Nic Narrates

Formerly perceived to be an anomaly of the bridal industry (see my bubbletastic bridesmaid dress for August wedding #1), bubble skirts seem to be cropping up everywhere this spring.

Are we really going there? Really? Is this what we’re doing now?

For example, in a quick perusal of Nordstrom’s online recommendations for wedding guests, these fine specimens of dress-making savvy appeared…..

Demure bubble (I’d be ashamed too):

Overpriced bubble ($630!!!!!):

I hate the bride bubble (how can they seriously be recommending white for a wedding?):

Cracked out bubble (go big or go home):

The only good reason that I can think of for owning a bubble skirt (other than not having a choice, i.e. the servitude of bridesmaidhood) is the potential that the hemming could anchor a skirt in place in a brisk Chicago gale. But even the convenience of not having to worry about flashing my lady bits to innocent bystanders isn’t a strong enough provocation (for me at least) to buy one. That and I’m a big believer in underwear…even a terrorist thong.

I stand on principle and assert that bubble skirts are hateful; toolbags even. They discourteously muck up (above examples excluded- those dresses are too far gone to be helped) what would otherwise be innocuous hemlines. Why bubble? Why?

Filed under: hateful, i heart fashion, poor choices, questionable attire, toolbaggery, WTF by Nic