LOVE/HATE: The Added Bulk Edition
By Never teh BrideI know that since I was a little girl I’ve been dreaming of a wedding gown that would emphasize my saddlebags… a wedding gown that would perhaps even add girth where there was no girth to begin with. I think I have finally found that gown.
No really, what exactly am I looking at? Is that where the bride stashes the bridal bouquet (and the bridesmaids’ bouquets, apparently) while visiting with her guests? Is this wedding gown for the bride who absolutely, positively does not want to have to keep tabs on an clutch? Can you fit a bottle of something naughty in each bulge?
Hahahaha, hate. What say you?
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:27 am
Wow. Way to take a boring gown and ugly it up, Mr. Designer. Nice work!
They do get points for the creamy, gold-ish ivory color, though. The fabric looks lovely.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Forget the saddlebags. It looks like a prom dress, not a wedding dress. I’ve got no love for it, even though I agree thAT the color is nice.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
A cross between Ren Faire and prom–the poufs are on a split overskirt if I’m reading the photo right, but what’s the point when the underskirt is the same fabric and color? It’s not in period, and it’s not an attractive variation.
This is the worst case scenario for pick-ups gone wrong.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Definite hate, except for the color.
The problem with this gown is that it won’t go minimalist, in that the saddlebags were added, but then the designer was afraid to go balls out over the top with it once he’d added the saddlebags.
If you’re going to put such a thoroughly maximalist touch on a gown, you really do have to go all out with it…not that I think it would be terribly pretty in that case. Still, balls out would at least look amusing or horrifying rather than sadly ridiculous. Given full reign, the OTT design could even go beyond ugly to a form of charming. Left at this, it’s just Prom Queen Gone Wrong.
This dress dies with a whimper rather than a bang.
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Love the bodice, hate the skirt. Even better, though, it looks like the model was only shown the top before putting it on. Her look clearly says “you put me in what? you douche!”
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:10 am
What Twistie said. Full-on panniers might have worked, this is just timid and sad.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
This is one of the few gowns that gets a complete, no-holds-barred Eccchhhh from me. I don’t care for the colour, which would make me look like a leprous corpse; the fact that it’s silk satin tells me that every crease and mark will show; unless it’s fortified with 58 steel stays, the top will neither stay up nor support; and if I’m going to wear panniers, I’ll take mine out of the top of my closet, and wear a gown that’s meant to go over them and DO IT RIGHT. This is an utterly flaccid evocation of a dress, IMO.