Buying Your Prom Dress Online
Consider looking at sites best in selling 'worn once' prom dresses - specially if you know the particular designer you want. eBay might also be worth a look and they have rules and rating procedures to give you added confidence when making your purchase.
A really significant thing to remember is size . Measure everything from your bust, waist and hips to your leg space. A lot of the popular prom dresses sites will exchange e-mails so you can send over your queries about size, colour or material.
But Beware...
If you're shopping from an American site the sizing is completely different to the UK! Also many sites charge shipping and handling fees that can see the price tag go up substantially.
You also need to leave much of time for any alterations that may need doing, (which is likely), and build in the cost of these too. Girls have found that by the time they've paid for the shipping and alterations they could have bought a similar dress from the high street!
Many girls are really happy with their online dresses and surely you get a fantastically wide selection . However, you do miss out on the whole prom dress experience of taking your mum or friends into the shop , being fussed over and attended to and acquiring the opinions of people you trust to tell you whether ' your bum looks big in this'!
Quite a new thing that both on and offline stores are now doing is a dress register so that anyone else from your school or college will know that a specific style and colour has already been selected . No pasty moments on the night!
Whichever route you select - online or in store - enjoy the whole experience. Prom Night is special and so is your choice of dress, shoes, accessories, make-up, hair style etc. etc. etc. So there's loads to do and right now - plenty of time to do it in. Happy shopping!
