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Originally posted by AGDee
...They take your measurements and order your dress for the largest measurement. So, if your bust is a 12 and your waist and hips are an 8, you get the 12. If your bust is an 8 and your waist is a 10 and your hips are an 8, you get the 10.
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True story: THIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE!
I was in a wedding last summer - now my measurements had me at a 14 in two areas and an 18 in the other....the person advising the bride
told her to order me the 14!!! I luckily made it into DB, where I tried on a *similarly* cut dress in the 14, and couldn't get it anywhere near to zip up the back. I called the bride, who changed the order....fast-forward another couple of months, when I finally got back for the wedding and tried on the dress a week and a half before the ceremony - the 16 didn't fit, either! THe same thing happened with another bridesmaid, so the two of us had to go into DB, they had to call and rush order these dresses from their headquarters (or something along those lines), and I was the last to get my dress to me - 2 days before the wedding.
DB is getting a little crazy - the same dress that I had problems with was difficult for another bridesmaid...she's a size 0, and the dress doesn't come in a 0, so they ordered her a 2 - AND IT FIT PERFECTLY!
I agree with the earlier poster who said that most of the time, the dresses don't fit anyone right - this makes me think that you definitely need to work on getting bridesmaid dresses ASAP - and then make sure you don't need to alter it after everything's "perfect"
