i love this viktor&rolf for h&m dress but at $99 it's still kind of expensive for a statement dress - people are going to REMEMBER it (hello, neck ruffles). i guess you could change the belt up, but it's so cute i don't know why you'd want to; it also seems a little TOO girly (despite the color) to wear it with a heavier shoe (though some simple, brown, heeled boots would work). all their other stuff is like thousands of dollars so if you can justify a hundred bucks it's a steal, comparatively. of course, you could always buy it and resell it on ebay for gazillions of dollars (which is what happened to large chunk of the stella mccartney for h&m collection), but you'd probably have to fight for it. literally.
*okay i thought about it, and i admit that you can probably style the dress a hundred different ways - but the fact remains that i shop at h&m because the dresses cost like $40. if you have a job where you have to dress up, you might consider this an investment piece; with tights/boots/vest/jacket combinations it can carry you through fall and winter. but how many times in a row can you really wear a dress with a neck ruffle?*