Floor-length is fun--it REALLY feels like one is dressing up.
First of all, 'Posse?' Passé
Cordelia ,'Potential'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Feb 20, 2008 11:17:23 am PST #452 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Burrell - Feb 20, 2008 11:18:36 am PST #453 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It's not like I've reworn the tea length bridesmaids dresses I have any more than the full length ones. Okay, one. I've reworn exactly one bridesmaids dress, that's it.
Okay, I so need a cup of coffee. I thought I could get through today without it, but no way.
Burrell - Feb 20, 2008 11:20:50 am PST #454 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oo, exciting Scrappy!
You know, we really need a good reason to make everyone dress up again. The last time I dressed up was years ago, right after Franny was born.
Jesse - Feb 20, 2008 11:21:42 am PST #455 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's not like I've reworn the tea length bridesmaids dresses I have any more than the full length ones.
Yeah, me too. Although I only have one of each.
My friend who's been a bridesmaid a million times has most often been told to pick her own dress, not a Bridesmaid Dress. So she was cranky when we were in a wedding together in floor-length satin, but I was just thinking how much worse it could have been.
lisah - Feb 20, 2008 11:22:33 am PST #456 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Shmames Sfranco
ooh! love!
I think I"m going to head out early due to the weather. it sounds like almost everyone else has left anyway.
Maria - Feb 20, 2008 11:22:48 am PST #457 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Happy birthday, Jon! And a happy belated one to Benno!
Don't all the men in the wedding party usually wear tuxes?
Or maybe, like Shrift said, I'm used to that as a Midwestern Thing. Tuxes, expensive/useless/ugly/Prom-y bridesmaid dresses.
It's an Italian-American thing too, though I am starting to see a trend towards tuxes with Windsor knots instead of bowties. Floor-length dresses for the women is the norm. Tea-length is passable if everyone is wearing them and they're in a fabric that connotes cocktail/party dress.
I tried to stay away from the ugly Prom-like dresses, and picked something they could wear again. Oooh, related story: My cousin in France (bridesmaid in my wedding 2 years ago) used the dress as her wedding dress for the civil ceremony in July. I was totally chuffed.
Ginger, I think shrift said the color must be Marine.
ita, I hope that all this is over for you soon.
Dana - Feb 20, 2008 11:24:01 am PST #458 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I let my bridesmaid pick her own dress. But the (two) men were in tuxes.
Maria - Feb 20, 2008 11:24:58 am PST #459 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Muesli:
Yay Scrappy's DH! That wonderful!
Ginger - Feb 20, 2008 11:25:17 am PST #460 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think all of those had marine options. I just wasn't linking right.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2008 11:25:28 am PST #461 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, I hope things go well for your DH, Scrappy!
Thanks, MFNLaw. Hopefully we're seeing a smoothing out of things, a tenuous treaty for the moment.