Comments on: LOVE/HATE: The Dead Petals Edition

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:33:12 +0000

Once again, I’m in agreement with our Twistie (big surprise, no?). There’s great potential here; it could be pretty. Could be, but is not, not in this iteration. I’ve seen similar dresses sketched from the 40s – very popular for young girls for their dance frocks. I’d opt for perhaps a cluster of flowers on the bodice – in a group near the shoulder, or framing the neckline, or even carefully distributed single blooms – and then artistically scattered – and secured – single petals on the skirt. It really COULD be very pretty.

By: Nariya

Nariya — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:43:02 +0000

Enh. It looks moldy, but there are worse dresses. The cut is fine; I prefer it to the pageant-esque miniature bride idea, with train and veil. This only earns moderate dislike from me.

By: Missy

Missy — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:43:18 +0000

Someone tried to be creative but it didn’t work out. I agree it may be an “ok” dress is it were done correctly with bright petals sewn in specific spots.

By: Melissa B.

Melissa B. — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:02:19 +0000

Miss Crab Cake, I love kids’ fashion sense. I once went to school wearing all of the costume jewelry my grandma had given me for dress-up. But if you bought that dress for your daughter, I would bet that in 10 years she would look at your wedding photos and say, “MOM! Why did you dress me in something so UGLY?!”

By: mb

mb — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:44:36 +0000

Whoa whoa, wait a minute here. When the cute little flower girl sits down on those petals won’t they all crunch up into bits and sift down onto her seat or the floor or everywhere? This seems like a bad idea all around.

By: SusanC

SusanC — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:11:48 +0000

Eww, if pringles went bad, this is what they’d look like.

By: Pencils

Pencils — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:16:32 +0000

That’s awful. I hate the ones with the petals in just the skirt, and here they have them all over for extra ugliness. It’s true, there are SO many adorable flower girl dresses out there, why have something as awful as that?

Also, I really like colored flower girl dresses. Are they coming more into style, or are people still putting the flower girl in white like the bride? My flower girl wore a gorgeous buttercream yellow silk dress with a big sash from Pegeen.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:29:11 +0000

You know, I could actually see a very different version of this idea being pretty. The keys would be very bright or very pale pastel colors and sewing individual petals into carefully sized and shaped pockets so they can’t shift and don’t sit there looking like extremely unhealthy lumps you’d want a doctor to check out.

As it stands, this is one of the ugliest flower girl dresses I’ve ever seen.

By: un-bride

un-bride — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:43:16 +0000

I’m with you. Hate it. Mostly because of the moldy color.

By: Miss Crab Cake

Miss Crab Cake — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:42:42 +0000

My daughter loves that dress. I hate it so much! Who’s idea was that anyway!! gross