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| the regular department store dress (Datum: 16.12.2013 um 08:53 Uhr)
Given a lucky day at the J.C. Penney sales rack, a traditional bridesmaid dress can cost as little as $59. If you broaden your search a bit, to include the regular evening gown section, the "better dresses" department for a daytime wedding, or the Chadwick's catalog, you can find remarkable bargains. And some of these dresses are very nice, and can be worn again unless your bridesmaids' entire social lives revolve around the better casinos as Monte Carlo. The "clothing and accessories" section on Ron & Debbie's Penny Pinchin' Wedding Page has even more ideas for controlling wedding gallery costs.Once you're in the regular department store dress sections, it's only a small step from looking for inexpensive "disposable" dresses to considering dresses that the bridesmaids genuinely might wear again.It has become conventional, in many circles, for bridesmaids to wear long formal gowns even for a late-morning or early afternoon wedding.Etiquette experts don't approve the practice, but popular customs change more quickly than formal etiquette.) While this practice makes a pretty picture, it complicates efforts to choose an acceptable dress.
Back when matching bridesmaids were invented, in the mid-nineteenth century, the bridesmaids were dressed appropriately for the time of day. The long, fancy dress worn at an afternoon wedding was nothing more than the sort of dress that a young woman might wear to any major afternoon party. In today's terms, it would be the same as the dress you might wear to a garden party, an art gallery opening, or a wedding where you were a guest!Unless the bride is wearing the most elaborately halter neck wedding dresses possible, it's worth thinking about going back to the old rule and dressing bridesmaids in clothes that women wear for "normal" dress-up occasions. While this means evening gowns for a formal evening wedding, it may mean elegant street-length dresses or suits for an afternoon wedding.Exactly matching dresses are optional: many stores will stock slightly different styles in the exact same shades of sage green, aubergine, aqua, or other fashionable colors. It's also very elegant, stylish, and traditional to have each bridesmaid choose a white dress appropriate for the time of day. (Different shades of white blend together just fine, and the bride's more elaborate dress, veil, and dazed expression of joy distinguish her from her attendants.