Nice slip, but where’s your gown?
By Never teh Bride
I’m all for simple. But I draw the line at wedding dresses that look too much like underwear. It is possible for a dress to be too plain. Were I to witness a bride walking down the aisle in this specimen of wedding wear from the typically more elaborate Allure Bridals, my first thought would be, “What happened to your gown that forced you to get married in your slip, hon?”
If you need more convincing, note that it appears the top has molded cups rather like these:
The similarities are truly striking!
And P.S. what is up with the look on Ms. ModelBride’s face? All these wedding wear models need to go back to Barbizon or wherever it is they came from.
June 16th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Wow, that really is…slip-like. I think they were going for minimal, but fell off and landed on foundation garment. It would make a nice bridal slip, though, if the under-bust detailing wouldn’t show through your gown.
As for the face…I’ve had a pet peeve for yonks about the way models are all told to frown and channel some Amazonian Warrior Queen when showing wedding gowns. I remember looking at a bridal magazine once and thinking a gown looked really pretty. When I took a second look, I realized I hated the gown. What I’d been reacting to was the radient smile on the model’s face. Her happiness blinded me. I also had to make myself go back and look at other gowns because the angry snarls made me think the dresses must be horrible. Okay, some were still horrible, but a lot were lovely. I really don’t think it helps sales when the models look like they’re either dying for prunes or plotting world domination.
As for this one…man she looks drugged. Is Thorazine chic back already?
June 16th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Twistie, I’m afraid so. Girls who look they’re underage are chic now too.
I’ve been looking through my fiancée’s wedding magazines and finding a lot of awful hair, and poses (WHAT’S WITH THE HUNCHED BACK?) and facial expressions..
June 17th, 2006 at 12:20 am
That dress is so smooth that it looks like it’s made of fondant. Would that I had the body to make a dress hang like that; but ten-to-one someone spent an entire weekend ironing out the “bloops” with Photoshop. Or maybe the whole dress is molded, like the cups! Like one big Wonderbra. If you leaned from side to side it’d do a “ding-dong” thing like the Liberty Bell.
(Oh dear, that induced a bad hoop-skirt flashback…)
June 17th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
I’m going to go against the crowd here and say that I love that dress; if I were tall and willowy, instead of just shy of 5′2″, I’d definitely wear it.
I think it lies so smoothly because the model is wearing Spanx underneath.
I agree that models’ facial expressions these days do not help sell the looestk, especially for wedding dresses. I think that the best wedding dress ads are not even for wedding dresse, but for Estee Lauder perfumes, in which glowing brides hang out with their flower girls.
June 17th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
The wedding wear models, their facial expressions they do not sell the dress, but rather the plastic surgeon who gave them the pout of the trout.
June 17th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Not to plagairize, but I had pseudo-html tags that said “manolo voice on” and “manolo voice off” to begin and end the previous comment, but between writing and posting the system erased them. Quelle Horror!
June 17th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Oh man, those molded cups are awful! I was trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with her boobs (see above, “fondant”) until I read that. It reminds me of the time my flat-chested roommate bought the most-fake-looking-falsies-ever to fill out a special-occasion dress. We laughed until we cried. It just looked so unnatural.
June 18th, 2006 at 12:43 am
Yay for Spanx!
June 18th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
What I hate are how so many of the bridal gown models are so young. I’ve gotten used to the idea of seeing fourteen-year-olds selling haute couture. But I HATE seeing fourteen-year-olds selling bridal gowns. I know she’s not actually getting married, she’s not old enough! So why is she in that gown? Have you seen the current ads for Reem Acra? They’re the worst offenders. The model is beautiful, just gorgeous. She’s also the age of a junior bridesmaid. Bleh! I would never patronize their company after seeing that ad campaign. It’s just offensive. (Also the hair is stupid, but that’s another rant…)
June 18th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
I went BM dress shopping over the weekend and found a dress that I am CERTAIN was literally a chemise/slip in purple. It was the most Nightgown looking dress. Bleh.
Here here on the pouty model front.
June 19th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
I actually love the dress. Give me simple over fussy lace any day!
But ugh… that model… (shudder). The dress might look less like a slip if she didn’t look like she had just been surprised in her dressing room by a peeping tom.
June 19th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Not to seem catty, but I must return to comment on her hair, which I think does nothing for the whole look. It’s lovely and curly; but it doesn’t really “match.” I think that something sleeker (like the photo in the “bridal hair” piece) would have set off the dress (and the model’s face) more effectively. Or at least pull it off her face a bit. I dunno.
By the way: do they make Spanx that can make people look like that in a bias-cut satin dress? If so, sign me up. And I’ll take 10 pairs. In each color…