Need Your Unfiltered Thoughts on This 2005 Wedding Dress

[Sarah484l]

Hey friends! 💍👰
So, I found this wedding dress from 2005, and I need your honest-to-goodness thoughts. I can't figure out if it's cool in a vintage way or just completely out of style and awful.
Don't hold back or try to be nice – I want your unfiltered opinions! Whether you think it's awesome or awful, I want to hear it. I know you all will tell it like it is.

Ty

Sarah

The very first word that sprang to mind was "bland". It looks incredibly pedestrian.

The colour is nice.

Not even in 2005, sorry. It's ironic fancy dress, possibly retro, definitely not vintage. Unless you really love it and it's the dress of your childhood dreams.

It's far too wide and puffy - not at all flattering.

Looks like a duvet.

I remember these being the big thing at the time. I called them duvet dresses. Didn’t like them then either!

It’s looks like a Roman blind and is awful, sorry op.

I can't stand it. The bodice bit looks so smooth then the bottom looks like a vienetta

I think we're all agreed , this is one that was for sale ... dare I say it now , hideous?

@Sarah484l I'm not sure I've ever seen a thread that was in such total agreement!

Yes!

Atrocious!

It actually looks a bit cheap to me the material doesn't look great

It's pretty naff.

This exact thread has been done before! For some reason I don't think it was quite so unanimous that time. It was within the last year I'm sure, possibly even more recent.

By exact thread I mean asking for opinions on that specific dress.

i think it was outdated, ugly and wrong back in 2005 😂

That strapless trend was just awful, suited so few women. The rest of the dress is worse - it really hasn't dated well. Austrian blinds indeed!

I remember it too, I had to check if it was a zombie thread.

This! A colleague of mine in 2006/7 got married in a dress like this and I couldn't believe she had willingly chosen it!

I join the universal agreement.

Sorry I really don't like it. It's not vintage in a cool way unfortunately and just looks dated. I was a 2009 bride and would choose something completely different now. I didn't like that style then either.

I actually don't mind the style at all but I think that is just not a nice version of it. As others have said it looks cheap.
If you like that kind of ballgowny looks there were much nicer versions of it back in 2005!!

I actually think it has potential - as a basis for some alterations I would love to give it a bit of TLC and an update. Not trying to be contrary or owt.