These three dresses are already winning at party season

If you are obsessed with dresses (and advent calendars for that matter), then John Lewis & Partners' 12 dresses of Christmas will sort you out for party season and beyond.

The department store has worked alongside lots of our favourite high street brands, including Jigsaw and Whistles, to create 12 bespoke dresses to cover all your festive outings, be it New Year's Eve or a Christmas lunch with your pals.

Although the idea is one dress per advent day, they are all available for sale now, because why would you wait eh? There are velvet midi dresses and tuxedos, slip dresses and silk dresses galore, as well as jazzier sequin pieces for going out out.

The collection launched yesterday, and there are already three best-selling dresses, to give you an inkling of what to invest in, should you not want to blow your budget on all twelve outfits, which would be the dream.

According to the buyers at JL&P, the dresses by Hush, Mint Velvet and Warehouse are already the most popular, and I can see why.

Shop now: Mint Velvet Sequin Mini Dress, Gunmetal for £159 from John Lewis

Shop now: Warehouse Zebra Print Midi Dress, Green for £85 from John Lewis

Shop now: hush Gloria Shirt Dress, Navy for £110 from John Lewis

Mint Velvet's mini dress features all-over silver sequins that scream NYE party, while Warehouse's bottle green midi with slits on the sides is the 70s dream.

Finally, Hush's star-covered shirt dress is elegant but sober enough to go from office to party in. Shop them now before they're gone.

Penny Goldstone

Penny Goldstone is the Contributing Fashion Editor at Marie Claire UK. She writes about catwalk trends and the latest high street and Instagram sartorial must-haves. She also helms the Women Who Win franchise.

She has worked in fashion for over 10 years, contributing to publications such as Cosmopolitan, Red, Good Housekeeping, and Stylist.