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Ugggly wedding dresses!

Sorry to re-open this thread (well, actually, I am not) but someone using a different UseNet group feed recently stumbled across a post from April. My correspondent contacted me directly to write:

"... I can not believe the horrible things that you wrote about some of the gowns and dresses. In defense of them - these are professional couturiers and sewers that are working hard to design dresses, and you just trash them without with no mercy. People work hard to start businesses and it is sad that you have nothing to do but criticize them! Do you know anything about sewing and designing?.

I love the Johanna Grace dresses, they are beautifully designed and if you took one second to read their web site and had an ounce of creativity and taste you would see that they are not just flower girl dresses, but party and holiday dresses. .... If you had any good sense or taste or had an education in design and the history of clothing you would have gotten that. ...There are many other companies there that you trashed that have nice dresses, maybe not to your taste. I am guessing that you work in Walmart.

Shame on you and your hurtful words Veloise. What goes around comes around."

So I am reposting this disclaimer, which was part of the original message:

"Etiquette Hell has a message board! My life is a shambles! This post is new and it's from Cyndi."

Translation: CYNDI wrote these "horrible things." I merely shared her comments and the links with my buddies in alt.sewing.

(FYI: been sewing and designing for several decades. Been a writer of humor and satire for almost as long. In my early years I used to score off-the-charts on reading comprehension tests. And I work as a city planner.)

HTH

--Karen D.

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Veloise
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Dozy thing! Does she have so little taste and knowledge of sewing that she cannot see tacky making up and ugly design when she sees it? Poor thing... Never mind that we cannot (thank God!) all like the same thing anyway! I bet she likes Barbie pink wedding dresses that look like merringues in lace doilies! ;)

Oh, dear - my claws are getting blunt again...

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Kate Dicey

It is immaterial that these are "designer creations"... Some things that come from designers really should be burned (or laughed at)... Just because you call yourself a "designer" does not mean that you have impeccable taste.. That whole argument as presented is not remotely logical - in fact, it is absurd.

If something is horrid, it deserves to be labeled horrid, no matter what designer "created" it, and no matter how long the designer worked on it..Things do not have merit merely based on how long someone worked on them.... Dresses with butt bows big enough to land a piper cub on, asymmetrical horrors with far too many layers of frou-frou, and headpieces which look like giant, cheap plastic bath "puffs", etc. are not in fact in good taste. A designer label alone certainly does not make a gown worth wearing.

Your "correspondant" needs to get rid of her nouveau-riche pseudo-snobbism, and stop trying to look down her nose at people she personally does not agree with.

me (who never worked at W-mart, nor K-mart, nor any other "big box" discount retail store).

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me

Viewing catwalk shows, wedding shows, designer stuff... It's like going to the theatre to watch Kenneth Brannagh and Patrick Stewart in a Shakespeare production at Stratford: half the fun is being there and watching it, partaking of the atmosphere and the sense of occasion, and half is spending equally long (or longer!) in the pub afterwards, picking it to bits. From costume to characterization, from lighting to sets and props... Every fluffed line and wonky hem, every bizarre eyebrow plucking and evil colour choice, as well as every fairy-like stitch of embroidery, and every perfect pause come under the eagle eye of the audience, and we all go away having enjoyed the whole experience for very different reasons!

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Kate Dicey

I'm thinkin' she wore the Cake Dress in her own spotlight. Or perhaps that Opposite-of-Phallic number.

FWI, city planners *hate* Wally World.

--Karen D.

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Veloise

"Veloise" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

but not-so-bright town selectmen love them... :p we have two selectmen that have publicly stated our town will never "be anything" until we get a Wal-mart & a Lowe's. these same selectmen pushed through approval of a big box supermarket over town's people's objections (there are already

21 of this particular store within a half hour's drive & i don't shop there if i can possibly avoid it). there are 5 Wally worlds within that half hour drive too... not that i'd ever set foot in one. i don't mind driving. i moved here because it was rural & i could farm. annoys me that suburbia is catching up. lee
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enigma

So did she have the......courage...... to sign it as Johanna Grace or what? I'm thinking if it struck her that close to home, then she had something to do with the things.

And y'know what.....some of the dresses on that site, most of the dresses on that site, are so ugly that being dragged through mud by a rabid raccoon could only improve them.

What torques me about someone sending you this kind of email, Karen, is that the whole point of this forum is to express our opinions. Yes, mostly we talk about sewing techniques, etc. But we all toss out other stuff from time to time too. And that's what makes it fun to read. And she'd best mind that 'goes around comes around' rule her own self.

Sharon

---cranky from pouring concrete footers yesterday and today. Mostly I just helped DH but I'm still hot and cranky.

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Sharon Hays

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