So I got an e-mail from The Steff. She went with her mom and Lollipop to try on wedding dresses… afterall… the big day is only 6 months away.
So she sent a couple pictures of different dresses.
Some were nice.
Some not so nice.
This one, which apparently was the overall favorite, irked the living hell out of me.
At first I thought it was the it was the lace jumble in the abdominal area that was bothersome… but no… I kind of like that.
Then I thought it was the vertical pleats in the bust area… it seems so blah… and while that definitely is a detractor, it isn’t the sinker on this dress for me.
Then I looked at the skirt. A good long look. I personally am a fan of the poofy dress. In fact, I love and adore the southern belle style hoop dresses. While this dress definitely looked poofy… it just didn’t look like the right kind of poof.
So in my head I started thinking of all the women I could remember in poofy dresses… Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie), Viven Leigh (Gone With the Wind), and of course Christina Ricci (Sleepy Hollow). That’s when I realized it. The image popped into my skull and seared itself into my gray matter.
The reason this dress is a total crash and burn for me isn’t because of WHAT it looks like… but of WHO it reminds me of…
