Competition: tell us why you’d love to win this gorgeous beach dress from Debenhams

This competition is now closed – thank you for all your brilliant entries! You can find out who the winner is by clicking here.

If our blog on this season’s beachwear must-haves has already whetted your appetite, then you’ll love our new competition – with the chance to win this pretty jersey beach dress from the Debenhams Beach Collection.

Featuring a bright floral design, a shirred back panel, and a cute twist detail on the bust, Debenhams’ black floral twist-front jersey beach dress has lightly padded cups for support and adjustable straps for comfort.

Available in sizes 8 to 20, it’s the perfect choice for your holiday capsule wardrobe this summer – compact, lightweight and stylish, and ideal whether you’re enjoying a walk along the beach or a relaxing evening of cocktails on the hotel terrace!

How to enter

Thanks to the lovely folks at Debenhams, we have one of these fantastic dresses to give away – and to be in with a chance to win, you just have to get your creative juices flowing and complete the following sentence:

“I’d love this Debenhams beach dress because…”

You can be witty, clever, silly, heartfelt – whatever you like, as long as it’s original! – and we’ll choose our favourite entry to win the prize. We’ll also showcase a selection of the best remaining entries in a blog here at the Fashion & Style Directory.

You can choose whether you’d like to enter the competition via Twitter, Facebook, or the Fashion & Style Directory website (but please only enter once!):

Enter via Twitter

• Make sure you’re following @FSDFashionTips on Twitter, and tell us in a tweet (mentioning @FSDFashionTips, of course) “I’d love this @Debenhams beach dress because…”

Enter via Facebook

• Make sure you’ve liked our FSDFashionTips Facebook page, and post a comment/reply on our wall saying “I’d love this Debenhams beach dress because…”

Enter via this website

• Scroll down this page to where it says ‘What do you think? Share your thoughts below’, and post a comment telling us “I’d love this Debenhams beach dress because…” It’s easy to create a dedicated login for the Fashion & Style Directory, or you can also log in using your WordPress, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ profile.

We’ll be drawing the winner on Thursday 3 July 2014, so make sure you enter no later than 23:59 BST on Wednesday 2 July.

Good luck, everyone – and even if you don’t win, the dress is a bargain £32 from Debenhams, so you could always treat yourself before the summer hols anyway! 😉

Ts&Cs

This competition is open to anyone who enters via the Fashion & Style Directory’s Twitter, Facebook or website, using the instructions given above, between Thursday 26 June 2014 and Wednesday 2 July 2014 inclusive. We can only accept one entry per person.

The prize will be awarded to our favourite entry, chosen from all qualifying entries on 3 July 2014, and the editor’s decision is final. The prize winner will be notified, and announced on Twitter, Facebook and this website, no later than 5 July 2014; the winner will then need to message us their full name and address, and their preferred dress size, so that Debenhams can post out the prize directly.

The prize consists of one black floral twist front jersey beach dress (worth £32), as pictured, from the Debenhams Beach Collection, and is available in sizes 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. In the unlikely event that this particular dress is unavailable at the close of the competition, we will offer an alternative prize of equivalent value from the Debenhams Beach Collection.

By entering this prize draw you are deemed to have accepted the terms above. Promoter: CannySites.com, Gateshead, NE8 2BS.