After all the royal wedding ceremony hype, "Bridesmaids", with every moment of its characters' raucous behavior, will be a welcome break from all that fancy English etiquette. We totally can't wait to see it. It looks hilarious! But amid making movement image plans and figuring out how to smuggle in some peanut M&Ms, we started reminiscing about a number of the god-awful bridesmaid dresses we've been forced to buy. It's been a frightening trip along memory lane, but we know we're not alone.
There are countless ladies across the country whose closets have been turned into graveyards for the pastel bridesmaid dresses they never, ever want to see again. Floor-length chiffon gowns, raspberry pink cocktail frocks with black velvet sashes, and strapless horrors that pinch in all the wrong places are hung like mummified relics, never, below any circumstances, becoming resurrected.
So we say, enough is enough. Out with the awful and in with the awesome.
We're not sure when jelly bean hues became customary, however the dresses we've found are decidedly not pastel yellow or cotton candy pink. In fact, they're not cheap bridesmaid dresses at all. Imagine that! We're not defined by categories, and neither is our fashion. So what if they're not technically made for standing next to some bride at the altar? Who cares. We think these 5 frocks will be great for bridesmaids, and great for, well, everything else. Date night? Check. After-work drinks? Check. Lunch with the bridezilla? Check, please.
