A Lead on a Dress

[noirem]

I don't like the idea of buying a dress that I can never wear again and in the modern world a white evening gown is a wedding dress. On the other hand, in my current life, it's not exactly like opportunities to wear a non-white evening gown are knocking the door down. Should I find myself attending a formal function, I have the dress I wore as Miss

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[yochannah]

White, then dye?

[yochannah]

in case you get any weird notifications, I made a comment with an account I didn't mean to, then deleted it, then made the same comment with the RIGHT commenting account :/ sorry....

[noirem]

I wondered. That was a bit odd :o)

Very few places will dye a wedding dress for you for fear of ruining it, even with assurances that you won't hold it against them. Also, with the whole "no opportunity to wear it again" thing it's less of an issue.

I can talk with my dressmaker about the practical concerns (is the fabric dye resistant? what about the thread? the trim? how hard is it to get the whole dress into a vat of dye?) but I'm guessing she will A. be horrified and B. think it an unwise idea.

[yochannah]

reminds me slightly of a story I overheard where the dress was drycleaned post-weding, melted off the fake hand added pearls completely - and so the bride bought more pearls and sewed em on again!! Seems excessive effort for a one time use item that's already BEEN used.

[noirem]

really. If she was going to go to all that effort she should've just sewn them on properly in the first place! A lot of people hope their daughter will wear their dress some day - but not many people seem to wear their mother's dress. The wedding magazines in the States are full of humidity-controlled cabinets to display your wedding gown in your house.

[yochannah]

*jawdrop*

[noirem]

They're as insanely expensive as you'd think so I'm guessing they're aimed at the .01% of the population for whom having "more money than sense" could still allow for mensa members.

[noirem]

:o) Yeah, a winter getting married in summer probably wasn't the best idea I've ever had. I was meant to rock the Dr Zhivago look.

[brianamj]

I had that thought about mine.. then I realized that any daughter I have will tower over me and wouldn't fit into the dress at all. I never did get it cleaned after the wedding, and it's hanging in my front closet.

[noirem]

Doesn't change the fact that the dress is still white. And that's not so much a second use, as a more practical approach to the rest of the same day. I'm really not worried about the single use aspect.