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"You go to great lengths for a special occasion dress whether it's a wedding gown or a Prom dress. So stick with a hemline that suits the occasion and flatters your figure and height!"

Wedding guests: Keep it at the knee or just below for informal and daytime wedding plus cocktail dresses. Save the longer floor-length dresses for evening wear and formal weddings, usually after 6 p.m. Note: the fuller the skirt, the fancier the dress!

Use these figure flattering tips picking a skirt for your formal dress, wedding gown or wedding dress.

• Circular skirts: can pose challenges like getting in and out of cars.
• Bouffant “Dreamy! Perfect for a Prom Princess or Quinceanerea”.
• Floor length: formal dresses vary from just under one inch from the floor to just over one inch from the floor.
• Full skirts: simple styles, without any fussy details, slim heavy hips
• Handkerchief: Ideal for wedding guests or anyone dancing! Avoid if you’re 5’2” or under.
• Tea-length: ideal choice for cocktail dress, Homecoming Dress, informal wedding gown or dress and wedding guest.
• Trumpet: sound the warning not the easiest style to sit, kneel or dance in.

Skirts
Here are the basic skirts:

Ball gown: full skirt often with fitted bodice and layered tulle
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Ballerina: full skirt just skims the ankle.
Bouffant: puffed out skirt
Bustle: fabric gathers in the back adding fullness
Circular: Hemline forms a circle - like a hoop.
Floor-length: floor length formal dresses vary from just under one inch from the floor to just over one inch from the floor. Despite the name this skirt stops short of the floor so the hemline hits about the toe of your shoes or the top of your foot.
Full: pouf skirt not as full as a bouffant skirt but still poufy a
Mermaid: slim fitting style flares out from about the knee level
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Handkerchief: pretty panels at bottom of the skirt end in points that
give this hemline its name. Image of Steal the show
Street: common, popular skirt length - typically just at or just below the knee.
Tea-length: falls just above ankles or reaches mid-calf. Image of crystal dress
Trumpet: narrow skirt fits closely at the hips then flares from just below the knee.

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