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I cant help you out here as i am a davids bridal girl... but those dresses are beautiful
Hey meliss! i had to check out this elusive "dream dress" that you mentioned on the other thread. :)
Yes, you can pouf out a mermaid. I did this with my Watters Dress. I had the seamstress add extra crinoline to the inside of the skirt. It poufed out the dress a lot. I was going to take it a step further and pouf it out even more by wearing an additional crinoline under the dress. I bought it from David's Bridal (this was the only place that I could find in oc that sells them in the store). I didn't end up wearing it because I changed my mind at the last second. It can be done!!!! :)
they have mermaid crinolines... i found this in my ebay search...
Thank you, I wish I knew this before! Maybe I wouldn't have eliminated a lot of the dresses I did. I saw you had a thread about poofy mermaids ala Melanie Trump's dress. We must be on the same wavelength, lol. Btw which seamstress in OC did you use?
Also saw pics of your dress...and yowza. Is this you: http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/anyone-converted-their-dress-from-a-zipper-to-a-corset-were-you-happy ? I posted somewhere that I'm not a fan of the Torreon after trying it on, now I have to eat my words. Never saw it look that good before.
The whole trick to getting the look you want is where the pouf starts. Most mermaids start at the lower hip or below. If you can get the pouf to start higher on your hip you are going to get a fuller skirt. If you have room to play with in the length, this can be done easily.
On a mermaid dress the skirt isn't the longest part of the dress, the bodice is. To get a full skirt you need it to start higher so you lift the dress (imagine pulling the top of the dress higher towards your neck. Get it to where you want the pouf to start and then you can adjust the fit. If the bust area is too high on you, you can have the seamstress take some out to make it lower.
Does that make sense? I'll try to post some pics later to demonstrate. It feels really hard to explain.
My dress is a lace slim A-line so it looks more mermaid and I tried a mermaid crinoline with it, it tightens up your hips and tummy and poofs out the bottom. It didn't look right with my dress, but definitely try it out.
The problem with slip on mermaid crinolines is that most mermaid dresses are pretty form fitting and they will show underneath in lumps and bumps. My alterations lady sewed a crinoline in, and lined it with silk so it wouldn't rub my legs raw.
Wow those two dresses don't even look them same, no wonder it was haunting you!
My seamstress built a crinolineinto my dress to give it more pouf :) It's a great lightweight, slim and cheap option!
Yeah, I'd love to see some photos with built-in crinoline if anyone has them. When it's sewn in, do the lumps and bumps not show?
For a short girl like me the bottom of the bodice hits way below the hips so that was my biggest problem with the mermaids...The dress flares out way lower than I like and not much room for poof. But it seems like the girl in my photos - or rather her seamstress - has somehow managed. I never thought pulling the dress up and having the chest taken in, that sounds difficult to me but of course I know nothing about sewing!
@meliss - nope, they don't show! They sew it in just to the bottom of the dress, so it doesn't come up to your abdomen or on your legs. But if you get one sewn in, just make sure they put some kind of lining between the crinoline and your legs, or it will rub your legs raw. I'll try to find a pic of mine...
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Ok that title sounds weird but I don't know how to word it better :) I had a photo of this one dress when I was shopping and searched high and low to find something similar to no avail. It seemed like all the really pretty lace dresses that I liked were more of a mermaid or sheath style, and I wanted more of a fitted top/poofy skirt like my photo. Still this dress kept haunting me..until I found more photos of the same girl, figured out the designer, and found what I think is the original dress. The original looks nothing like what she's wearing, no wonder it didn't exist! Now I feel stupid and am curious. Can a mermaid dress be altered to look like this, or do you just wear a crinoline under it? Wouldn't the crinoline look weird under the slim skirt?
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