Comments on: Ugly wedding dress of the day

Ugly wedding dress of the day

adamrice — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:33:21 -0800

Here comes the...what the hell is that? Yes, it's almost redundant to mention that bridesmaid's dresses are ugly--I've always assumed this was to make the bride look that much better by comparison. But sometimes the bride isn't doing herself any favors with her sartorial selection.

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:43:13 -0800

Annnd Ugly Bridesmaid Dresses

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:50:34 -0800

I'll take this opportunity to congratulate MeFiers ratbastard and Sapphireblue on their nuptials this past Saturday. I was there, and Ms. Blue (or is it Mrs. Bastard now?) was positively radiant.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:55:12 -0800

A lot of these are reruns from previous threads (based on sites with slightly different names, so this isn't a double-post callout!) but the new ones always seem to make it worth it: "Look," they said to each other, snickering behind their hands, "Allison's bed comforter is stuck to her butt!" That really is what it looks like...

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:59:51 -0800

Admittedly, some of the dresses are inspired by traditional cultural wedding garb of various sorts, but most of them are down right awful. Especially the country-western ones. "What kind of wedding dresses do you have?" "Oh, we have both kinds, country and western." [If that is now an obscure reference, I am entirely too old.]

By: mazola

mazola — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:04:10 -0800

[If that is now an obscure reference, I am entirely too old.] You're on a mission from God.

By: 2sheets

2sheets — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:06:02 -0800

Actually, I thought the first one was a tremendous improvement on the traditional fare, but it does go down from there. I think it's all (including traditional) tacky garbage.

By: emptyage

emptyage — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:08:42 -0800

The Flag Dress?!? Did you not see the flag dress? How could you miss the flag dress? Should I salute?

By: tommasz

tommasz — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:11:08 -0800

I can decide if some of those dresses are for real or wardrobe for a fetish flick. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:13:20 -0800

Dang, nothing ruins a smarmy comment like typing "can" instead of "can't".

By: biffa

biffa — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:18:46 -0800

The Flag Dress?!? Did you not see the flag dress? How could you miss the flag dress? Twenty years from now when she's leading the revolution for a free America, she's really going to regret having modelled that.

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:28:51 -0800

Who actually appreciates the bridal industry? It seems that we have a case of runaway selection of bad taste in weddings lately.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:43:00 -0800

What's perhaps scarier is that I've seen a completely different American Flag bridal gown at a local bridal/quincé shop. Yes, there are options if you want to wrap yourself in the flag for your wedding.

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:07:05 -0800

What is up with this whole bare-midriff wedding dress trend?

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:15:18 -0800

Also, The Bridesmaid Dress Incinerator

By: jennyb

jennyb — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:16:39 -0800

A lot of that is couture, though, so as such it is, by definition, not ready to wear. Those are just designers' visions of what could be done with a wedding dresses. The photos that are pulled from ads are probably not targeted to someone who's going to Davis Bridal to pull something off the rack. You could get as big a kick out of flipping through a Women's Wear Daily and chuckling at the spring runway lines, too. It's not that some of them aren't ugly, it's just that for the most part, they aren't meant to go down the aisle as pictured so it's kind of pointless to hold them to that practical standard. That said, there is absolutely no excuse for that US flag dress, and if any of my friends thought about that with even a modicum of seriousness, I would knock her unconscious and drag her out of the bridal shop.

By: Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:19:57 -0800

There are a couple other similar sites out there. My favorite is And The Bride Wore... featuring what I consider to be the ugliest wedding dress ever. There is also the Cavalcade of Bad Bridal Fashion. I might be having a wedding next spring (although I'm already married, we never had a wedding, and my husband wants one) and I'm thinking of knitting my own dress. There is a pattern for a knitted wedding dress (PDF) out there, but I'm not sure it's really my style.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:31:59 -0800

I think that's a lovely dress.

By: elgoose

elgoose — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:53:06 -0800

Sign of very bad wedding dress: can be reused as prom dress by bride's younger sister.

By: hellinskira

hellinskira — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:53:49 -0800

Here comes the...science?

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:54:47 -0800

Well, I found many of those dresses to be highly fashionable. . . . Then again I have been known to buy clothes from International Male, so perhaps my opinion should be ignored.

By: Dunvegan

Dunvegan — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:42:15 -0800

Although I usually shy away from posting an image...this photo begs the collective tolerance for a viewing: Usually, I'd make a summation remark here, perhaps about the beauty of motherhood, or a crass joke like:

Bride: Demi Moore called. She wants her wedding dress back.However I demur this time as there is a fairly high probability that each and every reader is now, for all intent and purposes, temporarly functionally blind.

By: Orb

Orb — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:48:46 -0800

While some of them are truly "out there" and pretty darn ugly, many of the ones she rattles on about the most are based on historical and cultural themes ... and not nearly as bad as she makes them sound. In fact, there were a few that I saved to my hard drive for later reference. Basically, after looking at the dress she wore for her own wedding, it seems she just has a problem with anything that isn't completely plain. But that flag dress ... that's got to go. Could you burn it without getting in trouble I wonder? Thank you Dunvegan. Now that image will be popping into my head for days ... if not weeks.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:21:08 -0800

Perhaps they're made that ugly to facilitate a speedy removal...? It's just a theory, I'm not married to it. I'm here all week, try the spaghetti (straps).

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:18:40 -0800

I love the red dress of doom...Little Red Riding Hood's wedding dress...I wouldn't wear it at my wedding...but I'd find someplace to wear it...yes I would.

By: Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:17:10 -0800

Is the pregnant prom dress a Photoshop? Something about the belly doesn't quite look right.

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:40:51 -0800

I thought my wedding dress was bad (was supposed to be nice sweet 50s' cocktail dress made from plain white cotton, ended up being a wrinkled linen mess that looked like something you'd buy at a discount "for the more reubenesque woman" and was still too small), but after some of those... yeesh. I'm glad I spent under $100.

By: uosuaq

uosuaq — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:39:27 -0800

Bandwidth exceeded...any mirrors?

By: arco

arco — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:25:39 -0800

I'm getting married in 10 days, and something tells me my fiancee needs to see these dresses to take her mind off all this stress. Then again, the one Dunvegan showed us might send her over the edge.

By: Dunvegan

Dunvegan — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:30:15 -0800

No, I don't belive the preggers prêt-à-porter is Photoshop. If you click on the thumbnail to enlarge it, it seems the young lady was caught by surprise in the flash while she was modeling the gown for friends and/or family. Actually, the model in that photo has a very lovely face...when you get around to raising your eyes.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:53:03 -0800

Shoeburyness, I'm an avid knitter with an entire large box full of knitting magazines and books. If you are looking for patterns for a knitted dress, I'll be happy to fax you some. Just email me, tell me what kind of thing you'd like (you don't have an email address listed on your page or I would have contacted you directly).