You might remember my sappy love letter to Anthropologie about their Take Action dress. It was a beautiful-looking dress from my favourite clothing store, and in our wedding colours, to boot! A match made in heaven, right? I even found a time when both Cinnamaids and I were free to meet at the mall! No mean feat!
The Take Action Dress - Anthropologie
We met at the mall, and all was well. Cinnamon Buns dropped me off and said hi to the girls before going to get an oil change and groceries. I thought I was getting a great deal, being left at my favourite store while he traipsed around Safeway!
We picked up the dresses that had been reserved for my girls to try on, and went straight to the fitting rooms. I suppose the first warning sign should have been when the 5’4″ bridesmaid and the 6’1″ bridesmaid said they took the same size in dresses. I suppose my hope deep down was that it would fit tall Cinnamaid A, then we could get Cinnamaid K’s hemmed.
There are no pictures of them in the dressing room because…it wasn’t pretty. And neither wanted to stay in the dress long enough to be photographed! Needless to say, it was about the right length on Cinnamaid K, and uncomfortably short on Cinnamaid A. The cute little pleat at the neck made the top bag weirdly on each of them. And, there’s something a little odd going on the straps—I’d expect the outside of the strap to be straight up and over the shoulder, but they taper towards the neck a bit. I wouldn’t say it was ‘weird’ but the lines of the garment over the shoulder were not what I generally expect from a dress. It sounded so perfect for us on paper (and in model-less photos) but in reality, it definitely wasn’t meant to be. I was so set on it when we went into the store, but it was easy to leave it behind once each girl came out of the dressing room to an overwhelming “eh…”
The Cinnamaids got out of their matching dresses pretty fast, and we browsed around the rest of store. I hadn’t realised that I would be introducing them both to Anthro that day! Our store is only a couple months old, but I’ve been stalking the website for so long I forget other people don’t know about it.
I have found a new love since the disappointment with the Take Action dress, though:
The Painted Roses Dress by Amanda Archer. It comes in all sorts of colours (samples are on their way to me right now!) and better yet, it is custom made. As in, one can be 6″ shorter than the other!
Did you have your heart set on something, only to find it in no way suited your bridal party? Was it easy to move on?
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