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

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Bloody things. Everywhere. Cliche. Dull
But fat arms backs ew.
And back hamsters.

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I had one strap on my wedding dress :) Does that count?

About 36 miles of train and veil though to make up for lack of straps and I was teeny tiny as well

YANBU - I wore a strapless dress for my wedding. I HATE looking at the pictures! I'm a size 8 and not exactly blessed in the tit department, I had tan lines and fat arms

Grim
Bad enuff wearing a pale colour or sometimes satin but no sleeves
Awful
All that hoisting up

As an above size 12, I agree with op. We should dress to our size, shape and age. Who advises these people to wear a strapless dress? They are also very, very old fashioned the last three years.

It's strapless gowns in general that need banning from use.

They suit so few people.

I'm always amazed by how many lovely young women with their perfect 20yo bodies choose strapless ball gowns that look bad on them.

Something with some form of strappage/sleevage is often far more flattering, though admittedly far more difficult to find.

I saw a large bride in a strapless wedding dress once, she had tried to disguise her ununflattering features, it failed to disguise, she looked insecure and the wrap added pounds. She was also large in the stomach and tried with the design to hide the fact. Had she and her advisor taken the time to dress for her size and shape, she would have been more confident and not a fashion victim. Again I say this as someone with weight issues.

I don't like strapless dress of any type
but I don't care what other people wear for their weddings
My dress had straps and I had big floaty sleeves put on to it

I was an 8 at the time too, just felt sleeves were more appropriate

I completely agree with you, op. I was really self conscious about my tummy when looking for a wedding dress, so focussed on finding something that was flattering in that area and didn't think about whether strapless was flattering.

I hate how I looked in my wedding dress. Not only was it strapless it also had a sweetheart neckline (what was I thinking?!). I was a size 14, back fat spilling over the back, boobs juggling for space at the front. Absolutely fucking awful!

In fact, I should put a photo on here as an example of what not to wear, but it would be too mortifying.

I still can't move past it 5 years later

Some nice sleeved ones here.

For my first marriage I had a very short dress with sleeves. Was size 10 young and toned.

For my next marriage I'll have halter neck perhaps? Not white though probably a colour?

Had first dress made by a friend, total cost £24. That was 1993 though.

Size not the issue, it's that they're so ubiquitous. Give me Kate Middleton's dress any day.

I'm not keen on strapless dresses on anybody. Especially me I ahve cornbeef arms and am a dress size 30. :(

YABU too.

Strapless wedding dresses are DULL , DULL, DULL. Every wedding that i have attended in the last few years has a strapless dress wearing bride and it is boring.
It has nothing to do with dress size,( because as others have said , body shape is the most important factor to take into account ) it is just that they are so uninspiring.

This is possibly the most mundane, ridiculous thread I have ever had the misfortune to come across.

We are all going to die, fact. Get a life, before it is over.

This thread is a bloody good example of the mysogyny in society and how the celebrity culture in magazines and newspapers has affected the brains of people who obviously cant think for themselves.
Love the post about men and kilts though. It really shows up our woman hating woman blaming society for what it is.
Thanks Closer/Heat/Daily Mail et al. As you can see from this thread youve done a bang up job!

carer- how on earth can you get misogyny out of some people not liking strapless dresses?

Most people have said they like or don't like strapless dresses
No one specified whether it was men or women wearing them

Actually kilts are very forgiving on men and most men look quite good in them and that's them all sorted - easy peasy.

Many men don't really care what they wear and how they look as long as they are comfortable and pass muster and I suspect Lots would like to get married in jeans and t shirt if they could. People hardly notice the groom compared to the bride who usually spends a lot more money, time and effort obsessing about what she looks like. Men probably think women are a bit daft for the lengths and discomforts we go to to look the way we do.

Taking a rough guess at the average age of mumsnetters, I would say you have about 50 to 60 years left on this planet.

Why spend it obsessing over what is essentially abstract and pointless? When you could say read great literature, expand your mind a bit. I have sat with friends aghast as they slapped the latest issue of Heat or whatever on the table and proceeded to disect every airbrushed picture, feeding their insecurity and body misery.

This type of shitty thread just fuels the brainwashing further. And believe me it is brainwashing. Do you think certain markets would survive if every woman was happy in her own skin?

So I say let it go, in existential terms who should give a fuck about folds of skin and dimpled thighs? Really?

Life is for living

Rubberglove, the thing that i love about mumsnet is the fact i can obsess about 'pointless' things.

Rubberglove, you sound like a good time gal. I want to talk strapless dresses and bridsey stuff. Why did you even click on and read the thread if it is so pointless (which it is of course) and beneath you?

I walked past the most divine wedding dress shop in Hayfield today. I said to DH "dh we have to get remarried immediately because I want that dress". Think Jackie O. Gorgeous.