staunchiest pop-hater get up and dance". Reception Critical response "Red Dress" received positive reviews from music critics. Stuart McCaighy of This Is Fake DIY described the song as "top of the range pop", and considered it an example that Xenomania "don't keep all their best songs for Girls Aloud." Peter Robinson of The Observer called the track a "thumping tour de force from Xenomania", and noted that it "flirts vivaciously with pop songwriting convention". A journalist from Virgin Media regarded "Red Dress" as an "irresistibly funky effort from the amorphous trio and their producers". AllMusic critic K. Ross Hoffman praised the bassline sampled from Tony Clarke's "Landslide", while Fiona Edwards of Digital Spy applauded the song's bass, beats, and chorus. Nick Southall of Stylus Magazine described the song as an "up-tempo floor-filler" with a "maximalist stomp". Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Joe Muggs praised "Red Dress" as a dancefloor hit; similarly, Digital Spy critics Nick Levine and David Balls considered it one of the group's most danceable singles. A journalist from The Scotsman characterised the track as "mechanically groovy", while a Birmingham Mail critic described it as "a stomping anthem with attitude-drenched verses and killer chorus". Alexis Petridis of The Guardian characterised "Red Dress" as a "brilliant, immaculately written pop song". However, Andrew Mueller of the same publication called it "a lazy and rather too obvious retread" of the group's 2004 single, "In the Middle". Chart performance "Red Dress" debuted at number four on the UK Singles Chart in the issue dated 18 March 2006 with 18,210 copies sold. It was the highest-ranked debut for that week. Taller in More Ways subsequently became the first album by the Sugababes to produce three UK top-five hits. "Red Dress" spent ten weeks on the chart and has sold 100,000 copies in the country, ranking as the group's fourteenth best-selling single in the UK. The song debuted and peaked at number twelve on the Irish Singles Chart. "Red Dress" appeared on the Dutch Top 40 chart at number nine, and peaked at number seven the following week for two non-consecutive weeks. It was the chart's 66th best-performing single of 2006. The single reached the top twenty on the charts in Denmark and Norway, and the top forty on the charts in Belgium (Flanders), Germany, Hungary, and Switzerland. It reached number 41 on the Austrian Singles Chart, and number 61 on the Czech Singles