(Closed) Hmm is this possible?

posted 6 years ago in Dress
Post # 1
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Newbee
  • Wedding: May 2012

I don’t know much about altering, but can a strapless dress (that is not backless) be made into a backless dress? LOL Hopefully that wasn’t confusing!!

Post # 3
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Bumble Beekeeper

It depends on how backless you are talking. If you mean totally backless…. not without lots of double-stick tape.

Post # 4
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Sugar bee
  • Wedding: October 2011

@BrittniAllen: Can you show us a photo of your gown and perhaps another photo of one similar to how you would like for it to look?

Post # 5
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Honey bee
  • Wedding: May 2012

… depends on the structure of the dress.

 

but do you just mean you want the back of the dress lower, so show more of your back?

Post # 6
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Helper bee
  • Wedding: June 2012

You would need a TON of boning put in, so that it could stay up on its own. Even after all the boning, you’d need to tape yourself into the dress as well. It would also be very difficult or possibly impossible (lol) to alter a dress to be low-backed, backless, depending on the structure of the dress already.

Post # 7
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Bee Keeper
  • Wedding: June 2010

please share a picture. That would help us 😀 Thanks!!

Post # 8
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Newbee
  • Wedding: May 2012

I don’t have a photo of what I would like it to look like, and most likely NOT completely backless. I’m just not sure I like the corset anymore and was wondering if I could change it. & I know if I did I would lose the details on the back. But I was jw!

Post # 9
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Honey bee
  • Wedding: May 2012

… that doesn’t look possible….

 

You can maybe change it to a zipper… but you’d lose the detail of the beading or would have to pay a heavfty fee for more beading/ detail.

Post # 10
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Bumble bee
  • Wedding: October 2012

If you buy a size up, you should be able to alter it in some way to have a deep V back or something, if that’s what you’re going for.  It shouldn’t be hard to remove the corset, the hard part will be getting it to stay up and hold its structure without it.

Post # 11
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Bee Keeper
  • Wedding: June 2010

@pinkfrog: great idea! I dont think it could be done with the current size she has on 😀

Post # 12
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Helper bee
  • Wedding: June 2012

Wow, with that much beading and pleats? I don’t think it’s worth the trouble. And it would be a lot of trouble.

Post # 13
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Bumble bee
  • Wedding: October 2012

@bestbuddies: Yeah definitely not with that size- it fits her perfectly, clearly, but I think the seamstress would need the extra wiggle room a size up would give to be able to keep the structure of the dress.  It *might* be possible to even with that size, depending on how the dress is constructed, but I can’t even begin to tell from a pic.

Post # 14
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Busy bee
  • Wedding: November 2010

You could have the modesty panel removed and leave the ribbon.  Then you’ll have the effect of backless, with some skin showing, but won’t lose the structure of the dress.

Post # 15
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Newbee
  • Wedding: May 2012

Well I ordered it a size bigger because my mother insisted that I gain weight before the wedding (she was the one paying, so I had to go with it)…so when I go to have it fitted/altered it will already need to be taken in. But taking out the corset?!? that sounds like my crack might be visible once that’s done, that might be tooooo deep of a V! haha But would adding smaller straps going across like this help? (I just randomly googled this). Or any other suggestions to changing up the corset without too much trouble?

 

 

Post # 16
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Newbee
  • Wedding: May 2012

@Vegas Pug: haha I have thought of that! Buttt I’m not really digging the corset with skin showing through! :/

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