LOVE/HATE: the mutton edition
By Never teh Bride
Me? I try not to wear anything that embiggens my upper arm area, which sadly needs no embiggening, thank you very much. There is the element of concealment that comes with a leg o’ mutton sleeve, but this dress also features a plethora of bows and beads I just can’t get behind.
What say you?
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
This isn’t recent is it? It looks like a style from the ’80’s.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
You’re correct, Bride Diva, but you can still buy this dress today for a mere $149+shipping.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Def. a bit too much of the 80’s going on there..
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Well, at least there’s a dress out there with sleeves.
(faint praise, faint praise, damn, damn, damn)
I usually like leg of mutton sleeves because I have no shoulders, so I’m always looking for details that will mitigate that. But off-the-shoulder leg of mutton…nope. Just no.
And yes, it does look like three-quarters of the weddings I attended in the eighties.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Not just ’80s, but from a soap opera during the ’80s.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I still see this (type of) dress in thrift stores all the time, and the condition looks new. So someone’s buying it, and someone’s mother is diggin’ it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
all i can say is i’m so really glad i was but a kid during the ’80s and not of marrying age. those fashions certainly did not age well at all. haha
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Those puffy 80s sleeves are the reason why its so hard to find a non-strapless dress these days! But I think I hate that headpiece even more.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I can somewhat see this dress on a very YOUNG bride, a girl of 19-21 years, who is going for the sweet, innocent look. But it’s still a stretch. Definitely Too Much Going On.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I love it, but only for it’s camp value. I’d never wear it or suggest that anyone else wear it. I am on record as hating this style when when it was in style (circa 1984)
January 4th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Oh my gosh, I remember when this style was sooo glamorous. When I was 10 (in 1991), my best friend and I were fantasizing about our Dream Weddings and we both said we wanted our dresses to have puffy sleeves that ended in pointed triangles over the backs of our hands. I would have loved this dress, even though it’s missing the triangles. But in 2008? Way too dated. I’d be interested to see what a mutton sleeve without all the beading and bows looked like, but I suspect it would still look like a “Dynasty”-era holdover.
January 6th, 2008 at 6:47 am
It’s not so much the mutton sleeves as the BEADING that’s getting to me. Whoever came up with that whole superfluous bead dangle that’s hanging between the bride’s breasts really needs to be punished in ways beyond my imagination.
The rest? Overdone, but somehow it doesn’t offend my sensibilities as much as the beads.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:54 am
It’s pretty scary. Actually, without the insane sleeves, it’s not THAT bad a dress if it were simply a strapless.
January 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
No, this thing is bad all the way around. Why would anyone want to look like this? The mess in her hair just finishes the overall disastrous picture.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Does “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” come to mind?
January 9th, 2008 at 10:04 am
You hit the nail on the head, Jennie!
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
She needs to get some ointment for the thing that’s eating her head.