Comments on: Days 5 and 6 http://champagneandsocks.com/2011/09/11/days-5-and-6/ A Girlie Jones Adventure Fri, 29 Apr 2016 03:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Fe http://champagneandsocks.com/2011/09/11/days-5-and-6/#comment-849 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:10:15 +0000 http://champagneandsocks.com/?p=464#comment-849 I didn’t really finish that:-)

I would not have had the wedding dress I did (that people _still_ refer to, 9 years later… as so gorgeous… _many_ people!) if I hadn’t been so obedient!

We were at a bridal salon, and I was dutifully trying on everything I was told. My sister told me I was to try on this _hideous_ thing (it was a fuschia pink meringue… with black tulle ‘bits’ all over it… including a black tulle flower on the shoulder… and I think there was some glittery black tulle to highlight… I have no idea what it was _doing_ there, it stood out amongst the white and cream!), because everyone needed to try on at least one hideous dress… I put it on, and we were all amazed! It still looked hideous, but _I_ looked good!

So my sister made me a deep red dress for my wedding. A white or cream one would have been lovely, and I would have looked nice… but I thanks to my red dress, I _still_ have people tell me it was amazing:-)

So if you have someone who can pick out the elements that work, it really is worth trying on things where you can’t see any good features:-)

]]> By: Fe http://champagneandsocks.com/2011/09/11/days-5-and-6/#comment-847 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:38:49 +0000 http://champagneandsocks.com/?p=464#comment-847 That’s sort of what I did for my wedding dress, and then again for my sister’s bridesmaid dress…. But basically, I take my sister who _likes_ clothes (she’s a dressmaker, as part of her job). I try on everything she gives me… and after a handful, even _I_ can see which elements are working:-) Makes it much easier to pick possibilities after that:-) (and in both those cases, she was making the dress:-) )

I’m planning on taking her with me some time after I finish having kids, so I can ‘do’ that kind of search with a post-baby body:-) So it should be possible for me to shop on my own for a few years after that:-)

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