- BrittniAllen
- 9 years ago
- 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!!
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!!
It depends on how backless you are talking. If you mean totally backless…. not without lots of double-stick tape.
@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?
… 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?
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.
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!
… 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.
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.
Wow, with that much beading and pleats? I don’t think it’s worth the trouble. And it would be a lot of trouble.
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.
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?
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