fashion advice
 

Hello y'all! :D I need some advice from you guys. I'm thinking of sewing this dress to go to a wedding and wonder if I can pull it off. I'm 4'9" and planning to wear a four inch heel shoes. Someone said I'm too short and the dress will make me look even shorter. So I thought I'd get second opinions. Be honest but not too mean. :p:

We'll need to see a full-length shot of you.

You are going to wear a white dress at another woman's wedding? :eyebrow:

I love the dress but I cannot judge the dress on a mannequin it would need to be on you. :).

I think that if anything, the high sculpted neck would make you appear taller, not shorter. It's a beautiful dress and I think you would look good in it.

But for the record, you definitely shouldn't make it in a white fabric.

I don't see how it will make you look short. Style-wise. But don't go for white unless it is required for tradition. Darker colors elongate.

This is how my figure will be then (I'm going by these measurements, wedding is in October). I was standing on a slight slant but I think you can see my figure enough. I was also wearing the shoes I intend to wear to the wedding so that's exactly how tall I will be. As for wearing white, I won't be. I was looking for a style to go by, not the exact dress. Traditional Asians wear white to funerals, so it would be a symbolic of death. Unless you want to curse the couple, wearing white to a wedding is a huge no-no. :p: Hmm...I made a bet with someone that I will go down to a 26" waist by the end of summer, so I may even be a tad slimmer than that. Well, that is if I make it. :D

Definitely make you look taller. :yesnod:

I don't see the problem with looking short.

I mean, you know, you are what you are! We're conditioned by society to think that beauty equals tall, thin, lanky, willowy but that's really ridiculous. I've seen too many beautiful people who were none of that.

The only thing to consider with this dress is if it fits your personality. Does it flatter your body shape, your figure, what you want people to think about you.

Nobody is TOO short. Too short for what?

You can be too short to reach a shelf, too short to be allowed on a roller coaster, too short for a pair of jeans to fit right--but too short to be beautiful? Never.

--sez Juni, who is 5'1.5"

The blue dress looks great on you, and the one you're thinking of is not so very different. I'd guess it'll be a good look for you.

I think it will look great on you, have at!

I think you are lovely. As far as I can tell, the dress is great. I would be careful not to make the collar too long or too fanned out so it shows off your neck. Cutting it closer and shorter for a longer silhouette. I am sure you know that already but that is my opinion of the dress and how I see it on you.

What a silly and mean thing to say. Too short for what? And it won't really make you shorter, you won't get stuck like that or anything...

I'd bet money a relative said that. Only relatives are ever that mean.

Thing is, you're only comfortable if you address what bothers you. clearly this bothers Tulip or she wouldn't have mentioned it. We all have our achilles heels about how we look -things logically we shouldn't worry about but we do. personally, my belly is my concern. I see people with much lumpier figures in much tighter clothes not giving a stuff about how their lumps look and I know i shouldn't either, but I do......

so too short for her comfort level? We all know she's gorgeous.

bingo

relatives and "best" friends.