to not understand why strapless wedding dresses are so popular?

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I just think that on lots of people they are not the most flattering style. Yes they do look great on some people, but I don't get why 99% of the styles are strapless?

solo that's not just strapless they also forgot to put in half the material across the bust!!!
I don't care about anyone else but mine suited me. I do have the right body shape tho (tiny hourglass) & I was young & toned.
I tried lots of styles including sleeves and it just was the one that looked best. It wasn't what I thought I'd get and wouldn't have even tried it on if somebody else hadn't suggested it.

I don't like the strapless ones, and had one with straps. I wed in 2009.

My dress was by Amanda Wyatt and a called Delores.

Sorry can't link

And fat people should not wear strapless or fitted dresses. It makes me roll eyes.

Well we mustn't offend you must we so let's pass a law right away!

If I am missing a huge dose of irony here Britannia then I apologise, but if you are serious then it's just as well you weren't at my wedding because I am fat and wore a strapless fitted ( and flared) dress. (with a shawl) Sometimes tbh I think it was a bit of a car crash, but mostly I think my smile was so ear to ear and I was so lit up from the inside that I don't think anybody noticed the dress.

In general though, I think , ahem, voluptuous women do far more justice to strapless than do thin ones! Thin women look good is sheath/shifts and erm, that's it.

Oh shit. I've chosen a strapless dress. I didn't want strapless but fell in love with this dress, the way it made me look and feel. It has a sort of chiffon fabric halter neck which I didn't like and was having taken off but i wonder if I can get it made into shoulder straps instead. I have big boobs and don't want to be pulling it up all day.

Big boobs look better in a corset than flat chests imo

yanbu

soo bored of strapless even when they look nice just one long boring blur..

loved the phase 8 and monsoon ones are lovley.

in short, like any other item of clothing, a strapless dress looks great on some and terrible on others.

the important thing is not to make the KateM mistake and look like a doll on a toilet roll,especially when your bridesmaid's outfit makes everyone watching roll over and go 'PHWOAR'. Particularly when 'everyone' is a huge television audience.

BTW wedding dresses don't have to come from wedding dress shops. Mine didn't and I still wear it occasionally two decades later. It isn't white and it isn't strapless.

The bit I think is funny is that I've come across so many women around here going on about original dresses.....and they are all the same, ivory strapless gowns.

There's a bridal shop across the street from the music shop where DD takes piano lessons, and I'd estimate at least 95% of the dresses are ivory strapless gowns.

Mine was strapless and I was 7 months pregnant!

I looked awesome...it was also black.

We were married in 2008 and it was next to impossible to find a dress with sleeves. I was very slim and small chested, but very pale and didn't want so much flesh on display (DH's Grandfather was marrying us). I very nearly had one made, but eventually found one with sleeves.

I think strapless dresses do look nice, but it's nice to have a little jacket over the top (or a veil) to cover your shoulders during the ceremony.

I am amazed that the fashion has remained for so long though.

I loved Kate Middleton's dress.

Try finding a dress that isn't strapless though... I got married in 2009 and couldn't believe how little choice there was. Even in the fanciest wedding boutique in Islington all the bloody frocks looked the same. After wasting 3 weekends trawling the vintage shops of north and west London I gave up and bought something in the sale at debenhams (a shop I had never been to before or since) and tried not to think too much about it. Grim times!

So did I, LadyBeagle. I was a bit bummed out when I saw it actually. I would've wanted something like that, different to the strapless a-line stuff, but now if you went for a similar style you'd get people going "ooooh, like Kate Middleton?".

YANBU

They don't suit 80% of people who wear them. I was adamant I didn't want one and thankfully found one that wasn't. Here is the one I wore - I loved it my non strapless dress

How do you all feel about converse for wedding shoes

I didn't have white or ivory- I was far too impure to get away with it

I wore Iron Fist zombie flats Doyouhearthepeoplesing

That's gorgeous DragonMamma! You're lucky, cap sleeves are not my friends.

I have several pairs of iron fist pumps and they're so comfy I'm tempted to wear a pair of those

Basically I'm against uncomfy heels

dragonmamma - that's a really beautiful dress

They are so comfy aren't they? As I said, I was 7 months pregnant so comfort as key...I don't have any full length pics on this laptop but here's me...the dress was plain black, the sahs/bouquet/buttonholes etc all made by me. Hope the link works.

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YANBU

When I got married in 2004 I got fed up of looking for a dress, strapless doesn't suit me and it wasn't what I wanted. I actually asked as soon as I went into one shop "do you have any dresses with sleeves?" The owner gave me a bit of a funny look, and then found one with sleeves - pity it was backless!!!

I ended up making mine.