Sorry, just one more possible wedding dress before I resume regular posting on this blog!
What do you think of this one? I'm not super stoked on the rhinestones but I could make them work. I just think it's a cute dress and would look cute on me.
09 December 2007
07 November 2007
Help me decide, Part 2
A hearty THANK YOU to the folks who posted comments on my previous post - very helpful! But, eh, can I throw another dress into the mix?
I found this one completely by accident. I was perusing the Real Weddings page on the Watters website, and came across pics of bridesmaids from Erin's wedding.
See the woman on the far left? She is by no means zaftig but does have more padded features than the other ladies pictured. I think Wtoo #532 might do a zaftig chick justice. And yes, I would get it in floor length and perhaps in Sky Blue.
Likey?
I found this one completely by accident. I was perusing the Real Weddings page on the Watters website, and came across pics of bridesmaids from Erin's wedding.
See the woman on the far left? She is by no means zaftig but does have more padded features than the other ladies pictured. I think Wtoo #532 might do a zaftig chick justice. And yes, I would get it in floor length and perhaps in Sky Blue.
Likey?
19 October 2007
Help me decide
This is slightly off the topic, but I'm having one hell of a time trying to decide what wedding dress to wear. Want to help point me in the right direction?
First off, you should know that I'm not going to be a traditional bride. For almost my whole life, I've known that I want a dress that either has strong color accents on it, or is itself a color other than white or ivory. If the right dress was more lovely in white or ivory, I'd do it, but for now I'm really feeling like having a dress in color. I think I'd rather look like I was walking down the red carpet than down the aisle.
Also, please note that I will not be wearing a veil, but will have my freshly red longish hair down and curled with stephanotis blossoms dotted in it. (An idea totally ripped from the last scenes of "Wedding Crashers", Isla Fisher's hair.) And of course, most importantly, I'm a zaftig chick. It's hard to pick a dress when they're all shown on non-zaftig models.
Here are my top choices:
This one from Sydney's Closet in Periwinkle or Burgundy. (Note that color swatches on this website are about 1-2 shades darker than they are in person.) Periwinkle, which is close to one of the colors for the wedding, would be a take on a more traditionally light-colored dress but it's still a color and I love love love pretty much any shade of blue. Burgundy is strong and would be a statement. My mother will probably have a hissy, but it's my wedding and I'll be the scarlet woman if I want to.
This one, also from Sydney's Closet, in Capri or Heather. Capri is one of the most beautiful blues I've ever seen. Heather is just plain pretty, and I've always loved shades of purple.
And lastly, this one from Wtoo. No freakin clue what color because I haven't seen the color swatches in person yet.
Post a comment if you've got an opinion!
First off, you should know that I'm not going to be a traditional bride. For almost my whole life, I've known that I want a dress that either has strong color accents on it, or is itself a color other than white or ivory. If the right dress was more lovely in white or ivory, I'd do it, but for now I'm really feeling like having a dress in color. I think I'd rather look like I was walking down the red carpet than down the aisle.
Also, please note that I will not be wearing a veil, but will have my freshly red longish hair down and curled with stephanotis blossoms dotted in it. (An idea totally ripped from the last scenes of "Wedding Crashers", Isla Fisher's hair.) And of course, most importantly, I'm a zaftig chick. It's hard to pick a dress when they're all shown on non-zaftig models.
Here are my top choices:
This one from Sydney's Closet in Periwinkle or Burgundy. (Note that color swatches on this website are about 1-2 shades darker than they are in person.) Periwinkle, which is close to one of the colors for the wedding, would be a take on a more traditionally light-colored dress but it's still a color and I love love love pretty much any shade of blue. Burgundy is strong and would be a statement. My mother will probably have a hissy, but it's my wedding and I'll be the scarlet woman if I want to.
This one, also from Sydney's Closet, in Capri or Heather. Capri is one of the most beautiful blues I've ever seen. Heather is just plain pretty, and I've always loved shades of purple.
And lastly, this one from Wtoo. No freakin clue what color because I haven't seen the color swatches in person yet.
Post a comment if you've got an opinion!
12 October 2007
Kick-ass jeans
Lane Bryant may be cancelling their bridal line, starting with the dress I wanted to wear for my wedding next year (le sigh)... but I have to say I'm digging this Right Fit thing!
Firmly in Yellow territory [straight from waist to hip], LB's previous lines of jeans - which their marketing says was based on the Blue model [curvy from waist to hip] - never really fit me in the way that I'd hoped for. In fact, I do believe there are previous posts on this blog ranting about how jeans often look like riding jodphers on me.
(FYI - there is a third color/type. LB split the difference between Yellow and Blue, to create Red, which is moderately curvy from waist to hip.)
Right Fit Yellow's are so snugly fitting around my hips that at first I didn't know what to do with myself. After a couple years enduring quasi-jodphers, correctly fitting jeans looked downright weird on my body. You could even say... flattering. Seriously? Seriously! Gasp.
LB not only has their standard jean collection (Classic, Bootcut, Flare) in Right Fit, but also offers their universal work pant, the Houston. I got a pair in the mail yesterday and almost started to cry - in the good way. Do you know how many times I've put on work pants and started to cry tears of frustration and defeat? I don't need to mimic thin girls in their perfectly fitting, perfectly pressed, wide-leg trousers from Express, but I would rather die than show up to work in the equivalent of too short, pleated-waist, peg-legged rayon pants. I don't care if the tag says "has flared leg", there's something about my body that has always made work pants look peg-legged on me.
If you're wanting to buy Right Fit online because there are no LB stores in your neck of the woods, here are a few tips. Firstly, lengths are a little funky. I have the Petite Bootcut and Flare which both ran longer than past Petite models at LB. If you're generally halfway between a Petite and Average (like me!), go with the Petite and it'll be perfect. However, the Petite Houstons I bought were way shorter than any Petite jean or pant I've ever tried at LB. So, go with Average unless you usually have to get your Petites hemmed.
Second, and this isn't specific to LB or Right Fit, I find that Bootcut is now more Straight Leg, and Flare is like a fuller version of Bootcut. I put my Bootcuts on and, being a tried and true fan of Flares, really had to spend some time getting used to how they looked, especially with some of my tops and shoes. If you're a "true" Bootcut fan, I would recommend going for the Flare instead.
And lastly, I found that the fabrics between Bootcut and Flare were very different. Flare in Blue/Black Denim has a much thinner and stretchier texture, and I find them very comfy for moving around in. Bootcut in Dark Rinse Denim has a really lovely polished texture, so much so that they could be substituted for khakis at work. Sorry to say but I haven't investigated the lighter finishes since I'm always scouting for nicer denim for work purposes.
Go forth and conquer the denim world!
ps. Sorry for not writing for so long... I promise to post more often!
Firmly in Yellow territory [straight from waist to hip], LB's previous lines of jeans - which their marketing says was based on the Blue model [curvy from waist to hip] - never really fit me in the way that I'd hoped for. In fact, I do believe there are previous posts on this blog ranting about how jeans often look like riding jodphers on me.
(FYI - there is a third color/type. LB split the difference between Yellow and Blue, to create Red, which is moderately curvy from waist to hip.)
Right Fit Yellow's are so snugly fitting around my hips that at first I didn't know what to do with myself. After a couple years enduring quasi-jodphers, correctly fitting jeans looked downright weird on my body. You could even say... flattering. Seriously? Seriously! Gasp.
LB not only has their standard jean collection (Classic, Bootcut, Flare) in Right Fit, but also offers their universal work pant, the Houston. I got a pair in the mail yesterday and almost started to cry - in the good way. Do you know how many times I've put on work pants and started to cry tears of frustration and defeat? I don't need to mimic thin girls in their perfectly fitting, perfectly pressed, wide-leg trousers from Express, but I would rather die than show up to work in the equivalent of too short, pleated-waist, peg-legged rayon pants. I don't care if the tag says "has flared leg", there's something about my body that has always made work pants look peg-legged on me.
If you're wanting to buy Right Fit online because there are no LB stores in your neck of the woods, here are a few tips. Firstly, lengths are a little funky. I have the Petite Bootcut and Flare which both ran longer than past Petite models at LB. If you're generally halfway between a Petite and Average (like me!), go with the Petite and it'll be perfect. However, the Petite Houstons I bought were way shorter than any Petite jean or pant I've ever tried at LB. So, go with Average unless you usually have to get your Petites hemmed.
Second, and this isn't specific to LB or Right Fit, I find that Bootcut is now more Straight Leg, and Flare is like a fuller version of Bootcut. I put my Bootcuts on and, being a tried and true fan of Flares, really had to spend some time getting used to how they looked, especially with some of my tops and shoes. If you're a "true" Bootcut fan, I would recommend going for the Flare instead.
And lastly, I found that the fabrics between Bootcut and Flare were very different. Flare in Blue/Black Denim has a much thinner and stretchier texture, and I find them very comfy for moving around in. Bootcut in Dark Rinse Denim has a really lovely polished texture, so much so that they could be substituted for khakis at work. Sorry to say but I haven't investigated the lighter finishes since I'm always scouting for nicer denim for work purposes.
Go forth and conquer the denim world!
ps. Sorry for not writing for so long... I promise to post more often!
19 August 2007
Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance
Ever heard of a little show on Oxygen called "Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance"? Apparently it's been on once per year for three years now, but I only just heard of it. It's basically a fat girl beauty pageant, which is cool in and of itself. Recently I watched a rerun of the 2006 version, and also this year's, which took place in Paris, France. I thought I'd love it, but didn't.
What I did like was the lead-up to the pageant. On the 2006 show, Mo'Nique took the pageant contestants horse back riding. One of the women was freaked out, presumably because it was her first time on a horse and because she felt like she'd break its back under her weight. Mo'Nique soothed the woman in part by saying, "It's okay, baby. I'm trying to change the way fat girls live." Meaning, presumably, that fat women generally do not horse back ride or even entertain the notion of horse back riding. Hell, I rode horses as a kid but as a fat adult, I'd certainly have some hesitations and breaking the horse's back would be one of them.
On the 2007 show, Mo'Nique had her contestants - and herself - painted in full body makeup and then pose nude (except for a thong) for pictures. It was a cool idea, and fun to see Mo'Nique in full glory as well. I liked that fat bodies were shown on TV, and NOT because they were getting weighed in for a weight loss reality show or some shit like that. I also liked that the contestant who won the competition was the one most eager to participate in the nude exercise.
In terms of the actual pageant I liked the 2007 version better, in which the contestants wore high fashion clothing and paraded down a runway, similar to a fashion show. The fashions were - gasp! - similar to what thin women wear, and I appreciated that. The judges all sat down together afterwards and chatted to decide a winner.
In 2006, it was literally like a beauty pageant, in which there were different categories that contestants were judged on, including the heinous question and answer portion. I thought the clothes the contestants wore were pretty icksville for the most part. They vacillated from the typical big flowy loose shirt over tight-ish jeans to so skin-tight that you could see everyone's lumps and bumps. Now, fat women have lumps and bumps and hiding them should not be a necessity but did they have to go all the way to the other end of the spectrum, to evening dresses that were practically painted on?
Like I said, I didn't love it... but only because I was so excited when I first heard of the show and the reality of it knocked the wind out of my sails. If any of you have seen it, I'd love to know what you thought.
ps. I just read a little feature about Mo'Nique in People (the one with Katie Holmes on the cover), and it was pretty good! She's such an interesting person. Mo'Nique, I dig you!
What I did like was the lead-up to the pageant. On the 2006 show, Mo'Nique took the pageant contestants horse back riding. One of the women was freaked out, presumably because it was her first time on a horse and because she felt like she'd break its back under her weight. Mo'Nique soothed the woman in part by saying, "It's okay, baby. I'm trying to change the way fat girls live." Meaning, presumably, that fat women generally do not horse back ride or even entertain the notion of horse back riding. Hell, I rode horses as a kid but as a fat adult, I'd certainly have some hesitations and breaking the horse's back would be one of them.
On the 2007 show, Mo'Nique had her contestants - and herself - painted in full body makeup and then pose nude (except for a thong) for pictures. It was a cool idea, and fun to see Mo'Nique in full glory as well. I liked that fat bodies were shown on TV, and NOT because they were getting weighed in for a weight loss reality show or some shit like that. I also liked that the contestant who won the competition was the one most eager to participate in the nude exercise.
In terms of the actual pageant I liked the 2007 version better, in which the contestants wore high fashion clothing and paraded down a runway, similar to a fashion show. The fashions were - gasp! - similar to what thin women wear, and I appreciated that. The judges all sat down together afterwards and chatted to decide a winner.
In 2006, it was literally like a beauty pageant, in which there were different categories that contestants were judged on, including the heinous question and answer portion. I thought the clothes the contestants wore were pretty icksville for the most part. They vacillated from the typical big flowy loose shirt over tight-ish jeans to so skin-tight that you could see everyone's lumps and bumps. Now, fat women have lumps and bumps and hiding them should not be a necessity but did they have to go all the way to the other end of the spectrum, to evening dresses that were practically painted on?
Like I said, I didn't love it... but only because I was so excited when I first heard of the show and the reality of it knocked the wind out of my sails. If any of you have seen it, I'd love to know what you thought.
ps. I just read a little feature about Mo'Nique in People (the one with Katie Holmes on the cover), and it was pretty good! She's such an interesting person. Mo'Nique, I dig you!
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