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Philadelphia Inquirer instore “Strapless, strapless, strapless!” Bob Mackie said in mock shock when somebody asked him about wedding gowns at a recent Moore College of Art and Design confab. The man who dressed Cher in sequins and precious little else recalled a time when a woman who showed up at the altar in a strapless dress would have been stoned. With actual rocks, he meant.
Meanwhile, the bustle, that 130-year-old Victorian survival, is also very big. And the real news is color, but usually not much of it: Imagine a pale mauve underlining, or clear glass beads applied with pale pink thread, or a touch of pastel embroidery. Next trend: Two-piece wedding dresses. (Will this mean bare-midriff brides?)
(Under the sketch)
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Copyright © 2002. Janice Martin. All rights reserved. |
Which
is not to say we’ve lost all sense of modesty and decorum. Dressmaker
Janice Martin reports that some clients resort to custom dress because
the strapless gowns they find in stores don’t come up high enough
under their arms to suit them. A popular Jessica McClintock dress comes
with its own shrug. And the Alfred Angelo dress that graced the cover
of the blockbuster spring issue of Bride’s magazine comes with optional
spaghetti straps and an organza shawl.