PM
The silhouettes of these dresses is the same. The differences are in the detailing and there they are night and day.
The Dibujo dress is two piece. The lace over jacket ages the model the heavy long tight sleeves and extended row of buttons distracts from her face you are too busy looking at the lace to see anything else in the front. The back is a standard. It looks like the designer did not make any effort because expects it to be obscured by some massive veil. Without the jacket there is no detail to the dress at all it looks like a muslin pattern for a prom dress.
Look at the lightness in the HS1368 dress. The open V and peplum waist in the front is very flattering. The short sleeve is more demure and youthful. In the back the detailing is distinctive and fresh especially the reinterpretation of the train as an extended ribbon bowed at the waist.
Go with the HS1368 and choose a shorter veil that does not hide this elegance. Personally, I'd choose some light tiara for the headdress.
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Posted 4 years ago by ailuromaniac #
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*gasp* ailuromaniac... I am honestly impressed...
Thank you so much, your advice will be taken very much into consideration... didn't see it that way before...Posted 4 years ago by PipasMumSpain #
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PM..All my co-workers and I have been looking over the whole collection..although they are all beautiful, like ailuromaniac said, many look like prom dress...the overall vote from the group here (if that means anything) agrees that the HS1368 is the best choice, elegant, not too busy, you are too beautiful of a lady to have everyone looking at a busy dress and not seeing the smile on your face...
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LOL 2bpurring! All your co-workers?
If someone ever asks I'll say I organized my wedding with my efficient group of a hundred or so American counsellors!Oh and take a look ate the www.pronovias.com collection...
Posted 4 years ago by PipasMumSpain #
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For whatever it's worth, I like HS 1368 better.
Posted 4 years ago by Tigerlilly #
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Ok. What's with the Pronovias designer collections? Are you under some kind of pressure to say "My gown is designed by.....Big name here"? Or have you just not found "IT"
I have poured through a blister forming catalog of unimpressive designs. I still find the HS1368 head and shoulders beyond these.
Posted 4 years ago by ailuromaniac #
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You are SO SO right ailuromaniac... Pronovias have dressed about 80% of Spain's brides! It is huuuge here. There is a lot of pressure on where you buy your gown... Pressure I don't have thanfully... but I started looking there because it's the first name I found...
I also like HS1368... and because of all the reasons you put in your post before...Posted 4 years ago by PipasMumSpain #
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Late to the party but I agree with Ailuromanic's assessment.
I also think that the simplicity of the design and the subtle details that are worked into it will only add to your beauty rather than have people look and say "What a beautiful dress" they will only say "What a beautiful bride"
Look at it from this perspective. The dress is a frame for you, like it would be for a painting. It should not draw attention to itself, but instead accentuate who you are and your own beauty.
I think this dress does that perfectly.
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If I had pictures of the two gowns side by side without any identifying marks and were asked to pick the couture design, I would choose the HS1368.
I have nothing against couture. I even have several patterns from VOGUE that I have re-interpreted over the years mixing and matching various elements with the same silhouette and occasionally changing the silhouette by changing the bodice or skirt/pant element with a different designer.
Couture for Coutures sake doesn't do it for me. Fashion must always remain a practical art because it needs to be wearable.
Posted 4 years ago by ailuromaniac #
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Oi, that's cheating!!! ;-)
I think the less expensive dress is stunning PM.
Posted 4 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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PM, you will be beautiful whatever you choose. Have you gone and tried any dresses on yet? The reason I ask is that when I got married, I ended up with a completely different dress than the one I thought I wanted. (the 2,000 dresses did nothing for me the 200.00 simple dress was perfection) It is most important to get a dress that enhances your natural beauty and does not distract from it. When one of my best friends got married she too had a pre-conceived notion of what her dress should look like. (fairy princess) We visited many many bridal shops in Atlanta, Georgia and none looked quite right. At our last shop there was a dress that I thought was absolutely beautiful. It was simple, elegant, un-fussy, unbeaded and made of beautiful silk. My friend turned her nose up at it. BUT after trying on 15 other gowns, I told her that I wouldn't leave the shop until she tried the one I liked. Once it was on she looked 5 inches taller and 40 pounds thinner! She did not need the beads and bangles, she needed the dress that showed HER. Yep she bought the dress I made her try and was a lovely confident bride!
Posted 4 years ago by KYKAT 12 23 #
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Hi Pipa's Mum! I love the 1368. It is so beautiful. There is a trend in the USA now. Brides take their dresses after the wedding and have photos made of themselves wearing the wedding dress doing something you would never do in a wedding dress! Some brides are swimming in their dresses as a photographer snaps away. The new brides are realizing that if they have a daughter, it is likely that the daughter will not want to wear her mom's dress. One bride here in Tupelo, Mississippi went to an infamous bar and restaurant that had burned and had her photos taken in the burned out remains in her wedding dress. Very cool! I will keep checking to see which dress you decide upon.
TinafishPosted 4 years ago by tinafishfrombirthplaceofElvis #
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Ugh, tinafish! The Scots in me could NEVER condone the ruination of such expensive and intricately-made attire! What an insult to all the people who made it possible.
Ladybug needed three dresses for upcoming events--two semi-formal, one formal. We hunted thrift shops and found two of the dresses we needed there. We remember seeing one wedding gown there that weighed 40 lbs. if it was an ounce due to the hand-beading and the voluminous train (it took three hangers to support it). That dress could have cost close to $10,000 new, and if it's still there, someone can have it for $125.
A woman with ANY semblance of class would donate a wedding gown she didn't want to keep so that someone who needs a break can have the beautiful wedding she deserves. I hope I never meet a "gown burner"; perhaps I should be saving for my bail money now in case I ever do.
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PM, I really like HS1368, It is just beautiful. I really like the bow in the back. Of course you will be quite stunning in either dress but I like the second dress better. I quite agree with all of the comments by Ailuromaniac at the top of this page. (((HUGS)))
Posted 4 years ago by BoogerMercurysMama #
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I couldn't open the first dress but I don't want to. HS1368 is stunning!
Posted 4 years ago by KapitiKats in NZ #
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gatakitty, you misunderstood. the dress was not burned. the bride wore her dress and had her picture taken in the burned ruins of this bar and rest. that meant something to her. the younger women getting married aren't interested in wearing someone elses dress and they recognize that they did not won't to wear their mother's outdated dresses that have been packed away in moth balls. sorry you are so offended but it is a trend in the united states currently. if a bride is crazy enough to spend $10,000 on her dress she has every right to do with it what she wants.
Posted 4 years ago by tinafishfrombirthplaceofElvis #
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Good Luck Pipa's Mum, I am sure which ever dress you choose will be perfect and beautiful.
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