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blabberwort

The dress is lovely but far too short even with tights. I've never understood girls/women wanting to wear skirts so short that they may as well be a belt. Mini skirts and dresses are fine but lets face it, that dress is not made to keep you decent if not wearing tights. I totally agree with you op that this is unsuitable for a wedding, in fact if my 18 year old wore it even to a nightclub I would have a fit.

Im not a prude by any means, wore plenty of short skirts in my day but there really is short and then theres belts and t-shirts. Im surprised that it's actually your OH who is happy for her to wear it, in my experience most fathers would prefer their daughters to be wearing dresses that just about showed the feet and nothing else lol. It's usually the mothers who are more fogiving over their daughters clothes.

Pollycat

blabberwort wrote: »

The dress is lovely but far too short even with tights.

How can you say it's too short when you don't know (because the OP hasn't shared that information with us) how tall the step-daughter is?
The reality is - if she is a size 8 and is 5' 10" tall, it will look like it does on the model.
If, however, she is smaller, it will not look as short as it does on the model.

blabberwort wrote: »

in fact if my 18 year old wore it even to a nightclub I would have a fit.

Im not a prude by any means

Really?

blabberwort

Pollycat wrote: »

How can you say it's too short when you don't know (because the OP hasn't shared that information with us) how tall the step-daughter is?
The reality is - if she is a size 8 and is 5' 10" tall, it will look like it does on the model.
If, however, she is smaller, it will not look as short as it does on the model.



Really?

So if the daughter is a good 5 inches shorter than the model you believe that it wont hang differently? surely that much size difference is going to have a drastic effect to the look compared to the model. As for the really? remark regarding me not being a prude, no I can emphatically say that not wanting my daughter to wear a dress where she may as well be wearing just a longline t-shirt to a nightclub does not make me a prude. Maybe I just care that my daughter isnt made to look like sex is available to all and sundry blokes in a club, because lets face it, wrong or not, many blokes drinking in a club will pick a girl in a short belt/t-shirt dress to talk to over a girl wearing a little more demure clothing.

Any

blabberwort wrote: »

So if the daughter is a good 5 inches shorter than the model you believe that it wont hang differently? surely that much size difference is going to have a drastic effect to the look compared to the model.

Of course it will. Massive difference all around.
That is why many people thing DSD might even end up sending it back.

No point of having a fit now until it is seen in real life basically. Many people order stuff because they love it on the model and don't realise how it will look on them.

Pollycat

blabberwort wrote: »

So if the daughter is a good 5 inches shorter than the model you believe that it wont hang differently? surely that much size difference is going to have a drastic effect to the look compared to the model.

But you weren't talking about the dress hanging differently - you made a blanket statement that the dress was

far too short even with tights.

without knowing how tall the OP's step-daughter was.

blabberwort wrote: »

As for the really? remark regarding me not being a prude, no I can emphatically say that not wanting my daughter to wear a dress where she may as well be wearing just a longline t-shirt to a nightclub does not make me a prude.

You've not told us how tall your daughter is.
If she's 5' 10" or taller then maybe you do consider the dress too short for clubbing FOR HER, although I'm sure (based on me seeing young girls out at the weekend in local pubs) it's less revealing than lots of outfits.
You mention 'belts and T-shirts' but this dress may not be that short on lots of girls.
In fact, it might just be the same sort of length that YOU used to wear.

blabberwort wrote: »

Maybe I just care that my daughter isnt made to look like sex is available to all and sundry blokes in a club, because lets face it, wrong or not, many blokes drinking in a club will pick a girl in a short belt/t-shirt dress to talk to over a girl wearing a little more demure clothing.

You have an incredibly low opinion of the male species.

Mupette

I think the model forgot to wear some trousers.

As a bride to be i'd be a bit miffed that all the men will be waiting for the girl to bend over and show all her lady assets.

It is a nice err long top. Ok so i don't have the lovely legs to wear that as is, but then again i wouldn't want to show my lady assests when bending over in for example a supermarket.

stejobeth

sharpee wrote: »

Remember she is only 16 and can easily pull off this dress

My daughter (15 next month) would love this dress and it would look lovely on her, its a young style.

Pollycat

Mupette wrote: »

I think the model forgot to wear some trousers.

As a bride to be i'd be a bit miffed that all the men will be waiting for the girl to bend over and show all her lady assets.

It is a nice err long top. Ok so i don't have the lovely legs to wear that as is, but then again i wouldn't want to show my lady assests when bending over in for example a supermarket.

It's only a 'nice err long top' if you're 5' 10" or taller!!!!!

On someone smaller, it won't be that short - a size 10 is 33.5" long from neck to hem.
On me, that would be a dress 2 or 3 inches above the knee.
I certainly wouldn't show all my 'lady assets' if I were to bend over in a dress that length.

And what does a supermarket have to do with it?
I thought the OP said her step-daugter was planning on wearing it for a wedding, not to do the weekly shop in Asda.

Apricot

I think it's lovely for a wedding and there are far worse things that DSD could have picked to wear. I don't know why you have made such a big deal tbh OP it really is not your decision what she wears to the wedding & she may order the dress, decide she doesn't really like it and then send it back - meaning you and OH have argued aboutr nothing.

I would suggest DSD orders it and tries it on with you and OH there - if you both agree it's unsuitable then that needs to be discussed calmly with her but at 16 she is old enough to make her own clothing decisions so if she really likes it then short of univiting her from the wedding there is nothing you can really do.

shellsuit

My daughter wore a similar shaped dress for a friends party last month. She's 13 and 5'4. If she'd been a lot taller, it would have looked as short as the one in the OP.