keithurbanlovinpea
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Feb 7, 2017 18:36:07 GMT
But I'm over the strapless wedding dress trend just for trend sake. Yes, brides can wear whatever they want. It's none of my business. But sometimes I feel like some brides just pick a strapless dress because it's trendy, not because it actually looks good. I've seen so many dresses that have so much real estate between breast and chin that it looks weird. Or the dress is barely hanging on to the breast. Or the breasts are barely contained.
OK I'm done being a bitchy, shallow person.
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Post by jemali on Feb 7, 2017 18:37:19 GMT
I agree. Strapless is not flattering on a lot of people.
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Post by Linda on Feb 7, 2017 18:38:25 GMT
I, personally, think that strapless dresses are rarely a flattering option. However, brides get to pick the dress they love
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Feb 7, 2017 18:42:34 GMT
I'm starting to see more variety than I was seeing, say, 5-10 years ago. It was fascinating to see the way strapless styles took over for a while.
I have very narrow shoulders, so strapless styles just don't look great on me. I absolutely couldn't have pulled off a strapless wedding gown.
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Post by workingclassdog on Feb 7, 2017 18:43:10 GMT
I agree but then again I am so out of the wedding thing loop.. heck 1800 inspired dresses could be in fashion and I wouldn't know.. lol
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Post by gmcwife1 on Feb 7, 2017 18:44:48 GMT
It seems like for many years there wasn't much out there that wasn't strapless. I don't know which came first, all strapless for sale or brides wanting strapless so limited non-strapless options  But I agree, that style does not work for everyone. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 18:45:02 GMT
Why do you have to be over it? You do you and let the strapless dress wearing brides do them.
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Post by marimoose on Feb 7, 2017 18:50:10 GMT
I actually agree. I see so many strapless dresses, not just wedding and they look like they are falling off the body. Too often they are not flattering. Itry to keep in mind that it is their choice, just as what I choose ot wear is my choice but dang, do they not see what others are seeing. I think strapless might be ok if they raised it up just a little bit. BTW - I thought I was the only one who felt this way and have mentioned my viewpoint to my daughter and she doesn't see it *shrugging*
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Post by littlemama on Feb 7, 2017 18:55:49 GMT
I think that hardly anyone looks good in a strapless dress and I never understood why they were all the rage for several years.
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Post by Scrappyhappy on Feb 7, 2017 19:03:20 GMT
My daughter's wedding dress was strapless, she looked great because it fit her body well. I've been to a lot of weddings where the bride was constantly pulling their dress back up.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Feb 7, 2017 19:45:51 GMT
I also agree that they are not for everyone. I've been to a ton of weddings and most of the women wearing strapless dresses spend more time pulling the dang dress up than they do anything else. I don't know if it's that they didn't get it fit correctly, or that they aren't used to wearing strapless that they feel the need to pull it up to make sure it's in place, but it's not attractive to watch a bride yanking her dress up every 5 mins. My daughter loves the look of strapless dresses. I asked her to buy a regular everyday strapless dress and wear it a few times and consciously pay attention to how many times she pulled it up. She did and was surprised how many times she caught herself pulling it up. I then asked her what she thought a lot of weight on the bottom of the dress would add to the yank percentage. She took all that into consideration when picking her wedding dress and decided on a sleeveless, but not strapless dress. She was happy she did. She looked beautiful and we don't have one picture with her yanking up her dress. |
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Post by lbp on Feb 7, 2017 19:46:31 GMT
Last wedding I went to the Bride spent most of the evening tugging her dress back up. Like all clothes, come people look great in the them and get a good fit and some don't.
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Post by RosieKat on Feb 7, 2017 19:48:51 GMT
Strapless looks lovely on some people, but not most of them. I had really hoped when the Kate & William royal wedding happened that strapless would go back to being a minor player, but no. I think it did help break the trend of all strapless, all the time. All I know is that even though I was thinner 21 years ago when I got married (OK, 20 years and 355 days, lol), strapless would have made me look like I was serving those babies up on a platter. Only one person in attendance would have appreciated that!  |
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Post by melanell on Feb 7, 2017 20:00:57 GMT
My dress was short sleeve---not cap sleeve, and finding that dress was hard, and that was almost 20 years ago now. So I agree that for some it may feel like there's so little other choice. But ultimately, I feel like wedding dresses are no different from any other clothing, we all have different ideas about what is a "proper" fit or what is flattering, so at any time any among us could be wearing something that gets a "WTHeck?" or "Why in the world?" from someone else. |
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Post by padresfan619 on Feb 7, 2017 20:05:15 GMT
I was a bride 5 years ago with a non/strapless dress and it was DIFFICULT to find something that wasn't strapless. Some chains refused to add any kind of straps to a strapless dress.
I recently went dress shopping with a friend and it was just as difficult for her as it was for me. She ended up adding straps to a strapless dress.
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Post by freebird on Feb 7, 2017 20:09:30 GMT
Preach!!
I've seen so many poorly fitted strapless dress I could barf coat hangers! I've seen one bride I can think of off the top of my head whose body was just made for a strapless. That's out of thousands of girls (factoring in bridesmaids).
I had one bride that was a beautiful girl, large chested, curvy girl and at the end of the night it was almost pornographic how much breast was hanging down/out. I felt bad for her, I knew she spent an ungodly fortune on that dress. All that some cute little cap sleeves could have fixed! (and looked nicer on her.
Ironically, my own dress was strapless, however, I wore a regular bra under it and then wore a bolero jacket.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Feb 7, 2017 20:16:16 GMT
As a former wedding photographer, I agree that few women are flattered by strapless dresses.
I feel the dressmakers need to give brides more choices.
But as long as those horrid giant sleeves from the 80's do not come back, I'm good.
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Post by mallie on Feb 7, 2017 20:50:31 GMT
My dd and I went to a wedding expo last weekend. During the fashion show, one poor model was wearing a strapless dress and it started to slide down her body. Luckily, she was wearing a bra. I wonder how many brides might have been dissuaded from a strapless dress by that display.
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Post by J u l e e on Feb 7, 2017 21:51:24 GMT
It's one of the major things I would go back and change about my wedding if I could. I wore a strapless dress and absolutely should not have. I found one other dress that I loved that had spaghetti straps - even with such tiny straps it would have looked better. But that dress was mid calf (which I really wish I had chosen) and I just loved the bottom of the strapless dress I ended up choosing. I am thin with no curves. I have bony arms and really bony shoulders and clavicles. And not much chest to speak of. What made that all worse was the fact that I was sick for much of the six months before my wedding and it looks it in my wedding photos. I don't even like looking at them. Sigh. I would have loved a dress like Kate Middlrton's with sleeves.
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Post by bc2ca on Feb 7, 2017 22:12:34 GMT
Most girls need to invest in some serious foundation garments and have great posture to pull off the strapless look, but even then I think it is a look that flatters very few of us.
The strapless trend isn't just a problem for brides, DD had to search high & low for homecoming and prom dresses that weren't strapless.
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Post by Country Ham on Feb 7, 2017 22:20:38 GMT
I haven't seen a strapless dress on a bride in years. I remember them well about 15 to 20 years ago. Now prom/formal dresses on teens and young adults I see them way too much. Looks so awkward.
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Post by mallie on Feb 7, 2017 22:22:39 GMT
I haven't seen a strapless dress on a bride in years. I remember them well about 15 to 20 years ago. Now prom/formal dresses on teens and young adults I see them way too much. Looks so awkward. Really? We are wedding gown shopping and although Kate Middleton's gown has inspired some gowns with sleeves, 90% of what we have seen is strapless. My girls have also been in a total of 6 weddings in the last 18 months -- all strapless wedding gowns. |
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 7, 2017 22:30:08 GMT
Brides should look at illusion styles - my dress wasn't dissimilar to this one. I picked it as I really liked the look of strapless, but as with even the best of foundation garments - I'm barely a B cup - I had visions of my dress around my waist.  |
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 7, 2017 23:39:26 GMT
Last wedding I went to the Bride spent most of the evening tugging her dress back up. Like all clothes, come people look great in the them and get a good fit and some don't. I'm more in high school formal mode than wedding dress- it's nice to see few strapless formals, and semi-embarrassed teens trying to pull them up. Now, hopefully those wearing the front slit to the waist can learn to manage their invisible tape. |
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Post by compwalla on Feb 7, 2017 23:42:00 GMT
But I'm over the strapless wedding dress trend just for trend sake. Yes, brides can wear whatever they want. It's none of my business. But sometimes I feel like some brides just pick a strapless dress because it's trendy, not because it actually looks good. I've seen so many dresses that have so much real estate between breast and chin that it looks weird. Or the dress is barely hanging on to the breast. Or the breasts are barely contained. OK I'm done being a bitchy, shallow person. They buy strapless because they are cheaper to sew and tailor than sleeved dresses. They are cheaper to make and to buy and to have fitted. So more and more strapless dresses get sold and more and more are offered until it's hard to find a dress that isn't strapless. |
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Post by Jennifer C on Feb 7, 2017 23:49:12 GMT
I went to a wedding a few weekends ago. The whole time I was praying for my friend. My beautiful but heavily endowed friend. Think D or maybe E cup.
She looks fabulous in her everyday look. I was surprised and shocked when she entered the church. Her boobs were up to her chin. She had a necklace that almost couldn't be seen.
Her Mom told mine that she warned her about strapless, but she fell in love with the bottom of the dress. She wanted sleeves or straps put on, but didn't want it to seem like she bought a strapless dress and added straps or sleeves, so she did without.
At one point she started dancing and her husband had to quickly hug her to cover her up. He's the only one that enjoyed the dress.
I'll be so happy when sleeves comes back into style.
Jennifer
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Post by freecharlie on Feb 8, 2017 0:42:54 GMT
I am totally a judgy McJedgerson, but I don't give a second thought about what someone chooses on her wedding day based on style.
Now, if I found the dress hideous, I might think something
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Post by cadoodlebug on Feb 8, 2017 0:47:04 GMT
I'm with you, OP. Nothing less attractive than a bride constantly hiking her dress up to keep her boobs from flashing her guests.  |
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 8, 2017 0:52:51 GMT
Search Mormon wedding dresses and you won't see a strapless gown.  |
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Post by pjaye on Feb 8, 2017 0:54:23 GMT
But I'm over the strapless wedding dress trend just for trend sake. Yes, brides can wear whatever they want. It's none of my business. But sometimes I feel like some brides just pick a strapless dress because it's trendy, not because it actually looks good I read something on this once and it basically said that strapless dresses were in shops because they were easier to construct and therefore cheaper to make and to adjust because there's not fitted sleaves, necklines etc. That quote wasn't from the same article I read, but a quick google search confirmed basically the same thought - the article I read said therefore don't expect the strapless dress to go away anytime soon because it's a trend pushed by the dress designers and manufacturers that makes it easier & cheaper for them to produce the gowns. |
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