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help! I can't find a dress to wear to a 'beach' wedding

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hettie · 09/02/2011 14:54

Bloody hell! Have bought two dresses now and am about to return the second....
this one
which is gorgeous, but I feel gives me no waist and rather floods me out (does this make sense), also the neckline doesn't really flater my tiny boobs...
The otehr one was another ebay purchase, coast (used) bias cut halter neck with ruffles on the lower half (it's ok as a back up but....)
Help me musnetters am begining to stress, wedding in less than a month and v little cashe to splash (50-70 quid max).
I am 5 ft 4" with a slender/boyish figure size 8 (sometimes 10 in some shops), b cup boobs (but good bras), minimal waist... brown hair. The wedding is in the tropics in a beach resort and I suspect stylsih laid back glam....

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hettie · 09/02/2011 15:42

should add thought a maxi dress would be very 'beach' but suspect I need some draping/structure? Do such maxi dresses exist?

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hugebelly · 09/02/2011 15:57

what about a prom dress that sits at the knee, with a full skirt?

Like this?

hettie · 09/02/2011 16:15

it's nice and would defo flatter my shape, but I geuss I had something a bit more beach ish? Maybe like this? but I'm not sure I could pull it off with my figure, something with a print and some drapes around boobs maybe?

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hettie · 09/02/2011 16:16

mme just remembered high necks suit me- either hight wrapped halter ish or chinese collar types....

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