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My dress has a lace up back.  But the ties are about 20 feet long and when it's all laced up they hang down in a goofy bow/knot.  They're really thin and (as my alterations lady put it) when it's laced i look like i have a tail.

Anybody else have this problem, or dealt with it in a simple way?

here's the dress  http://www.maggiesottero.com/dress.aspx?keywordText=sandrina&keywordType=any&page=0&pageSize=8&style=J1018

Thanks :)

My gown was a Maggie too, and i had the same problem!   The easiest (and best) solution IMHO is to just have your alterations lady trim off the excess ends...she'll be able to re-stitch the 'new' ends so you'll never be able to tell.  Just make sure that you've got the dress completely laced when she does it!  --ie not just every other hole or something.  Should be a really simple alteration for them to do :-)

 The shop I bought my gown at said that they do that in case brides want to add spaghetti straps to their gown or something, there's that extra length to play around with.

so im not the only one! 

that's simple enough i think i could do it myself!  hah, why didn't i just think of that?  :)

thanks ;)

Well you do still want to have length at the end....like you said, enough to be able to loosen it and take it off...but not so long that you have a huge droopy bow.  Hold on a sec and I'll see if I can find a picture of the back of me in my gown, close-up...

Hmm ok well it seems I can't find any that really show the completed ties.  But basically, I had them shortened to a length so that when tied there was a fairly short droopy bow, but not long enough to be a distraction.  IMHO, I actually think it would look rather weird if there weren't any ties at all...it would look like the lacing itself was fake or something.

 Sorry I coudln't have been of more help!
 

I can't see a close up of your dress but my sister-in-law wore a different Maggie Sottero and we were able to tuck the "extra length" into the dress.  Will that work w/ yours too?

I had a Maggie dress as well - for the ceremony I actually left the long ties out (they weren't longer than my dress, though).  When it was bustled for the reception, the bow was drawn to be VERY droopy (to make the ends shorter) and the whole thing was tucked into the dress.

thanks for all the advice ladies!

 i think i'm going to tuck.  if the dress were fuller i'd trim them and embelish, but it's fairly form fitting and i think tucking will look better

gracias :)