By Jennifer
On Shiny Orb you can browse thousands of
inexpensive bridesmaid dresses on a single website. When you first arrive on the results page, all of these dresses will appear in your search results. To easily navigate this large selection, slide the price bar to fit your budget and uncheck the style-icons to narrow your selection to the dress length, sleeves, and neckline of your desire. You can also filter by designer by clicking the "Choose Designer" link.
We also wanted to offer some additional information and tips to help you search more effectively.
- Cocktail and Tea length: Typically, cocktail dresses fall above the knee while tea length dresses fall right below. However, dress manufacturers often interchangeably use these two categorizations. So, if you're looking for dresses with lengths around the knee, choose both cocktail and tea lengths in the search.
- Straight and Sweetheart Necklines: Sweetheart necklines can come in different strengths of "sweetheart-ness." Often what is called a "modified" sweetheart is a very gentle sweetheart curve that may sometimes be categorized under Straight.
- V-neck and Sweetheart Necklines: V-necks typically have straight sides to form a V while sweetheart necklines have a curve. Occasionally, the curve may appear straight or the straight may appear curved so you may want to select both categories to capture these borderline cases.
- Off-shoulder and Cap sleeves: Off-shoulder straps are usually categorized by the width of the strap. However, very wide off-shoulder straps may be found in the Cap sleeves category.
- Short and Long Sleeves: Short sleeves that reach no farther than halfway down the upper arm are categorized under Cap sleeves. Any sleeves longer than that can be found in the Other straps/sleeves category.
- Multiple Spaghetti straps: Spaghetti straps that are bunched as two or three straps together to form a larger strap are grouped under Spaghetti.
- Spaghetti straps and Strapless: Many strapless dresses have optional spaghetti straps, so if you are set on a spaghetti strap dress, be sure to look through the strapless dresses, too. Sometimes these spaghetti straps can also be converted into halters.
- Halters: Halter dresses are not given their own neckline or strap category because they can span a variety of neckline shapes and strap thicknesses. If you want a thin-strap halter dress, for example, select the categories spaghetti straps, and strapless (per the above tip) for the sleeves and select all the neckline styles.
- Focus on style, not color: Most bridesmaid dresses are made to order and can be made in a huge variety of colors. Designers are well aware of the need to color-coordinate a wedding. Focus on finding the dress style you want, then click over to the vendor page to see the colors available.
These are just a few tips from our experience in working with numerous bridesmaid dresses. If you have any additional questions or tips, please leave us a comment or email us at
info@shinyorb.com.
What if a dress is miscategorized? If a dress has slipped into an incorrect category, notify us by going to that dress' product page and clicking on the "Miscategorized?" link on the left side. A box will pop up with a textbox, where you can let us know how you think the dress ought to be categorized. We'll then personally re-categorize the dresses. Thank you for your help!
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