{"id":75,"date":"2010-01-11T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2010-01-11T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:26:00","slug":"you-dont-alter-vera-to-fit-you-you-alter-yourself-to-fit-vera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"You don’t alter Vera to fit you, you alter yourself to fit Vera"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not a Vera by any stretch of the imagination, but I just love that quote for it’s complete asinine-ness.<\/p>\n

My dress situation is weird. When we got engaged in April 08, I ran out and bought the dress I\u2019d tried on all 3 times I\u2019d gone dress shopping and was crazy in love with it. A little less than a year later, we completely changed our wedding plans from big family and friends bash in Miami to tiny vacation week with a few family and friends in Vegas. <\/p>\n

Most of you know that I\u2019ve been trying to sell the dress. What you might not know is that it\u2019s been on wedding boards since May. Realizing a sale may not happen, at least for the amount ($400 + shipping) that I want to recoup, I\u2019m debating hacking up the dress. Yes, I said it, hacking it up.<\/p>\n

I figure that one year on the classifieds boards will tell me the feasibility of selling it. Therefore, I am giving myself until May for it to sell. As in 4 months from now and around the time of graduation. This also gives me time to alter myself. Sad as it is, and for a very happy reason, I have gained a ridiculous amount of weight since purchasing the dress. Sure, the dress DOES have a corset back and DOES allow considerable loosening or tightening. But just how much do I need to drop to feel good wearing it again? That is the true question.<\/p>\n

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My question to you, my lovely blog friends\u2026 do you think this would look good at knee length or slightly longer? With maybe a dark blue petticoat underneath?<\/p>\n

Sure, I don\u2019t want to spend any more money on it, but as Meri pointed out, I will be spending money on a replacement dress. So if I can manage to alter it to my liking for about $200, the max I was planning on spending for a replacement, can I really complain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not a Vera by any stretch of the imagination, but I just love that quote for it’s complete asinine-ness. My dress situation is weird. When we got engaged in April 08, I ran out and bought the dress I\u2019d tried on all 3 times I\u2019d gone dress shopping and was crazy in love with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-image","category-dress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}