Bridesmaid... Me?
So it turns out that my trip home put one more thing on my list of 'things to do'.
As I've always lived fairly far away from my friends, the option of being a 'bridesmaid' has been a little difficult. How on earth do you get fitted for a dress?
Funny enough, my going home last weekend managed to give both my brother and sister-in-law-to-be an epiphany. 'Look she's here, she can get fitted!'
Argh. Anyone who has ever been shopping with me knows I hate dress shopping. Fortunately, the dress was already chosen so all I had to do was try it on and get measured. The dress I tried on was the black version. The dress itself is some sort of earth-tone green colour. Anyway, they only had the dress in one size which I tried. Fit perfectly. Unfortunately she insisted on still taking the measurements.
So as long as I don't gain weight I will be fine.
However, the sizing on the dresses is enough to make some women freak out. I had to try on a size 12. 'Scuse me. But I'm not a size 12 in England even on a bad day and they have 'normal' sizes over here. Most girls I know would be a size 8-10, unlike the size 6 we seem to wear over in North America. But a 12? Okay someone has got a fairly warped sense of fitting.
The funniest thing is one bridesmaid coming from Alberta insists she wears a size 4 and she's got the same size waist as I do. Heh. I hope B manages to sort her out and gets her to order the right dress size. I don't think they can take a dress out that much.
As I've always lived fairly far away from my friends, the option of being a 'bridesmaid' has been a little difficult. How on earth do you get fitted for a dress?
Funny enough, my going home last weekend managed to give both my brother and sister-in-law-to-be an epiphany. 'Look she's here, she can get fitted!'
Argh. Anyone who has ever been shopping with me knows I hate dress shopping. Fortunately, the dress was already chosen so all I had to do was try it on and get measured. The dress I tried on was the black version. The dress itself is some sort of earth-tone green colour. Anyway, they only had the dress in one size which I tried. Fit perfectly. Unfortunately she insisted on still taking the measurements.
So as long as I don't gain weight I will be fine.
However, the sizing on the dresses is enough to make some women freak out. I had to try on a size 12. 'Scuse me. But I'm not a size 12 in England even on a bad day and they have 'normal' sizes over here. Most girls I know would be a size 8-10, unlike the size 6 we seem to wear over in North America. But a 12? Okay someone has got a fairly warped sense of fitting.
The funniest thing is one bridesmaid coming from Alberta insists she wears a size 4 and she's got the same size waist as I do. Heh. I hope B manages to sort her out and gets her to order the right dress size. I don't think they can take a dress out that much.