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I need for find/match or contrast this dress......help please

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 14:57

My SIL to be has this dress for her daughter to wear at SIL & B's wedding

She has asked me to pick a dress to match or compliment it for my DD (the girls are the same age)

Help me I am hopeless & desparate

The dress will be on my profile page soon I hope

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SSShakeTheChi · 15/02/2007 15:02

no sign of it on your profile page Katymac unless I somehow missed it. Can't SIL buy your dd the same dress and you reimburse her for it? Assuming you like the dress that is.

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 15:04

No her ex fil bought it in a small shop in Ireland while on holiday

It should be there now

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 15:12

Any ideas please?

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SSShakeTheChi · 15/02/2007 15:13

Depends how much you want to spend on it too, doesn't it? Wouldn't worry about matching the colour too much, does just look for something of a similar style i.e. floor length, full skirt, in a pale colour which dd likes and which suits her.

I'd look in a wedding shop, they often have dresses like that for flower girls. I wonder if you could rent something if that would be too exorbitant?

If they have a joint role at the wedding, it would be enough to have the same hairband with say white flowers or something like that to give them a more unified look.

scorpio1 · 15/02/2007 15:13

what about this?

JackieNo · 15/02/2007 15:19

Is there a label in it, to give us an idea of who made it? We might be able to track it down somewhere else.

CountessDracula · 15/02/2007 15:19

or this they do in lots of colours

CountessDracula · 15/02/2007 15:21

this?

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 15:29

The monsoon one is georgous - but not similar enough - I'll email siltb the picture

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 15:29

CD your second one is lovley

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CountessDracula · 15/02/2007 15:30

oh bumbags that is a us site
sorry

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 15:37

this is OK ish?

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 15:46

or is this one better?

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JackieNo · 15/02/2007 15:56

This comes in baby blue and white? Or this ? Neither of those have quite the right bodice, though.

CountessDracula · 15/02/2007 16:03

hey this company stock dresses from the first two i linked to

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Katymac · 15/02/2007 21:31

I'm gonna email them all to siltb & let her decide

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Katymac · 16/02/2007 09:26

bump for more ideas SILTB was not impressed

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themildmanneredjanitor · 16/02/2007 09:29

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SSShakeTheChi · 16/02/2007 09:32

She wasn't impressed? Thought those dresses would all be ok. What wasn't she happy about? Was she specific?

Can't she contact that little shop in Ireland and see if they can't order a second dress? She may still have the address on the receipt. Perhaps if you know the company who made it, you could try and order it yourself.

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Katymac · 16/02/2007 09:37

Hmm I'm being very careful what I say....

Yes it is very umm shiney (not dd's style at all)

Neither girl are bridemaids - but they were promised (not by me) that they could wear the same (I don't make promises I can't keep)

So I have to do my (and by "my" I mean mumsnet's) best

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SSShakeTheChi · 16/02/2007 09:39

That's so stupid, so first she says they can wear the same and then she gets something for her dd and leaves it to you to hunt down a dress that looks the same?

Personally I liked some of the ones we had on this thread better than the one that was bought for SIL's dd. Just get something you and dd like and be done with it if they aren't flower girls or anything, what does it matter?

themildmanneredjanitor · 16/02/2007 09:40

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Katymac · 16/02/2007 10:05

Say "family Harmony" several timesquietly

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JackieNo · 16/02/2007 10:08

I think you're going to have to put the ball in her court more firmly though, and get her to do more of the work of matching them, as she's the one who's insisting on it. Can you both sit down in front of the computer (either at the same computer, or on the phone at separate computers if she's too far away) and look at sites/dresses at the same time?