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Have you ever fallen in love with a dress you saw a picture of and when you saw it in the store it looked nothing like what you saw in the ad?

YUP!  I saw the dress that I was in LOVE with in a mag, tried it on and I was like eh.. I couldn't stand it! lol

Yeppers!  Just shows you how models are not the best to be posing around in wedding dresses.  I guess that's why it's just so important to try on the dress in person and see how it works with your body.

I know what you girls mean!! I loved a Mikaella dress and I saw pictures of someone else in it and the dress looked nothing like the ad..very disappointing!! Maybe it was just the placae they bought the dress at, but I definitely will try everything on and not go by ads

You know what I found most misleading was the colour.  The ad photos just give many of the dresses a different dimension of colour and when I went to see a few dresses, the details just didn't pop as I expected.

They should sell dressses using ads with "real" women. I mean c'mon we don't need to see a model wearing a pretty dress in order to buy it. We'll buy it all on our own depending on our individual taste.  

Yes, with just about everything.

(Sidebar from upthread: I tried on somewhat similar Maggie and Impression dresses and picked the Impression.  It just did better things for me!)

@catlady: Definitely! Color is another thing! If I don't wear white and i mean the brightest white on Earth, my mother and the rest of the family would hunt me down! With some of the dresses online you can't tell whether it's white or a bit beige or cream or some unknown color ha

@parfait: that's exactly why I don't buy clothing online..I don't know how people do it!! I'm very skinny and I hate going to the store to try on jeans! I literally will be there for an hour or two trying things on and come out with one pair of jeans! I've seen so many gorgeous dresses online, but I'm sure if I tried them on they would look horrible on me ha

@arizonabride: I totally agree!! I've been so disillusioned..I hate jean shopping I get so frustrated that I'm just like whatever I'll wear sweats in the winter and not go out anywhere hah..and the photoshopping needs to stop..I want to see the dress not the model

It's terribly!! I mean c'mon no wonder there are so many women niptucking (is that a real word sorry my vocabulary is off today) this and that. If you believe in plastic surgery cool that's your thing, but I feel bad for young girls growing up today. I guess we just have to accept that's life and go out there and try on 3000 dresses without looking at ads. Ads are good in the sense that you get a general idea of what you may like.

I think it works both ways. I've seen many dresses that look much better on a regular bride-to-be than the very slender model who is usually hunched over and usually her arm is in an odd position in the picture in such a way to make her look even thinner.