it's a solid canvas for a well-accessorized look.

While the cooler months tend to put us in the mood for our favorite LBDs, seeing Kate hang on to her glow in white is giving us second thoughts. In fact, Kate works this cocktail midi so well, we went on a hunt for dresses just like it — for all those Fall cocktail parties we've got coming up.

Repurposing your wardrobe isn't just for Level 10 Pinteresters — even if you have no skill with a needle and thread there are plenty of ways you can repurpose dresses in your closet that you're feeling bored by. This is a relief, seeing how most dresses rotate in our closet the way we rotate through summer love affairs. One moment we were happily sprawled out on a blanket underneath a tree, eating watermelon with our popsicle-striped dress on, and the next we're considering introducing it to our friend down the block.

While that keeps things fresh and exciting in your wardrobe, it also keeps things pinched and a little alarmed in your wallet. What if instead of tossing those dresses out, you continued to use them in your closet but in non-obvious ways? Just because you’re bored of them as frocks doesn’t mean they can’t take on a different styling role and feel brand new. To keep you off a CLOTHES SHOPPING-INDUCED bean-can diet, there are clever ways you can change dresses you're convinced you'll never want to wear again, and change them into something completely new and interesting. Here are five ways to repurpose a dress to make it feel like something fresh.

Who says we can't balance a blazer on our shoulders and rock this look in the middle of Winter, with closed-toe pumps in place of ankle-strap sandals? Read on to get started by picking up Kate's essentials.Read More: Missy Dress Canada