Convertible bridesmaid dress

curtain_cottage

What do people think of the convertible (infinity) dress for use as a bridesmaid outfit, would the fabric be suitable - I love the different way you can wear them though. Anywhere in Cork area doing them?

lily09

curtain_cottage wrote: »

What do people think of the convertible (infinity) dress for use as a bridesmaid outfit, would the fabric be suitable - I love the different way you can wear them though. Anywhere in Cork area doing them?

I think it would be fab and tge girls could defo wear again. amity have these in the window. its on the street from patrick street to paul street, the one with cafe mexicana, sorry dont know street name am a blow in.

ck83

lily09 wrote: »

I think it would be fab and tge girls could defo wear again. amity have these in the window. its on the street from patrick street to paul street, the one with cafe mexicana, sorry dont know street name am a blow in.

I think it's French church street!
I think dessy do something similar... If you wanted to go down the line of buying online.

havana

This crowd do a version online http://www.alila.ie/

amdublin

I think co-ordinated but not exactly "matching" dresses are cool. Whether same material and colour, different styles. Or whether different colours.

I think us Irish really need to get away from this thing of putting a size 10 lady and a size 16 lady in the same dress. Or a 4ft 10 lady and 5ft 5 lady in the same dress.
Like jeez we're not dressing six year olds!

Millem

lily09 wrote: »

I think it would be fab and tge girls could defo wear again. amity have these in the window. its on the street from patrick street to paul street, the one with cafe mexicana, sorry dont know street name am a blow in.

I have looked into these dresses. There are a few brands on the market eg dessy, two birds. I havn't tried it on but i know of a bridal shop who have stopped stocking the dessy one as it was very bulky! bhs have a version of it which is by far the cheapest http://www.bhs.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CatalogNavigationSearchResultCmd?catalogId=34096&storeId=13077&langId=-1&viewAllFlag=false&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=522491&parent_categoryId=471109&beginIndex=1&pageSize=40

stargazer 68

I think they look great however the fabric would have me a bit concerned. If its stretchy type (as it looks) there is no way you would get me in one showing all my lumps and bumps!

tatli_lokma

I agree with Dovies - they seem to be stretchy type fabric, which I would imagine they have to be to be 'convertable'. In addition to the lumps and bumps issue, I can't imagine that this fabric can every look very expensive or high quality. Even in the photo shown they look a bit cheap looking. Sorry if that offends - I have just never seen a dress in this material that looked very expensive...it is pretty much the standard fabric for most dresses in the likes of New Look or Jane Norman or high street lower end chain type places. Nothing wrong with it for a dress for a night out, but not ideal for a wedding. Just my opinion. But maybe I'm totally misconceived on this and they actually look better in 'real life'.

Jerrica

I saw one version of these dresses at a wedding show in the RDS, the material is dreadfully poor quality - stretchy, clingy and very cheaper feeling and looking. But the price of the dress itself amazed me most, it was over €200 if I remember right. With the variation of dresses you can get on-line/ in store that are much higher quality I'd avoid them for the most part.

Toto Wolfcastle

All of the versions I've seen show off a good bit of your back no matter what style you choose to wear them in which wouldn't suit a lot of people.

pwurple

I think the fabric looks too cheap to be honest. And of these girls in the picture, maybe one looks like the dress suits her. The others look slightly uncomfortable to me, and like they are not wearing a bra, where maybe they should be. The blonde girl next to the bride, I can see side-boob. Awkward.

Millem

I have read really good reviews on the the bhs version online. Here are some pics on 'real' people I found on the Internet!

tatli_lokma

Millem wrote: »

I have read really good reviews on the the bhs version online. Here are some pics on 'real' people I found on the Internet!

the last picture of the black versions don't look too bad, but at the same time they don't look like they are headed to a wedding either, more like a girls night out!
as for the other pics...well a decent bra and a smaller trowel for the makeup wouldn't have gone astray. Those photos only confirm my opinion that the dresses look cheap. And the fair girl is by no means big, but her back does not look good in the photo.

Having another look and they also seem quite 'unfinished' looking. In particular I mean the part that you 'convert'. Whatever style you choose it is trailing at the back and looks very much just like what it is - a length of stretchy fabric tied around you.

These dresses aren't cheap either - I would say that if you want to dress your bridesmaids according to their shape, get dresses made for them or get dresses in complimentary colours.

I can also see arguments with some bridesmaids as to how they want to convert the dress and how you would like them to wear the dress. Some people do not know what suits them!

Gatica

until I read the last post I thought convertible dresses the OP was asking about were ones where you pick a style from a selection of style for a particular model of a dress and it's made to that spec.

Just to be clear, does that mean that convertible dresses can be altered by a girl at any stage? I can see how this could pose a problem and look "cheap" as the look mightn't be 100% right, no matter which conversion is used.

Maybe going in the direction of altering a dress to a style for-keeps is a good alternative?

tatli_lokma

Gatica wrote: »

Just to be clear, does that mean that convertible dresses can be altered by a girl at any stage? I can see how this could pose a problem and look "cheap" as the look mightn't be 100% right, no matter which conversion is used.

yep, that is it in a nutshell! these dresses are basically from the waist down (or from under the bust actually) a set style. The top half of the dress is basically unstructured, and for all the world is literally a few straps and a length of fabric which can be twisted and tied into various styles depending on what you want. Some dresses offer more versions than others. But basically they all have the capability to be made into various combinations and permutations.