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Your dress is beutiful. It doesn't look sloppy if looks like you need to have it fitted to you just a little bit. Before you stress out about it you should bring it to someone to have an alteration consultation. It really does not look that much different from the sample gown.
Girl, you don't look wide. You look fabulous and curvy. I don't think it looks sloppy or mermaid--definitely fit and flare. I can barely tell a difference between the two. Good luck!
I think you are overanalyzing. The point of flare on the skirt does not seem that different. I was expecting to see a full mermaid, and I would definitely call yours modified or trumpet. As for the fit, that's a matter of alterations.
Maybe a crinoline under the very bottom part would help flare it out a bit more?
I had a very similar situation with the sample fitting me so much better than my actual dress. I just couldnt stand to stress about it anymore so I just took my dress in to my local seamstress (not where I would have the real alterations done) to just get an opinion and idea of what she could do. She ended up pinning the dress a little and talked me over what could be done. I left feeling so much better about my dress. Alterations can make your dress into exactly what you want. I say take her in to a seamstress and see what she can do.
I think it looks great and fits you perfectly. You have nothing to worry about!
Honestly, you look great in that dress. When I look at it, I think elegant.
You could try and add a bit of "poof" at the bottom with some type of crinoline, but either way, the dress looks great.
I think it's beautiful! Maybe needs to be a little more cinched at the waist but it is definitely beautiful on you.
It may be just the lighting in the picture, but in the first one it looks like you have a belt or strip of material that is right under your bust. If you arn't wearing a belt, then one of the folds is lying perfectly horizontal.
In your bottom pictures, you no longer have that horizontal lay under the bust.
I do think that the apperance of a belt or by laying the material straight across in the first picture, makes your waist look smaller (think about when you wear a shirt that cinches right under the boobs and then lays flat across your belly (gives the look of bigger boobs, smaller waist, flatter tummy, same effect.)
If you can't fold the material to lay like your sample, perhaps try a belt just to see if you achieve the look you had in your mind initially.
Oh, I like your actual dress more than the sample! I think it looks great, but you have to love it.
I agree with PPs. I see little difference in the sample and actual gown. Both look stunning on you!
I love it on you! I can see what you mean about it looking sloppy, it just think its exactly what you said, it wasn't clamped tightly like the sample. Once altered it should fit exactly like the picture you love. Def talk to the seamstress but I think the dress is so beautiful and looks perfect on you!
agree with all PPs...dont see a bit of difference and its looks goregous!
Honestly, the dress looks exactly the same to me. And you DO NOT look wide. You look gorgeous!
Yeah, I keep going back and forth between the pictures and honestly I don't see much of a difference. I agree that maybe you should take it in for an alterations consult and see if maybe a little tweaking can give you what you're looking for.
By the way, you look great in that dress!
It looks gorgeous, just needs a steaming and alterations! You do not look wide at all!
That dress is beautiful on you and with minimal alterations it'll make you look as va-va-voom as you did in the sample. :)
Thank you for your comments. I am hoping that it is only an alterations issue, but concerned still that the lack of fabric (especially on the back) is not as flowy on the bottom any more, and instead more like a “tail”. Does that make sense? I would definitely plan to wear this dress with a beaded sash under the bust for some extra definition (in the original photo, it is just the lighting but I totally get what you mean!!) I need to make a decision on this soon, in case I want to order a different dress and have it come in time for the wedding/alterations, so I will take it to a seamstress and see if she can work her “magic”. Oh, and maybe drop a couple of pounds so the “bum area” doesn’t stick out that much! (Definitely something that is different about the dress from the sample!) Thanks again!!
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Hi ladies,
I’m hoping that someone can help me with my little dress dilemma, since it’s been an ongoing issue for me for several months now.
I purchased an Ella Rosa BE123 gown back in November, but I felt that maybe I made a rash decision and wondered whether another gown, an Allure, was better suited for me (you can follow that drama here).
I was hoping that, if I stopped looking at photos of the dress and analyzing every little detail, that it would come in to the bridal salon, I would put it on, and looooove it.
However, that did not happen. When I put the dress on yesterday, I didn’t think it was flattering at all (feel it makes me look wide), and I think the reason is that the samples I tried were a size 10-12, and had more “extra fabric” on them.
So, a gown that, in the larger sample, seemed to be a “fit & flare” style to me, now, in a size 8, feels more like a mermaid.
In addition, the gown I picked up just doesn’t have that same “oomph” as I can see in the photos of the sample and just seems shapeless and blah (could this be because it is too large for me and not fitted enough? The samples were big, but clamped really tightly in the back.)
If I can get this dress (which is in my house now!) to look like the photos of the sample I tried, I might actually like it, and save myself the hassle of selling it and looking for a new dress (the Allure is more $$).
I’m including photos of the samples vs. my dress. If you have any advice, please share?
This whole thing is really stressful, and I am definitely not the kind of girl that ever stressed out over clothes.
Photos of the sample dress:
Photos of my dress: (seems a lot more mermaid in the back and more sloppy??)