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Ok chicks, anyone with me on this one? It's really easy to spot a dress on the web, all glossied up and gorgeous with the most amazing photoshop work done, on a stunning lass, and then try it on and find out it looks very different.
Sometimes it's actually waaaaay more enchanting on you, but sometimes it's a 'yeah, let's try the next one on'.
I saw this thread by Brooke; http://brookeanderik.googlepages.com/thebride and was inspired by her fresh approach to compare the photos of her and the dress, it felt like the industry was getting made a little bit more transparent one post at a time :)
Anyway! I'm wondering if anyone else wants to get on board, do you have a photo of you in the dress and of the promo shot for the dress, did they compare favorably? Were you pretty satisfied with what you got? Or, even further, did you order your dressed based 100% on the promo shot? Did you receive what you expected? Tell all!
I'll bite! I actually don't mind this one although in most of the other dresses it would have been a he** no! But the one also happens to be MY DRESS! So i love it on :-)
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My dress is so BLAH on the model. Nothing special. I would have overlooked it. In fact, the lady at the store had to convince me to try it on cuz it was so blah on the rack to! But, it came to life once it was on =].
Needles to say, I'm much curvier than the model =]
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@ej: i love seeing pix from your wedding day!! you glowed and your smile was infectious!!
@brasty:i love the beaded portion of your dress (and i'm usually not a fan of beading!)
What a fun idea! Here's mine:
(not sure why the model photo is showing up so small...I can't get it any bigger, haha)
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Here is the model.....
and on me..... (yep just a few more curves going on here, lol)
I think it depends on the model. The first time I saw my dress on the model from the designer's ad, I wasn't all that impressed. She's so tall and sickly thin...ew.
But then I saw a photo shoot in Elegant Brides magazine, where my dress on the model was absolutely stunning! I fell mady in love with it when I saw this picture.
But whereas she's tall and super thin and graceful, I'm short with curves and tend to fall down a lot. :) I figured there was no way in the world that this dress would ever look good on me, without me being at least 6 foot tall. However, I think it worked for me. I still don't know if I look as beautiful as this model, but I did alright. :)
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Ok for real everyone, you all look so much better than the models in the dresses. Way to go!
Everyone looks so much better than the models :o) I think curves work better in most of these dresses!
I don't have a picture of myself in my dress on my work computer, but I am definitely curvier than the model and I think the dress looks much better!
Wow! I'm amazed at how much better the dresses look on real people/ y'all... it's not even comparable! You girls look amazing!
Curves so work better in these dresses. I HATED my dress on the model. and it made me question whether or not I wanted it anymore. then Id look at myself in it and be ok again :) I guess in retrospect it doesnt look THAT bad on the model...maybe its her collarbones jutting out??
@ missomally I still drool over your dress. Please never sell that, save it for a daughter or soemthing!
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It seems like most of the wedding gowns out there are MADE for curvier real women, so you would think they would have more "REAL" looking women model them???? I know, I didn't really like mine on the model as much as I like it on me! I just seem to fill it out more or something...maybe someday they'll have more realistic models but who knows! Seriously ladies, I have to say we ALL look better in these dresses than the models!
Such a great idea--it's always bothered me that the models they use to sell wedding dresses were all "models." I think they should have a variation of shapes and sizes as far as models go.
So the first one is the model, and I would never have picked this dress out for me, but it worked once I tried it on
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wow the models really do those dresses no justice. you guys looked awesome in them however
My dress looks absolutely TERRIBLE in the model pictures.
Seriously. Just terrible.
On me, I think it looks better.
I agree with MzThrowBac2B; everyone looks way better in their wedding dress then the models look in it! i think the wedding industry really needs to start using real women with real curves, their stuff would look waaaaay better!
@ejsy48- OMG you look stunning in that dress! Love it! Who makes that dress?
I thought models sell the dress. But sometimes they do not do the dress justice. Here's the model photo of my dress and a pic of me in my dress.
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I think more times than not the 'real' people in dresses look so much better than the models. I think a lot of times it has to do with the aura of the person in the dress. For the 'real' woman, this dress means something so special to them, but for the model they're like "yeah, whatever" and they have no life in their eyes.
Seriously, I don't know how they even manage to market and successfully sell bride's dresses using their size 0 models. I think women would be more like, "omg it looks AWESOME on that girl (a regular size girl)" and then be inclined to go try it on. I feel like dress ads are stupid--i never got a real "feel" for the dress, so you're just like "oh i like this detail" but it doesn't mean anything until you try it on!
@rabbit, thanks! It is Maggie Sottero's Irina. I got it off the rack for $400 with NO alterations. I'm still pretty excited about my frugal expenditure.
On another 'model' tangent, the industry needs to drop the size 00 standard and bump it up to at LEAST a size 6. It'd be better for them in regards to selling their stuff to us! I"m always wanting to buy stuff I see in Self and Women's Fitness b/c the models, while skinny, are shapely with muscles. I get if the industry wants "slender" models, but while some (very few) women can pull off a 00, most models aren't naturally that waif-like and therefore look half-starved. Granted, I acknowledge some women have a very slender bone frame and are naturally that slender and don't look like they need a sammich. BTW, Glamour did a big spread on "plus size models" of size 12's and 14's. It's nice to see women with some real shapes, curves, and even a little squish on them gracing a magazine and bearing all. It reminds me of the Venus paintings =]. End rant
I think I win for worst model pose... If I hadn't seen my dress in person first I never would have looked twice....
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That's a bad pic of me... this might show some more detail...
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Here is mine. I wish I had pics of the right dress in the right size :-( But I wont have those for a while since the dress was not right when I picked it up and now they need to order a new one. Here is the sample on me vs the model
Model:
Me:
sskati-the dress looks way more right on you than the model! Whats up with the way it sticks out by her armpit??? Your dress looks beautiful on you whether its the right size or not! I'd have to say WAY WAY better than the model, I wouldn't even think to look at the dress after seeing her!
Here is a picture of me in my Melissa Sweet dress and the model. Personally I think the model looks better but the dress I tried on did not fit in the back and I'm hoping to lose some weight before the wedding! (who doesnt right??)
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Wow- all these dresses look so much better on real people than the models! The models are just shapeless bean poles, where all the Bees look like fabulous beautiful women.
@jenirae- that model looks scary thin!!
This is a great post! I unfortunately don't have pics of me at my work computer to share
Oh I'll play!! I would NEVER have picked my dress if I saw the model...I looked right over it. But my sales consultant brought it to me and it's perfect!
I can honestly say that all these dresses look SO much better on YOU GUYS than the models!!!! Especially KellyV- yours is one of my favorite styles and I think the model ruins it... but you bring it to life!
ejs4y8 I totally agree... I did an online search on the website of the salon I went to and TOTALLY bypassed my dress. When i tried it on I KNEW it was it!.
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I love this thread! Everyone looks a million times better in their dress than the model did!
oooh, this is a great post...keep them coming.
I agree, you all look better than the models in the photos!
Here's mine
model:
me (sorry it's so wrinkled. I had to special order the size and I'm not a fan of pictures):
@gidget: i know the store you're in!! were you near the mall off of gallatin road?! (forgive me it's been about 5 or 6 years since i have been to nashville... The River something mall?
You all look better in the dresses than the models do. Congrats I hope to find a prefect dress sometime soon.
Heres mine! My dress definitely would not have been as poofy without the crinoline underneath which I found out had to be under every models dress to get it to look so amazing.
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I only have one crappy cell phone pic of the dress on me so far, but here it is...
on the model:
and on me:
I like this post-
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@sage: i think you are smaller than the model!! and you look ten times better!!
@lilmisspriss: your pix are so good that i got confused for a sec on which was the model and which the real person!!! i loved you dress...
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