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 Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:56 am
How does one wear an empire waist dress with a petticoat and not look pregnant?
I'm thinking about buying one, but I'm not sure how it would look.
Does anyone have pictures of one being worn with a petti?
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:44 pm
I have no clue as to how an empire waist dress would look with a petticoat, but I do know that by themselves, empire waist dresses make you look pregnant.
If anything, I'd imagine a petticoat would help (maybe?). It would accentuate your true waistline (maybe?).
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:01 pm
What's an empire waist dress?
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:45 pm
An empire waist is when the waist line is cinched way up, below your chest...  Particularly popular in the late 1700s, early 1800s, as in the setting of "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensiblity" and "Emma" (at least, that is what I know the style from...).
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:24 pm
 This is the kind imma looking at...
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:17 pm
Well that looks much more less um, pregnant-esque. Have you tried just a regular petticoat underneat to see if that would work?
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:23 pm
Oh,I see now. Hmm..not sure what to tell you.Dx
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:13 pm
NOOKIE MONSTER Well that looks much more less um, pregnant-esque. Have you tried just a regular petticoat underneat to see if that would work?
I don't HAVE it. xD That's why I'm asking. I wouldn't want to get it and then end up looking pregnant...
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:45 pm
Oh... Haha don't mind my retardation! xd
I could scrounge up a normal empire waist dress and try it out, if you want. I don't know if that would be helpful... *trying desperately to be helpful*
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:55 pm
I wouldn't wear one. I've seen a lot of girls try to wear petti's underneath empire-waisted dresses and they deffently looked pregnant or fat. xD If your thinking about that one from Baby, it should be find without one- I'm assuing it's lined and has a small petti inside, like most brand skirts and dresses have. This should be enough. It's not like the traditional bell shape, so if you wore a petticoat underneath it you'd look kinda ugh.. Edit: I think a good example of how a big petti doesn't work well with an empire waist dress is this gem here
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:51 pm
Claret I wouldn't wear one. I've seen a lot of girls try to wear petti's underneath empire-waisted dresses and they deffently looked pregnant or fat. xD If your thinking about that one from Baby, it should be find without one- I'm assuing it's lined and has a small petti inside, like most brand skirts and dresses have. This should be enough. It's not like the traditional bell shape, so if you wore a petticoat underneath it you'd look kinda ugh.. Edit: I think a good example of how a big petti doesn't work well with an empire waist dress is this gem here Ugh, those dresses!
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:25 pm
i think a normal pettiecoat would look fine under and empire waist dress...all it will do is puff out the bottom of the dress...causeing a whole.... / kind of thing just more so...
i have acctually made a empire waisted loli dress...and plan on getting or making a pettiecoat for under it
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:38 pm
Heres a picture that has several girls wearing empire-waisted dresses....i dont know if they are wearing pettie's underneath but this picture was the first thing that popped into my head when i was reading this topic so yeah 
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:03 pm
What about a princess line petti? it's less poofy and would probably suit the shape of empire lined dresses much more. Having said that, most of the time, if the dress is from a lolita supplier, it'll probably have some flair to it anyway, observe this dress from a UK seamstress: Link It's not the best example of an empire line, but you notice that it doesn't have a petti under and it still has flair. (I want that dress really badly!)
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:59 pm
-C'est la lune qui conduit la danse...-
Nah, princess-line petti is too poofy as well.
Now that I actually -have- experience with my own empire waisted stuff ( xD )
I have to say that all you should wear is bloomers. Any kind of petti, even a light skirt-liner, will make you look like a triangle and it's not cute. x_x
-...quand le soleil sera couché dans ton âme froide.-
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