Okay, so the dress I thought was the dress is really not the dress. Well…it IS the dress, but my body is not the right body for the dress. And I’m not condemning myself or insulting myself, but I’ve got big ole boobs and big ole hips and this dress I love is made for a woman with neither…so…I continue on.
I went to this consignment place at lunch in River North, DESIGNER DRESSES FOR 300% OFF! Well that sounds great, and they’re right around the corner!
I walked in and the whole place is white, white walls, white floors, and white dresses hanging from a few well placed hangers. I ring the doorbell and a lady in white (well that’s a fine coincidence I think) lets me in and asks if I have an appointment, “no” I say, “I just wanted to look” and she says fine and asks me to take off my shoes…really? REALLY? Okay.
So I do and another nice lady (also in white, okay, no coincidence here, yuk) shows me the designer discounted dresses. She tells me the “destination dresses” are on this rack, the plain/no ornament dresses on this rack, the half-beaded dresses on this rack, the full-beaded dresses on this rack, and ball gowns on this rack, and then she told me the dresses for “bigger” girls are on the other racks…you know, I don’t know how a fuller-figure girl does this, every store I’ve been to the dresses are all size 10s pretty much (and this is a small 10 I tell you), I really feel for them. I want to go to the store where we can all try on dresses together…blech.
So I go to the destination dresses, which in wedding dress speak are the more casual dresses, they’re for beach weddings and that kind of thing, and that’s really what I’m looking for, no taffeta in my dress, no train…
And these destination dresses are big, huge, taffeta dresses that are way more than I want to spend.
SOMEBODY PLEASE, I just want a pretty little hippy wedding dress.
I’m going to Tolle this, really…its just…you start having this women tell you you’re already behind, it takes 5-7 months, you have to find something now and my boobs are falling out all over the place, I’m standing in my black socks in a dress that won’t zip up in the back because I can barely fit into what they call a size 10 and other girls in the shop are standing there in dresses that look like Cinderella and I’m tripping over their train and the ladies are eyeing me up and down in their white outfits in the white store with the white floors and…
Right. Tolle.
8 comments:
is there anything that says you have to go to a wedding dress shop? if you want something hippie or cool or alternative (does it have to be white? i'm not knocking it, or beige or cream or eggwhite or whatever, but i don't know if you're wanting that or committed to it), why not try some shop that's cool or hippie or alternative?
try a boutique in wicker park or some place on halsted street or maybe somewheres else in the city. my friend, sabrina, wore a really pretty chocolate brown dress, and i've seen other people do other things that were non-trad.
just sayin'.
Also I bought my dress like a week before and everything was fine. Don't let idiots tell you you are behind. People said that to me all the time and it all got done perfectly as I needed it to be.
Have you looked online at all?
300% off is a total steal. Me likey.
and it was only $75.
hello ladies!
Smuss, I've tried all that, I tried that first in fact...because I really just wanted a dress and I couldn't find anything, so I decided to go bridal and that kinda helped...sigh.
And Kate! These are 300% off dressses that were thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, not in my price range at all...
Crescent. Thank you.
Thanks ladies...smuss...any particular stores in mind in Wicker Park? I'll admit, I haven't checked around there...but I do want something "appropriate" for the occasion, I mean, something light, pretty, and nicer than what my guests are going to be wearing you know?
ugh.
A girl at my work bought a great white knee length cocktail dress at Ann Taylor that I told her she should have used as her wedding dress. Not frilly or anything. Might see if they have anything - that was around christmas time.
Thanks Julene! We actually went there this weekend and tried on their wedding gown, which was very pretty, but too wedding-y and the "bridesmaid" dresses were pretty too, just.not.quite.it.
Feeling much better today though, love hearing everyone's horror stories and realizing mine is just not that bad.
I went to that white place too--not for me, but for a friend, although I was planning my wedding too-- and it utterly horrified me. We tried so hard to be nice, but the two of us had a hard time not laughing at everything. The only nice thing was that they shined my ring. Ugh. I am sorry you went there. $4000 is not a bargain, especially when the dresses are dingy and ugly.
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