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[katranna]

Why can't anyone dress Christina Hendricks properly? Is it really that hard? Does she herself have terrible taste, since they manage to dress her just fine on Mad Men? What is UP with that?

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[electricwitch]

The way those dresses ruck up at the waist really bothers me. Probably because this happens to me in ALL DRESSES EVER. Only she ought to hit whoever caused it over the head because it's soooo annoying when that happens.

[katranna]

Do you know what's the cause of that? It happens to me sometimes because (I think) my ribcage is too wide for the proportions of the dress, so that causes the fabric to gather and bunch below. But that shouldn't happen on dresses made to someone's measurements!

[electricwitch]

In my case it's either because the waist is too long or because the waist is too wide, or the narrowest part of the waist is at the wrong place. Because there is a very large difference between both the top part of my torso and the waist and the hip, once the waist is even a little too high or low everything goes wrong. Often it combines with being too large.

I'd say in your case it's probably a question of length of the waist or position rather than width, since your figure otherwise does not seem to have as big an extreme between top, waist and/or bottom as I do or, in this case, Christina does.

It definitely should not happen on tailor-mades! Her dress makers are probably too lazy or embarrassed to have to make a dress to the specifications of a body so obviously not the modern ideal.

[katranna]

Well in my case, I've decided my rib cage must be proportionally too wide because there are often dresses that fit me everywhere else but won't zip up over my ribcage, or that strain across the bust--and my bust is very moderate. I recently bought a bridesmaid dress, and I had to get a size 4 because a size 2 simply wouldn't zip up when it came to the ribcage level--but the size 4 was too big everywhere else, including the actual bust line (above the ribcage).

That said, I don't have a very narrow waist either, so maybe you're right, and it has to do with torso length and width issues rather than the ribcage. I guess maybe even the whole ribcage dilemma is because of waist position as you say, because you're right--when I look at myself in the mirror, I certainly don't think I'm too curvy. My torso looks pretty straight up-and-down to me. I really wish someone who knows about these things would measure me and explain what the issue is, because it's weird when clothes don't fit and I don't even know exactly why.

[acrylic_after]

Oh man that's dress has really got the internet going. Men fucking love it, 'cause, well, y'know. Women have more mixed feelings. But we always do, don't we?

[katranna]

Oh, if it only fit right and were that brighter color, I would love it also! I would even settle for it just fitting right, color be damned. Just... why can't they put her in clothes that have a proper fit? I swear I know "regular" girls with curvy figures, or figures that aren't anywhere near Hollywood standard, and they manage to dress themselves flatteringly even without her budget...

[acrylic_after]

Formal wear for ladies is really hard to get right, for my tastes. She does just have this fab Jessica Rabbit shape, most formal wear is too structured to really do it justice maybe.

Boobies: woot.

[portableteejay]

Dresses for the most part are a mass produced item made to a scaled median spec of the female form (sizes). So when a woman buys a dress in her "size" it'll usually fit her somewhat properly and the give of the fabric will usually iron out the rough spots.

Saffron is way-the-fuck out of any median spec, so unless she gets a dress specifically tailored to her dimensions, she won't fit properly in one.

[katranna]

Yeahhhhh but that was my point. A) she has the means to hire a seamstress for red carpet occasions, and should be doing so precisely because her proportions are so far off from median.

B) Various friends of mine who are also way-the-fuck-out of median specs manage to dress themselves better than that, and with less means.

C)The peach ruffle dress WAS made specifically for her by Christian Siriano. The fact that it STILL doesn't fit is why I'm so dumbfounded.

[trumplover]

Just a thought: The lump in her dress may be the supports in a girdle or bra bending out of place.

I also imagine the dress looks different when she's picking it out and trying it on from when she's on the red carpet under the flash of a thousand cameras.

And, also, some people just don't know how to dress themselves.

[katranna]

Oh, that's almost certainly what it is. But that's why I'm saying--her support needs to be built in! The Christian Siriano dress... well, he's a designer and he tailor-made it for her, it should have been his responsibility to build in the kind of bustier that wouldn't warp when she put it on.

The red satin dress... that looks more like she got it somewhere herself and wore it with a girdle/bra, but man, that's so extremely noticeable I'm sure it would have been visible even at home. That one, I mean, I admit it's tricky. I don't see how that dress works unless you go braless (or wear it with those silicone stick-on bras) and I understand that is not really an option for her. I'm not sure what I would've done in her place if I wanted to wear that specific dress (the waist-gap fit issues aside).