# Strapless wedding dresses-- yea or nay? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216 "2013-10-14T15:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/81 "2013-10-25T04:12:57Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > That is a beautiful dress (and you’re not so bad yourself, either, wink wink). 🙂 > [@Yllaria](#): > > Yes. You and the dress look wonderful. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Gorgeous! 🙂 Thanks. 🙂 I was really happy with the dress! It was comfortable AND I felt pretty in it - win-win. Going with a seamstress is something I’d recommend to any bride who is having difficulty finding what they want in a reasonable price range. The dresses that I fell in love with were all in the 2000-4000 USD price range. Getting it made only cost a fraction of that. **Little Bird** I think you look lovely in your dress. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/82 "2013-10-25T19:58:32Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I thought of this thread when I saw pictures of [Kelly Clarkson’s wedding dress](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/kelly-clarkson-marries-brandon-blackstock-article-1.1491849). She got married yesterday in a beautiful dress. I was trying to figure out what I liked so much about it – it’s the long lace sleeves. I frickin’ love that dress. So much so that I wish I could get married again just so I could copy it. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/83 "2013-10-25T20:56:05Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > [Reminds me of this pic!](http://everythingfunny.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/anothergoodreasonto-not-have-your-bridesmaids-wear-strapless-dresses.jpg) Poor bridesmaids. > [@Zombie Whisperer](#): > > Oh dear! That looks so wrong! > [@Muffin](#): > > That looks so right! Agreed! And it reminds ME of an overheard remark by a mother at a reception wedding about a previous wedding reception she had attended. Her little daughter: :eek: Mommy, that woman has nothing on! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/84 "2013-10-25T21:00:58Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Like so many other things, it depends on the person and the dress. One can look positively modest in a strapless dress, or one can look completely inappropriate. … in a dress that covers everything up to the chin (anything of the “mermaid” type for example). ---
**Author:** ![Tante\_Dillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Tante\_Dillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tante_Dillie)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/85 "2013-10-26T04:31:55Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > I decided to get my dress made because all I could find around here were poofy, strapless concoctions that made me look short and fat. I wanted something that I felt comfortable in, and that I could walk around in without too much trouble. I was really happy with what the seamstress came up with. I showed her a photo of a dress I liked and she made one very similar to it, with a few adjustments. Here’s a [photo](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100198083221460&l=a286cac02a) of me wearing the dress. Hazel, you are _ **gorgeous** _! And so is your dress. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/86 "2013-10-27T21:07:15Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > Were those her engagement gift? This made me laugh so hard that people on the bus are staring at me. " Hey Ma, so do I go with the lace around the nippleautages, or is that tacky ? " :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/87 "2013-10-27T21:09:33Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > I decided to get my dress made because all I could find around here were poofy, strapless concoctions that made me look short and fat. I wanted something that I felt comfortable in, and that I could walk around in without too much trouble. I was really happy with what the seamstress came up with. I showed her a photo of a dress I liked and she made one very similar to it, with a few adjustments. Here’s a [photo](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100198083221460&l=a286cac02a) of me wearing the dress. The glow on your face was nicely enhanced by the dress on your corpus. What a happy bride !!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/88 "2013-10-27T23:20:21Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > if anything it symbolized that the bride’s father was rich enough to buy her a widely impractical dress which couldn’t even be cleaned & she’d never wear again. I’m told that although my paternal grandmother wore white she and my grandfather were poor(he was a young minister) She altered the dress so she could wear it as a Sunday dress, and it was considered too “showy” by the hard headed German Lutherans of her husbands’ congregation. Judgemental older women were the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216/89 "2013-10-27T23:39:54Z")
Gown-less wedding straps? … I mean– :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapless-wedding-dresses-yea-or-nay/671216.md?page=4)