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Everything worth knowing about finding, choosing, fitting and wearing your wedding dress.
Sculptural Wedding Dresses: Draping, Folds and Architectural Volume
Some wedding dresses decorate the body. Others appear to have been built around it. For 2027, bridal designers are increasingly treating fabric as a structural material: folding it, twisting it, draping it and engineering it into silhouettes that can look almost architectural. The…
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How Wedding Dress Skirts Get Their Volume: Tulle, Crinoline, Horsehair and Petticoats
A wedding dress skirt can float softly around the body, hold a perfectly architectural A-line or occupy enough space to require its own transportation arrangements.…
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Basque Waist Wedding Dresses: Why the Silhouette Is Everywhere Again
For years, bridal fashion concentrated almost obsessively on the natural waist. Then the waist started moving. Lower. Sharper. More sculpted. And suddenly the Basque waist…
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Wedding Dress Trains Explained: Every Length and Style
A wedding dress train is the section of fabric that extends behind the gown and trails along the floor. It may add only a few…
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Mermaid vs Trumpet vs Fit-and-Flare Wedding Dresses: What Is the Difference?
Mermaid, trumpet and fit-and-flare wedding dresses all follow the body before widening into a fuller skirt. Because the three silhouettes share the same basic idea,…
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Corset vs Bustier Wedding Dresses: What Is the Difference?
Corset and bustier wedding dresses can look remarkably similar from the outside. Both may feature visible boning, sculpted seams and a strapless neckline, but they…
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