To ban strapless wedding dresses being manufactured over a size 12?

[AnnaMosity]

Bloody things. Everywhere. Cliche. Dull
But fat arms backs ew.
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I think it depends on your shape and knowing what suits your figure rather than size as such. I know some women over a size 14 with fantastic arms and I know some size 10's with bingo wings and shoulders a wrestler would be proud of. If you can pull it off good for you.

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Thanks JamieandTheOlympicTorch I shall have a look on Monsoon's website. I'm no skinny minnie and I have builders arms due to carrying and lifting which have gone saggy due to Xbox and cake. I'd put the guests off their dinners if I wore strapless.

Actually there's a pic of me in s strapless on my profile. I'm loving the underarm chub....

Integral Knickers sounds like a prog rock band.

Strapless is generally awful on anyone due to the "armgina" effect. You've got to have super toned arms/chest/back/shoulders to get away with it but even so. A wedding dress? Why would you?

I think size 12 is too big. I would say size 10. A size 12 and 14 can look amaaaazing in a wedding gown but not in a strapless one

mindoza - you seem to suggest that no-one over a size 14 can look good in a wedding dress of any kind .

Oh dear.

I've seen a quite a few posts from you recently, AnnaMosity. You're certainly living up to your name, aren't you?

FWIW, strapless dresses aren't the easiest of styles to pull off, but that has little to do with your size - it tends to depend more on your body shape, the tailoring of the dress, and how you carry yourself.

And looking nice is quite worthless if you don't have a personality to match.

You say it "arm gyna" right ? Not geena

I would ban prom dresses as well.

Buxom cam be lovely on wedding dress often nicer than fried eggs.
I just hate fat backs. looks at own

I think it is up to the bride what she wears but I do think if you are paying the price most bridal shops charge you are entitled to be able to view yourself in one of those 360degree mirrors.

Agree old boots. With "blunt friend" app

c0rns - if by prom dress you mean something barely covers arse, and stripper shoes, then I'm with you. The sight of these poor hobbling girls last week made me shudder, they looked so vulnerable

Oh well, I was obviously hideous on my wedding day

I think they look crap on everyone, even the perfectly figured. But I have said this for years boring everyone to death iin the process.

StrapleSs dresses ok for parties but not for wedding dress when you will be in a million photos showing off your ghastly armpit folds.

I had straps on my wedding dress and actually wish I had had sleeves too :D

But yes OP, you are sizist

I loved my strapless corset - for once my boobs came into their own instead of being a pita that means I have to buy tops that fit them and nowhere else!

big girls should have the freedom to wave it all about on their wedding days.

but lace, sleeves and high necklines are much nicer.

Strapless dresses are bollocks = prize cunt?

Bloody norah.

SO - what would you have brides wear instead?

Something they look and feel comfortable in. In church something a bit more demure than some I've seen.

I find women with curves look a lot better in a fitted strapless dress than slender women. I am a size ten but my arms are huge and flappy, so I deffinately wouldn't wear one. Plus I would she scared my boobs would pop out.

I like my comfort, so think nick-nacks and high heels are out too. And I feel the cold, so it would be comfy slacks, wellies and a wooly-pully for me.