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[katranna]

Why can't anyone dress Christina Hendricks properly? Is it really that hard? Does she herself have terrible taste, since they manage to dress her just fine on Mad Men? What is UP with that?

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[electricwitch]

The way those dresses ruck up at the waist really bothers me. Probably because this happens to me in ALL DRESSES EVER. Only she ought to hit whoever caused it over the head because it's soooo annoying when that happens.

[katranna]

Do you know what's the cause of that? It happens to me sometimes because (I think) my ribcage is too wide for the proportions of the dress, so that causes the fabric to gather and bunch below. But that shouldn't happen on dresses made to someone's measurements!

[electricwitch]

In my case it's either because the waist is too long or because the waist is too wide, or the narrowest part of the waist is at the wrong place. Because there is a very large difference between both the top part of my torso and the waist and the hip, once the waist is even a little too high or low everything goes wrong. Often it combines with being too large.

I'd say in your case it's probably a question of length of the waist or position rather than width, since your figure otherwise does not seem to have as big an extreme between top, waist and/or bottom as I do or, in this case, Christina does.

It definitely should not happen on tailor-mades! Her dress makers are probably too lazy or embarrassed to have to make a dress to the specifications of a body so obviously not the modern ideal.

[katranna]

Well in my case, I've decided my rib cage must be proportionally too wide because there are often dresses that fit me everywhere else but won't zip up over my ribcage, or that strain across the bust--and my bust is very moderate. I recently bought a bridesmaid dress, and I had to get a size 4 because a size 2 simply wouldn't zip up when it came to the ribcage level--but the size 4 was too big everywhere else, including the actual bust line (above the ribcage).

That said, I don't have a very narrow waist either, so maybe you're right, and it has to do with torso length and width issues rather than the ribcage. I guess maybe even the whole ribcage dilemma is because of waist position as you say, because you're right--when I look at myself in the mirror, I certainly don't think I'm too curvy. My torso looks pretty straight up-and-down to me. I really wish someone who knows about these things would measure me and explain what the issue is, because it's weird when clothes don't fit and I don't even know exactly why.

[electricwitch]

Oh it might be any combination of those things? You can always do some measurements and then measure a problem dress to see which it is, knowing about it does make it easier to pick something that has a more suitable cut.