Brides and fashion

This is an excerpt I got from a post sent to me by a heterosexual male friend who attended a wedding last week He has an unusual perspective on most things in life. It's a little off-topic but it does concern fashion and sewing.

---------- Now let me just say a little about wedding gowns. They tend to come in two styles. Ugly and beautiful. It can be simple, intricate, refined, sexy. But it all boils down to, 'Holy Christ, is that a cross-dressing linebacker?' or 'She looks wonderful.'

The funny thing is, one thing that works on one dress is a very bad decision on another. It's like the bride, who has gone over this day in her head since the womb, takes every dress idea she's ever has and mushes it into one big 'You can't leave out the mother of pearl butterfly interlaced train with the butt poofing taffeta fluff! It will ruin your big day!'

-------- You should someday read his observances on wedding gowns that don't quite cover the tattoos ...

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Judy
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This made me spit coffee all over the keyboard........;)

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ds

NOT OT in my opinion - lots of us here MAKE wedding gowns and ponder the same points! Plenty of 'dream' wedding gowns are more like nightmares!

I have been very lucky in the brides I have worked for so far, and the latest is a real sweetie. However, I'm sure the PITA Bride is lurking out there somewhere...

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Kate Dicey

I had to gently "talk down" a few brides before I gave up on the whole wedding racket. Golden skin-toned bride with floor-length hair that she was planning on wearing down with a "family" veil faded to cream....wanted a blue-white crisp taffeta gown with biiiig sleeve-headers, for example. Also, short plump women in pouffy lace and ruffles look like teddy bears.

------------------------------------------------------ Wendy Z Chicago, IL (Moo) Wench Wear Costumes

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zski

Judy, please share his thoughts on the wedding dresses that don't completely cover tatoos!!! It didn't dawn on me until the day before DH and I got married that there was a chance the dress would slip and show a bit of the tatoo I have on my shoulder. Now, my family and friends knew that I had it, but we had kept it hidden from my future inlaws, just as we kept the fact that I had been previously married (DH felt it was none of their business). I had spent a week in May (we were married in August) meeting different fmaily memebers of DHs and I always had the shoulder tat as well as the one on my ankle covered.....however......

As I was taking my future MIL and her husband back to the hotel, I had to ask how she felt about tatoos. Her response was, "Larisa, honey, do you have tatoos?" When I said yes, she replied, "That's alright, honey, we got to know and love you before we knew." LOL

Larisa

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CNYstitcher

How about the attendant's gowns? Too often they have no say on color or style. When I was in my brother's wedding, I had to wear a YELLOW (as in really, really yellow) gown. I looked like I was dead, and what looked great on a size 2, just didn't fly for a size 14.

My daughter was in her brother in law's wedding. Her gown was bright blue, with yards and yards of white lace on the bodice, and hem . She looked like a cross between Gone With the Wind and a saloon girl. After the initial shock was over we laughed like idiots for months afterwards.

Sharon

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Sharon & Jack

I figured that some brides choose their attendants' gowns to get back at them for some long-smoldering slight. This has to be the reason for some of the incredible choices, e.g., tea-length velvet gowns and hose for an outdoor Houston wedding in early September!

Taffy

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Taffy Cheerful

Karen Howland once gave a talk on sewing for bridal where she showed various different "white" fabrics under different lighting. It's amazing how synthetics show up as a completely different, cooler, color than silks. I also once observed an incredible wedding gown, made by a somewhat famous person, that combined silk fabrics and synthetic laces. The result was horribly jarring under fluorescent lighting. The silks are more mellow, and the synthetics have a bluish (like skim milk) or almost violet overcast.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

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SewStorm

Send him to ettiquettehell.com, and also uglydress.com. Man needs support for his ideas!

--Karen M.

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Karen M.

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