Fashion changes rapidly over the years. Something that looked good a few years or a decade ago, can seem totally ridiculous now.
And this can definitely be the case with bridesmaids dresses.
Bridesmaids dresses can get pretty tacky or ridiculous looking when you have a bold bride. And you also end up having to spend a pretty penny on those dresses.
We always wish that we could get some extra use out of the dresses since we only use them for one day.
But some would rather those dresses never see the light of another day.
Even Tammi Sauer had to apologize to her bridesmaids for the dresses she made them wear.
The children’s book author and mother has been married to her prom date, Ron, for more than 22 years.
Sauer wanted to mark the anniversary of her 1995 wedding and posted some pictures from the day on Facebook.
One of those pictures included the ultra 90s gowns she maid her bridesmaids wear. She had them made from a store bought pattern.
“Apparently, not everyone in 1995 wanted a long, off-the-shoulder gown in a burgundy brocade fabric that looked like a Thanksgiving tablecloth,” Sauer told BuzzFeed. “Those dresses were handmade by moms, grandmas, and random seamstresses.”
“Sorry about those dresses ladies,” Sauer wrote in her Facebook post.
One of her bridesmaids said she is still getting a lot of use out of her bridesmaid dress from Sauer’s wedding.
While brides often tell their bridesmaids that they’ll be able to wear their dress again, it rarely actually happens.
Sauer admits to TODAY Style that she 100 percent thought these dresses would be re-wearable.
“I remember eagerly telling my bridesmaids that they could just shorten their gowns and they’d have great little cocktail dresses,” Sauer said. “I don’t think anyone ever followed through on that suggestion.”
But Heidi Mann of Overland Park, Kansas got use out of her dress again.
She has always hung on to her special occasion dresses over the years.
And every once in a while, she’ll bust one out.
“Over the years, I’ve been known to randomly put one of (my former bridesmaid dresses) on, join whatever the family is doing and act like it’s completely normal to be wearing an off-the-shoulder evening gown,” Mann told TODAY.
“Of course, we all just crack up, like the guffaw-turns-silent-turns-choking kind of cracking up.”
She decided to take pictures of herself while she was wearing it around the house and share them on Sauer’s Facebook post. She thought it would be funny since Sauer was so apologetic about the dresses in her post.
And because, you know, she still gets so much use out of it.
“The thought of someone determined to get good use out of their bridesmaid dresses by wearing them for everyday activities made me laugh,” Mann said. “I knew it would make Tammi laugh, too, so I did it.”
And Mann did just about everything in her dress. She did laundry. She laid on the couch and read.
She also watered the plants and moved some tools around.
Mann caused a bit of a scene in the process.
“My son took the pictures, my daughter rolled her eyes at me, the neighbors stared, the dogs thought I had lost my legs and my husband asked me why I was wearing a lampshade, but everyone had a good laugh,” Mann says.
Sauer also got quite the kick out of it.
“I laughed. I cried. I’m pretty sure it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” she told BuzzFeed.
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