Comments on: Forget the heavy fabrics, and especially forget the itchy polyester http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/ Manolo Loves the Brides! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:53:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Blake http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-163173 Blake Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:11:06 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-163173 Wow, at first glance these are right down my alley. By that I don't mean "my highest aesthetic ideals if I had a body like Iman" but I mean what I would really be likely to walk down the aisle in, and feel good about. Good find! Wow, at first glance these are right down my alley. By that I don’t mean “my highest aesthetic ideals if I had a body like Iman” but I mean what I would really be likely to walk down the aisle in, and feel good about.

Good find!

]]> By: Pencils http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162794 Pencils Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:07:47 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162794 My sister really, really wanted a Laura Ashley linen wedding gown back in 1989, but I think it was just too much money. I love the one in the middle too. I'm glad I didn't see these last year, i would have been tempted and they are more than my budget was. Similar to someone above, my Confirmation dress was a beautiful soft white cotton. I'm not sure what the fabric would be called, it had a faint pattern of scrollwork in stripes. My mom made it, she's a talented seamstress. It was a sundress with a separate short jacket for church, and my mom embroidered multi-colored flower patterns down the facings of the jacket and across the bodice of the dress. I thought it was the most beautiful dress ever. Because of that, I think that cotton would be lovely, if it's the right cotton. I think we get stuck sometimes because you see the same things over and over in the bridal magazines. A young woman I know is knitting her bridal veil out of incredibly fine thread, I think wool. It's a beautiful object, I can't wait to see what it's going to look like with her otherwise traditional gown. My sister really, really wanted a Laura Ashley linen wedding gown back in 1989, but I think it was just too much money. I love the one in the middle too. I’m glad I didn’t see these last year, i would have been tempted and they are more than my budget was.

Similar to someone above, my Confirmation dress was a beautiful soft white cotton. I’m not sure what the fabric would be called, it had a faint pattern of scrollwork in stripes. My mom made it, she’s a talented seamstress. It was a sundress with a separate short jacket for church, and my mom embroidered multi-colored flower patterns down the facings of the jacket and across the bodice of the dress. I thought it was the most beautiful dress ever. Because of that, I think that cotton would be lovely, if it’s the right cotton.

I think we get stuck sometimes because you see the same things over and over in the bridal magazines. A young woman I know is knitting her bridal veil out of incredibly fine thread, I think wool. It’s a beautiful object, I can’t wait to see what it’s going to look like with her otherwise traditional gown.

]]> By: Melissa B. http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162611 Melissa B. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:41:11 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162611 Photographers are the worst offenders. I've been surfing photography websites of late, and Every. Single. One. has autoplay music. I've had to mute my computer to protect my sanity! Photographers are the worst offenders. I’ve been surfing photography websites of late, and Every. Single. One. has autoplay music. I’ve had to mute my computer to protect my sanity!

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162602 Never teh Bride Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:38:31 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162602 You just described about half of the bridal designer web sites out there, Nantoling...gah, I hate autoplay music. You just described about half of the bridal designer web sites out there, Nantoling…gah, I hate autoplay music.

]]> By: Nantoling http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162596 Nantoling Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:22:50 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162596 I love the idea of a natural fiber dress -- although probably not linen, because who wants to have big wrinkles across the back of their wedding dress after the first time they sit down? But I wouldn't get one from The Cotton Bride, because I couldn't get past the last-century website design. A splash page, then a Flash intro, and then cheesy music? I fled before I got to the dresses. I love the idea of a natural fiber dress — although probably not linen, because who wants to have big wrinkles across the back of their wedding dress after the first time they sit down? But I wouldn’t get one from The Cotton Bride, because I couldn’t get past the last-century website design. A splash page, then a Flash intro, and then cheesy music? I fled before I got to the dresses.

]]> By: BunnyBlue http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162563 BunnyBlue Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:14:56 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162563 I'm having my dress made in cotton! ^-^ i like the feel , also I will probably dye the dress after the wedding and wear it again. I'm super psyched about my cotton dress. it's patterned of a vintage 50's sun dress with a super full skirt. I’m having my dress made in cotton! ^-^ i like the feel , also I will probably dye the dress after the wedding and wear it again. I’m super psyched about my cotton dress. it’s patterned of a vintage 50’s sun dress with a super full skirt.

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162338 Never teh Bride Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:34:32 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162338 You've hit the nail on the head, Melissa B.! While some of the sleeker, slinkier gowns are very pretty, too many of them look like something that one ought to be changing into after the wedding is over and one has arrived at one's "private afterparty." You’ve hit the nail on the head, Melissa B.! While some of the sleeker, slinkier gowns are very pretty, too many of them look like something that one ought to be changing into after the wedding is over and one has arrived at one’s “private afterparty.”

]]> By: Melissa B. http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162329 Melissa B. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:41:31 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162329 I love it! The dresses look feather-light but aren't too clingy or nightgown-y like so many "informal/destination" gowns. I love it! The dresses look feather-light but aren’t too clingy or nightgown-y like so many “informal/destination” gowns.

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162325 Never teh Bride Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:08:28 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162325 You know, eyelet fabric is one of those things I always forget about...until I'm reminded of it and I remember how much I adore it. I'm just now learning to make my own clothes, so next time I'm buying fabric, it's eyelet time! You know, eyelet fabric is one of those things I always forget about…until I’m reminded of it and I remember how much I adore it. I’m just now learning to make my own clothes, so next time I’m buying fabric, it’s eyelet time!

]]> By: JaneC http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162315 JaneC Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:36:39 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2008/03/31/forget-the-heavy-fabrics-and-especially-forget-the-itchy-polyester/#comment-162315 My First Communion dress (originally made for my mother by her grandmother in 1957) was white cotton eyelet, and I think I've considered it a perfectly acceptable summer-formal fabric ever since. If I had been married in the May or June rather than in November, I would have been perfectly happy for my wedding dress to be a sized-up version of that simple, old-fashioned First Communion dress, short sleeves and Peter-Pan collar and all. As it was I went for simple and old-fashioned in heavy satin--and somewhat regretted it, because though it was November it was 70 degrees in Los Angeles. My First Communion dress (originally made for my mother by her grandmother in 1957) was white cotton eyelet, and I think I’ve considered it a perfectly acceptable summer-formal fabric ever since. If I had been married in the May or June rather than in November, I would have been perfectly happy for my wedding dress to be a sized-up version of that simple, old-fashioned First Communion dress, short sleeves and Peter-Pan collar and all.

As it was I went for simple and old-fashioned in heavy satin–and somewhat regretted it, because though it was November it was 70 degrees in Los Angeles.

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