Real Bride V Models

Can't wait to be able to do this! I have a few weeks yet before I get to try on my dress for the fittings so will take pics then and hunt down this thread again!

Kerri you look so different now, don't know why but I wouldn't have recognised you from your wedding pics.

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Mine i think mine looks better on the model

It really, really doesn't. She's either painfully thin or has been photoshopped to look painfully thin. Either way she doesn't look healthy or happy, and I always think that really ruins a dress. The shape and detail on it really complements your figure!

Mine on the model:

Aaaaaand on me at my first fitting (please pardon the rubbish quality photo as it's off my phone!). Give me 3 1/2 weeks and I'll have some MUCH nicer pics for you ?

The thing with this image is it's been obviously stretched and taken in around the hips. If you notice there is a slight difference around the waist on either side. The side where the models hand has her fingers showing was easier to take in than the other side and the weakness of the photo editor who retouched the image is showing.

It's also a slight illusion too as because the bottom of the dress isn't fully in view, coupled with the models long hair and earrings it misleads the eye.

She also isn't flat against that wall, perhaps 1ft away from it. She's resting her bum against the wall (which is why she is buckled forward so severely around her shoulders). This pushes the center of the dress away rom your view making it smaller in the middle. By pushing her shoulders forward it also makes her look slimmer and taller.

It's all a lie! ?

This is why I really loved shopping for plus sized dresses. Ok so the models are still airbrushed to smooth out lumps and bumps and make them look all glowy, but at least they're not trying to look slimmer than they really are. I saw one dress modelled on a plus size model, and then again on a conventionally sized one, and it really looked so much nicer on the bigger girl!

I am not a fan of the fashion industry and its preoccupation with skeletal women!

Love, love, LOVE that!

I haven't chosen a dress yet. Still a lot of weight to shift, but I'll save the model photo of the one I want for when the time comes!

I faithfully promise I am not obsessed with this issue, but I have a hurty back and am confined to the sofa anyway, so decided to scan in the pic from my bridal mag of the 'thin' dress and then compare it to the same dress in plus size. Any minute now, I'm going to get a life instead, haha!

Same dress, modelled by two very different looking women and looking almost like two different gowns altogether. I saw the first pic in a bridal mag last year, went to the Veromia website where they only had the plus size model photo and had to go back and forth between the two pictures because I wasn't 100% that it was the same dress. Both ladies look absolutely lovely in it (although I very personally think that the second photo does the dress more justice, and not just because of my dodgy scanner ruining the first one!).

Ooh OK why not.

I think mine looks better the way it is posed on the model (and not just the face!)

I really didnt rate mine on the model and didnt realise it was the same dress when I fell in love with it

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Dont know why the photo keeps inserting the wrong way round but you get the idea!

Thank you, you have made my day!!! ?

Here's a picture of a model in my dress:

I wish models of all sizes were photographed in wedding dresses - it would give us B2B's an easier time when looking.

And bridal shops NEVER stock size 8 dresses so they all look absolutely huge on me as the "normal" stocked size is 12/14....

But think of the cost of doing that! So therefore we'd have less choice in the shops... It's a difficult issue

I feel pretty bad for bridal shops since I found out that it costs them an absolute fortune to buy the sample dresses in, and then they're dead stock. At best they'll be sold at ex-sample sales for a fraction of the price the store bought them for. And imagine the insurance! The shop I bought my dress from had about 100 gowns in there, with average price of £1100. Then they had bridesmaids dresses, shoes, jewellery - I don't even want to consider the total value of their stock!

Naboo, on the model the dress looks frumpy and she looks like she is wearing an old sack. On you it looks AmaZing. ?

Bear in mind though it doesn't fit me at this point!

That was my exact thought too.....

Peter

I think even if the designers had the bottle to publish photos of their dresses on models that are a size eight and then every other size going up to the maximum size it comes in it would help B2B's. For example 8,12,16,20 etc. At least we could have an idea how the dress looks, even if our body was a different shape to the model's.

I really really like this thread! I've not been dress shopping yet but this thread is making me feel much better about going- I'm a big girl and feeling a bit scared of the experience to be honest. I can't believe how much better the dresses look on real women- you all look fabulous! x

Great thread!!!

Thanks Lynsey for starting that one - They ALL look better on the real brides IMO.

I do feel better about my dress and think it will look better on me! ? *my very own trumpet blown here* x

This is mine on the model

and on me

It wasnt done up properly at the back so will be a bit more fitted.

This is mine

See now I think it's spot the difference between me and the model ?

Haha sorted it!

Mine was discontinued and they re-shot all the later dresses for a website relaunch so the original photo of mine doesn't exist (I even emailed the designer!!!)

This is the closest match to the same style on the designers website...

And this is me...

WSS precisely!! xx

WSS! I was just going to say, Naboo, on the model it looks like she's wearing a nightgown, whereas on you it looks divine!!!

Until I lose more weight I maintain that on the model it looks better:

Here is mine on the model...

And me (Sample dress is battered btw!)

I have had huge dress wobbles as my dress sample was a 14 and I swear for a 6 footer ! I am a 10 and 5'5". I hate the pics I took on my phone and I have been twitched ever since ! I went back to another store and tried it and the lady pinned up the shoulders aswell as the waist and I felt a bit better but no photos. But I guess if they can only stock on dress in makes sense to stock something in the middle ground ?

For the record I think the all look worse on the model ! And actually in some instances a completely different dress !

What a good thread!