(Closed) What sort of train do you think this is?

posted 6 years ago in Dress
  • poll: What would you call this train?
    Cathedral : (18 votes)
    78 %
    Chapel : (2 votes)
    9 %
    Other : (3 votes)
    13 %

    23 votes

    • Post # 1
    Member
    5009 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: April 2012

    I’m trying to decide whether my train is better described as cathedral or chapel. I know it doesn’t really matter but I wonder.

    Post # 3
    Member
    9916 posts
    Buzzing Beekeeper
    • Wedding: June 2013

    It looks like the TGV.

    Post # 4
    Member
    5009 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: April 2012

    @peachacid:  ðŸ˜€ Not Thomas the Tank Engine?

    Guess who’s bored today?

     

    (The answer is me.)

    Post # 5
    Member
    5423 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: November 2012

    I’d say cathedral.

    Post # 6
    Member
    5009 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: April 2012

    I think I’d just convinced myself that it didn’t look long enough to be called a cathedral train even though it was 9 feet from the waist.

    Post # 7
    Member
    1684 posts
    Bumble bee
    • Wedding: October 2011

    Chapel Length Train:  A chapel train is generally 1 1/3 yards or 4 feet from the waistline. 

    Semi-Cathedral Length Train: A semi-cathedral is about half way between a chapel and cathedral length. Perfect for a semi-formal or formal wedding gown.

    Cathedral Length Train: A cathedral train is generally 2 1/2 yards or 7 1/2 feet from the waistline.

    Royal Train:  Also called a Monarch train, this train generally falls 9 ft from the waist line and is only used for the most formal wedding.

    so you had a royal train.

     

    Post # 8
    Member
    14494 posts
    Honey Beekeeper
    • Wedding: June 2011

    It is inbetween two lengths:

    Cathedral Train – extends past 6 to 8 feet

    Royal Cathedral Train – extends 10 feet or more

     

    That dress is so freaking pretty, I loved watching the process of it getting made.

    Post # 9
    Member
    5009 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: April 2012

    I think it’s just because it was theoretically the same length as Kate Middleton’s but I’m sure it looks shorter.

    Post # 10
    Member
    5009 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: April 2012

    I really wish I’d got some better pictures my dress from behind. Even in the post-wedding shoot I didn’t get one that really showed off the scale of it. Maybe I should do another one with a female photographer who gets my dress obsession.

    Post # 11
    Member
    6256 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: March 2014

    Did you use a hoop skirt, or a crinoline? If crinoline, where did you get it?

    Post # 12
    Member
    5009 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: April 2012

    @EffieTrinket:  A crinoline is a hoop skirt, isn’t it? My dressmaker hand-made an 1860s-style crinoline with about 15 hoops.

    Post # 13
    Member
    6256 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: March 2014

    I think a crinoline is just layers of tulle and cloth, but a hoop skirt relies on boning (the “hoops”) to make it poof out. But someone please correct me if I’m wrong!

     

    Post # 14
    Member
    5009 posts
    Bee Keeper
    • Wedding: April 2012

    @EffieTrinket:  It must be one of these American English things. Historically, a crinoline was a stiffened hoop skirt but it must have changed meaning in the States. I’d call that a net petticoat.

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