I bought a store sample dress and it was an entire size too big for me. I'm attaching two pictures. The first picture with is where I was in the bridal shop. I didn't have on a crinoline skirt, instead I just had my dress draped across a big stool I was standing on. I took my dress to an alteration shop in my community and I think I should have seen the red flag when she said she was overwhelmed with how much material my dress had because it was so large and I showed her a picture of how the dress was supposed to look and she said she still had a hard time envisioning the flow of the dress. Well she altered it and I still feel like it can be taken in, but when I started to look at my bridal portraits that I took, my dress just looks so much different than the way it did when I was in the bridal shop. Do you think I should add a crinoline skirt to make the bottom part stand out and not suction to my legs? I also notice that it seems to have more draping in the dress on the right side. I'm not sure if she added more pleating and tucks instead of cutting the hem from the bottom. I just don't know if because she did this, it changed the draping of the design too much. I'm going to take it to another seamstress because when I picked it up from the alteration shop, she didn't bustle it and said she didn't do it bc she couldn't figure out what bustle would look the best on my dress bc of the busyness in it. What do you think I need to do? Do you think if it gets taken in more bc it's still big on the hips? BTW, my heels dug in the grass which is why it looks so long.
