Wedding dress-transformer

Want to get everything out of your wedding planning? And dance to your heart's content, and look great at the ceremony? But two outfits are too expensive, and a short model will not give you the opportunity to realize your childhood dream - to get married in a luxurious ball gown with a fluffy long skirt, foam lace, jewelry, flowers ... Fortunately, the designers of wedding fashion were able to fulfill this whim - a wedding transforming dress, which with a slight movement of the hand turns from a long ... into a short one, will make your wish come true!

Thus, in the usual short dress on the dance floor, the bride will feel much more comfortable, especially in summer.

Oddly enough, the inventor of transforming dresses was not a professional couturier, but Lydia Sylvester, a young journalist who, by virtue of her profession, had to always have a lot of clothes with her that were appropriate for a given situation. This prompted her to come up with a dress that could be easily transformed and allowed to create different images.

Is it possible to make a hundred from one dress? The answer to this question was given by Lydia Sylvester in 1976, presenting her collection on the English catwalk, which made a real sensation both in the press and in the fashion world.

This brilliant idea turned out to be very fruitful, including for wedding fashion, was picked up by designers and developed into a huge variety of models of wedding dresses-transformers.

By the way, it allows you to solve the problem of dress for the second day of wedding celebrations, because it is customary for the bride to appear in a different dress.

Models of transforming dresses, perhaps, can be called the most creative and versatile among all the proposed wedding dresses. They allowed designers to give free rein to their imaginations, but at the same time demanded a number of original solutions.

A dress with a long skirt should look like a single whole, and then turn into a completely different style with a “light movement of the hand”. Indeed, on the transforming dress there are clever attachments for fastening, for the time being hidden under decorative elements such as a belt, flounces, frills, etc., and all the more unexpected is the transformation of a romantic fairy-tale princess into a modern elegant girl in a short dress.

Among wedding transforming dresses, a detachable skirt is perhaps the most popular option. The basis is usually a tight-fitting short dress, which can later be used as a cocktail dress, but with a fluffy long skirt it is a great wedding dress.

The detachable skirt can be:

• of a very different style;
• various splendor;
• with a complex multi-tiered texture;
• from different types of fabric, not necessarily the same as the fabric of the top.

So, for example, a long lace skirt gives the bride's image amazing romance and tenderness, and an airy translucent one will showcase beautiful slender legs.

The semi-open skirt serves the same purpose - it is short in front, gradually lengthening towards the back. There are a lot of options, but a beautiful drapery looks especially impressive.

As a rule, a detachable skirt is attached at the waist. The best option for fastening is considered to be a hidden zipper, covered with a belt or a peplum, which themselves turn into a decorative element. It is much more reliable than buttons or hooks, especially if the long skirt is rather heavy due to the abundance of frills and flounces.

There is another mounting option - on a skirt, which is used for styles with a midi-length skirt.

A striking example is the "fish". This style is characterized by a tight-fitting silhouette that emphasizes all the advantages of the figure, and the curvy lower part usually starts at the knee level or slightly higher.

The mermaid is distinguished by sophistication, elegance and sophistication, and lace, voluminous flowers, bows and other decorative elements are used to hide the fixation line of the removable skirt.

Overhead skirts should not be confused with detachable ones, as they of different lengths are fixed directly on the corset as needed.

So, for solemn and especially important moments (registration, photo session, arrival at a wedding banquet, the first dance of the newlyweds), the bride can wear a long skirt, and then change it to a short one, changing not only the silhouette of the dress, but also her image.

The train gives the bride's image something regal, makes it luxurious and majestic, but also creates a lot of problems.

The bride constantly has to make sure that the train does not get dirty, does not catch on or break for anything, and people around should take special care not to inadvertently step on this part of the wedding dress.

It is almost impossible to spend the whole day in a wedding dress with a train and not get dirty, so a clip-on train will save the bride from unnecessary headaches: it can be attached for registration, photo session and for arriving at a wedding banquet, and, for example, removed for a walk or dancing.

The train is usually attached using buttons, and the attachment point can be easily disguised using a rich arsenal of decorative elements for a wedding dress (artificial flowers, belt, ruffles, flounces, etc.).

There are models in which the cape can act as a train.

Wedding dress designers love to use lace to create their designs. These can be completely lace wedding dresses or their individual elements, for example, sleeves, inserts on the chest and on the back, flounces, etc.

However, it is not at all necessary to use handmade lace. Machine lace or guipure can be a perfectly acceptable alternative - a thin openwork fabric, which, nevertheless, keeps its shape perfectly and is great for ruffles, flounces and fluffy skirts.

In transformer wedding dresses lace and guipure are very often used for a removable skirt or train, while the dress itself can be made of the same or a different fabric, and lace / guipure ruffles and flounces are used both to decorate the dress and to mask the junction ...

The transforming wedding dress has many more advantages than disadvantages, however, they should be mentioned.

The "weak link" may be the fastening of a long skirt, so you should pay special attention to this point and check its strength during the fitting process. It is also important that the process of removing / changing the skirt is quick and really done with a “light hand movement”.

Such a dress has much more advantages. First of all, it is, of course, an opportunity to change the image, if not in front of the amazed audience, then in a matter of minutes. We have already spoken about the possibility of using a transforming dress - you do not have to sadly open the closet and admire your luxurious dress, in which - alas! - already nowhere to be shown.

And, finally, a short dress will help the groom to fulfill with dignity another tradition - to pull off a lace garter from the bride's leg with his teeth. You must admit that it doesn't look very decent when the bride has to lift up her fluffy skirts, and the groom must feel the coveted garter in this foam of lace or silk.

There are no significant drawbacks to transforming wedding dresses, so you can safely choose them. You will get beauty, comfort, variability and variety of styles. All brides-to-be should take note of them.