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We had the same sort of problems when trying to find my mom a dress as well. She is short and petite, and none of the MOB dresses appealed to her, and the ones she did find that she liked weren't in the right color. We ended up ordering her a dress from the Alfred Angelo Bridesmaid collection (http://www.alfredangelo.com/Collections/ProductDisplay.aspx?productID=667899d9-c79c-45aa-a529-286a2ac27719&categoryID=772f03c9-de43-4942-bfa0-da77e21ebd65&pg=0). We will have to get the length altered, but she was quite happy with it when she tried it on in the store. It has optional spaghetti straps, and we also ordered one of the jacket options (seen in this pic: http://www.alfredangelo.com/Collections/ProductDisplay.aspx?productID=ca746209-d029-46c4-a0bc-16f0a015d8aa&categoryID=772f03c9-de43-4942-bfa0-da77e21ebd65&pg=0)
You would have to check with a bridal shop, but you might be cutting it close on ordering a dress like this. We were told that it could take 12-16 weeks for the dress to arrive. I don't know if your mom likes to shop (my mom sure does!) but check out the department stores around you and you might just find something that your mom would like. Before we ordered the dress for my mom, she had bought and returned a couple dresses she thought might be an option. Some of the stores have a good return policy, so you could always return the dress if you don't think it would be a good fit with your color scheme.
Hope this helps!
If you have Dillard's stores in your area, be sure to check there. They have a great petite section and my petite mom and sister have always had luck finding clothes for special occasions there. And David's Bridal actually has several very cute MOB dresses that you can buy right off the rack, including some petite sizes. That's where my mom ended up finding hers. Good luck!
The other option that you have is to get a dress made. Especially if it is something simple (I'm imagining some sort of a-line shift), you could get it made for not too much money.
I second dillards if you have one in your area and also check out Barrie Pace - http://www.barriepace.com they have nice dresses and you could always alter a normal size down to a petite. I think something like this could be nice for a pear shape b.c it's loose/flowy below. http://www.barriepace.com/bp/product.asp?catalog_name=BP_1&category_name=FW07_D9309_F_AUG_0016&parent_category=Outlet
Or even something short could look nice - Pesonally I'm not big on ordering bridesmaid dresses just b/c they are overpriced for sub-standard material, but if I had to order one it would definitley be from Siri..http://www.siriinc.com.
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My mother bought her dress at Saks and she's the same size as your mom. She's petite and a size 4 as well. I believe the dress she had was from Kay Unger.
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So my sister called me yesterday to say that her fiance's mom has gotten her dress for my sister's wedding, and we need to step it up on getting my mom one. The wedding is in May, so we are probably cutting it close on the ordering an "official" MOB dress from a store.
My mom is about 5'2" and a size 4-6P. She's fairly slight in build, and she has really narrow shoulders. She's not particularly conservative (she will wear sleveless or something a little low cut or low in the back), but she refuses to do anything strapless. Since she has narrow shoulders, all the cute MOB dresses with the matching jackets won't look right on her. (eg. http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/2967512?refsid=178320_3&refcat=0%7e2376776%7e2378685%7e2378694%7e2374388&SourceID=1&SlotID=1&origin=related) She's also really pear shaped, so it has to be something A-line, so a lot of the typical MOB dresses don't cut it.
The bridesmaids dresses are the pacific blue dresses from Ann Taylor, so we want something in the blue family.
I know the MOB dress is sometimes harder to find then a wedding dress even, so if any of you found something nice in the petite section that was long, blue, and built for the petite pear-shaped woman in her *ahem* late thirties, please share!!!
I've checked Nordstrom, Coldwater Creek, Macy's, Newport News, Chadwick's, Pennies, Saks, Neimans, Lord & Taylor...are there any big stores or catalogues I'm missing?
If you ordered a regular MOB dress from a bridal company, how did you feel about it/the experience in general? I've noticed a lot of the dresses only come in a few really drab colors, and the store's only order them in beige. Also, when you went to try them on, was it like trying on a sample-size bridesmaids dress or do they sometimes have actual sizes? One store I was at only seemed to have sample sizes of like, a 14, and my mother, being a woman of very little imagination, will have trouble picturing the dress on her in the right size/color.
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