Consider uniform steady incompressible fluid flow in an unbounded domain past a fixed closed body. In the far field the Oseen equations approximately hold. We compare the Oseen velocity and pressure expansions in the far field for two- and three-dimensional flow by using two approaches: the first decomposes the velocity into a potential velocity and a wake velocity, the second approach uses the Oseen representation of the velocity and pressure by a Green's integral distribution of singularities called `Oseenlets'. These are the force (drag and lift) singular solutions.