Wedding guest dresses

lemmno

Does anyone else worry about having the same dress as someone else?! I personally don't buy anything from coast, Karen Millen, Ted Baker or Virgos Lounge as I'm always thinking someone else will have it! Am I being weird?! I'd love to just walk into a shop and buy a dress and not worry about it!! Where does everyone else shop? Do they shop at the above and just chance it?! I'm looking for dresses and I've seen lots at the above but should I just avoid those brands altogether!? There should be an app for this!! 😄

retro:electro

If I see a dress I like then I buy it. I don't worry that someone will have the same one as me and if they did Id see the funny side of it. Life is too short to be worrying about stuff like that.

Stheno

If you find something you really like I'd go ahead it's hard enough to find something

chanelfreak

Even if someone ends up wearing the same dress as you, chances are that the two of you would have styled it differently (different shoes, bag, jewelry, hair. etc), so then it's not as much of an issue.

lemmno

Anna I agree with you life is too short, and I'm not saying I have sleepless nights over these things but it royally sucks to walk in to a room and see someone else in your dress!

lemmno

I was at a wedding last year and there were 3 girls in the same dress, two had it in pink and one had it in navy. I guess when there's over 300 guests chances are someone will be wearing the same thing!

cactusgal

This kind of thing wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Agree with Anna that life is too short to be concerned with stuff like that, but everyone is different.

dee_mc

I was at a wedding last year where three girls wore the same (very distinctive) Virgo's Lounge dress, and their shoes were near identical too! They posed for pics together and had the craic about it. I'd like to think I'd do the same if I was in their situation! Same as above, if I like a dress I'm going to go for it and to hell with the consequences!

lemmno

Virgos lounge ain't plain that's for sure! If someone else is wearing it, everyone's gonna notice it! I'd be the same I reckon, I'd laugh it off, its other people who make a big deal of it I think. Like when I saw the 3 matching at the wedding I don't think they would have minded too much to be honest, it's the idiots who made the oh did ye want to be bridesmaids etc etc comments who made a bigger deal of it than needed! I'm gonna just buy the damn dress and if someone has it who cares (or I could have another back up dress in the car...joke!!!)

Day Lewin

I was once at a wedding where someone else had the exact same outfit, quite a distinctive colour too.

We both looked smashing: we stood and grinned at each other and high-fived!

Some of us have great taste, ;-p

kickthecan

I was at a wedding last year and the brides best 2 friends and 3 sisters all picked the same dress. It was so funny. Such a coincidence

meeeeh

Wouldn't bother me. I don't like VL and Coast also wouldn't be on top of my list either so that eliminates 50% of the chance anyway.

lemmno

Most of the chances lie in Karen millen and Ted baker I think,coast seems to have gotten unpopular again

Spanish Eyes

I'd take it as a compliment that I have such good taste that someone else wants to copy me....

tradhead

My sister was at a wedding recently where a fellow guest was panicking on the way down as she'd forgotten her "back-up dress" in case this happened.

What. The. Flip. :eek:

Sunny Dayz

I have bought dresses for weddings in TK Maxx - the chances of someone wearing the same dress are slim. Also I tend to know WELL in advance that I'm going to be invited to a wedding so nearly as soon as they have set the date I get a dress, so by the time the wedding comes around the dress probably won't be in the shops anymore and chances of someone wearing it reduce. I sometimes wedding guest dress shop in the sales. I also find that if you wear an older dress there is less chance of someone wearing the same one as opposed to wearing something brand new and still in the shops.

saggycaggy

At my wedding a young guest wore the same outfit as my Mother in Law!!

Both bought their outfits boutiques in different parts of the country. The wedding was abroad so no chance of popping home to get changed.


My Mother in Law made light of it and toasted the friend on her great taste during her speech.

meeeeh

I was in my homecountry visiting and got a blazer in my old neighbours boutique. It was very well fitting and they told me that is made especially for them in Italy (yeah right). Then I came back home and exactly the same "made in Italy" blazer was in the local shop here. Now the only work done on blazers in Italy was offloading the container from China in Trieste.

Anyway a lot of independent boutiques stock the same brands anyway but now they don't even bother getting their own cheap stuff from China and use wholesalers that also stock a lot of market stalls around continental Europe. I suspect there is more chance someone will show up in the same dress if you buy it in independent shop than in one of the chains.

lemmno

I tend to buy early too if I can. Although it doesn't always work out well as lots of other people do that now too and the outlets have them on their rails up to a year later!
At my debs one of my friends was wearing the same dress as the teacher.....there was a 20 year age gap at least.
A friend of mine gets loads in tkmaxx. I never see anything in there!

Lia_lia

I couldn't care less if someone had the same outfit as me, would be funny!

lemmno

It would be funny, AND I'd laugh about it...but I'd rather it didn't happen!

Stheno

lemmno wrote: »

It would be funny, AND I'd laugh about it...but I'd rather it didn't happen!

Being paranoid that I don't look great anytime due to an overbearing and judgemental mother, I'd convince myself the other peron looked better and I looked like a holy show

Thankfully due to learning color matching, I've learned to build outfits that are unusual and unlikely to be repeated, and rely on that