101 Uses for a Bridesmaid Dress

I received this book as a bridesmaid gift and loved it. What a fun and clever idea! The illustrations are what really made me chuckle.

I love my girlfriends, but they have no taste when it comes to bridesmaid dresses!!! If you're going to buy an ugly dress, at least make it cheap. This book is a must-have for dealing with that depressing moment when you have to give the bride-to-be your credit card number to pay for a polyester, full-skirted, pale blue dress. Sure, it'll look good in the pictures.... but it will look even better as a jock strap for the new husband!!!!!Thanks, Cindy Walker!

Sorry just doesn't cut it for what I put my sister and best friends through last spring...and so to celebrate my one year anniversary I'm going to invite them all over and ask them to have their dresses in hand--then I'll supply the scissors, thread and red wine!! I can't wait to see what those dresses will become!

The illustrations are so wonderful -- I love the cute little baby dressed in the ruffles and satin of cast-off bridesmaid dress. No matter what the bride says (or how nice she is), you won't wear it again! That's where this great collection of wacky ideas comes in. I loved it!

We all know it's easier for men, they only have to rent the tux. Simple and basic, the most they have to fear is a wild cumberbund, or the color white. But women by tradition are at the mercy of the bride and her taste for plunging necklines, ruffles, and fuschia. Unlike the returnable tux, post-wedding, women are left with a dress too sentimental to throw away; too horrific not to hide, and one familiar place to banish it. But Cindy Walker has sounded a call to bridesmaid dresses everywhere to emerge from their closets! In an age of recycling and Martha Stewart, 101 USES FOR A BRIDESMAID DRESS presents dozens of inane alternatives to entombment to counter every bride-to-be's insistent 'you'll wear it again.' This book presents bridal party fashion as the ultimate in chic, with the bridesmaid dress as: The perfect blind-date look, how to be dressed for dinner with your (soon to be ex-)lover's parents, or what to wear to insure you'll be turned down for that Grand Jury. Or as Walker offers, why not turn your bridesmaid dress into gifts like: spectacular baby clothes for the happy couple's first child, a new jogging suit for Grandma, or a custom jockstrap for the athlete in your life. From lavender taffeta to trampoline, and canary silk to surfboard cover, the nonsensical suggestions offered in this book belong in every bridesmaid's survival kit. Whether you need to humor attendants, cheer up a friend, or figure out some way to make use of those torrents of tulle, 101 USES FOR A BRIDESMAID DRESS is the perfect irreverent gift for the ladies in your life with whom you swap bridesmaid horror stories, or for whom you have picked out the most darling red, white, and blue sequined cocktail dresses for your Fourth of July Wedding.