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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 6:47 pm
some places shorten by taking it up at the waist, but there is a lot of fabric in this skirt. how are you in 8-inch stiletto heals?!
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 7:31 pm
The length is what has me really worried. Granny - thanks so much for that information. The bust measurement matches me as does the waist, so not much will have to be done in those areas hopefully. I need to email the seller again and ask her to give me an overall length measurement of the dress. That will likely tell the whole story. I'll keep you all posted!
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 7:38 pm
K, Froggie, will be waiting to here what you find out. Hope it works out perfect for you!! ETA: On the storing thing, I've heard that you should have it professionally. I think they suck all the air out of it and store it airtight. Then a couple of months before the wedding, take it out and let it hang.
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 1:59 pm
Hey Granny...guess what I just found out??? The dress is a petite! Froggie = petite!!! Yay me! The dress is not 100% mine yet...keep ya posted!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 2:14 pm
it's yours, it's yours!! hop on over and grab it!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 2:33 pm
i thought i would share with you how i met my husband. not the first one, which didn't count, anyway. i had just moved to san jose from boston. i had a 7-month-old baby, whose father refused to grow up and was going back to school and baby and i were supposed to live with his folks, so he could rent our home out and use the money to live on campus at harvard...because it was a whole 3 miles from our place, and he wanted to experience the whole 'college' scene while in business school. read this as: date college co-eds. well, there was no way in boston, er, hell, i was going to live with his mother who hated me worse than any lanny-mom could. so i packed up the baby one day and drove for 6 long days back to california. about a month after i got back home, i was managing a dental office in a shopping center location. there was a car parts place next door. this guy walked in looking like crapola. he had on ripped clothes and grime all over him and he smelled like toxic waste. he said he wanted a dental appointment. i thought to myself, he also needed a bath, clean clothes, a shave and someplace to live. i was pretty sure he was a homeless guy from under the overpass on nearby 680. we didn't take medi-cal (denti-cal), so i asked if he had insurance. that way, when he told me he had denti-cal, i could ship him down the street to the group that accepted it. he told me had delta dental (now california dental). well, they're huge, so i asked what company he worked for. he said lockheed. now i was certain he was not only homeless, but had stolen some poor sap's wallet. i asked what his dental group number was and he knew it without opening the (stolen) wallet. i grudgingly gave him an appointment and wrote next to his name "check out ins. before pt. arrives" well, he came back for the appointment wearing a 3-piece suit, cleaned up, shaved, etc., and smelling like calvin kline. now, i really felt bad for whoever he had rolled. one day i had to work late and he had an evening appointment. my sitter charged 10 bucks for every minute you arrived after 6:00 p.m. and lived about 15 miles from my job (she was closer to my cabin in the hills above san jose). my boss let me run get the baby and bring him back to work. i put him in one of those 'babysitter' seats that hang off tables, only i hung him on my countertop desk area. anyway, homeless guy took a liking to the baby. a few visits later, i had taken off my engagement ring. the chairside assistants tell me homeless guy talks about me all the time while he is in the chair. they tell me he is rich because he drives a vette and flies a plane. (one of them had to ask me which was more--a gallon or a quart, though--so i was pretty sure he wasn't rich). why did i have to be right about that ONE thing? LOL anyway, one day homeless guy arrives for an appointment, only it's a day early. i told him, "homeless guy, you have an appointment for 3:00 all right, but it's tomorrow at 3:00. do you have the card i wrote out for you?" homeless guy said he had forgotten the card, but would make a deal with me. "when i find the card, if it says tomorrow and you are right, i will take you to dinner. if it says today, and i am right, you will take me to lunch." i was right. we went to dinner on my 32nd birthday and have been together ever since, and will be married 18 years in october. he adopted ds and we had dd and sometimes he still looks like a homeless guy, but i found out it's when he has been working on cars or has been backpacking for days. the vette was not his. the planes cost a fortune to rent by the hour. front teeth are veneers. he had just retired from the air force and needed a civilian dentist and had seen our sign while at the auto parts store. but he was who he said he was and we have never had to sleep under an overpass
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 3:30 pm
Attention my TVCH friends!!! I bought the dress! It is mine! I'm sooooo happy! I'll have it in my possesion on Monday! Yay! Can ya tell I'm excited????? now, anyone wanna take a guess at what i paid for it? you'll never believe!
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 3:33 pm
Froggie, I am so excited for you. Froggie=Petite Dress=Petite!!! YEAH!!!!!! Be sure and take a pic and post it before you have it stored. YEAH!!!!!!!! FROGGIEGIRL
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Moondance
Member
07-30-2000
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 5:20 pm
Whoohoo! Congrats froggie... this is great!
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 5:26 pm
I'm so happy! I can't stop looking at the picture! Note to self: remind honey to bring digital camera home from work. Tabby...I loved your story on how you met your DH. Definitely a way better story than the first one!

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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 5:26 pm
I love your story, Tabby! Congrats Froggiegirl!!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:06 pm
yeah, on the dress, froggie!!!!
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 6:31 pm
Doing Happy Dance for Froggie! Great Dress!
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 12:17 am
Yay, Froggie!! So...how much did you pay???
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 12:40 am
Froggie, that has to be the most beautiful dress I have ever seen, one I would want for my wedding, you are so blessed to find the most fabulous dress for your wedding. I have to say, did you get it for less than $2000. I am not a good guesser of costs, but I would think that is a fair price, of course if it is designer it must be at least $25,000. I hope you got a wonderful deal, what was it???????
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 5:34 am
Tabby..you are such a great way of telling stories!! Yea Froggie!!!! Being 5' myself, I understand the joy of finding clothes that fit! It is a beautiful dress.
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 9:26 am
Hey Froggiegirl, that dress is amazing. You are so lucky to have found the perfect dress so soon. If I had to guess I would say you paid $2,500 - $3,500. I think the real cost of the dress is about $8,000 - $10,000. Am I close or WAYYYY off?
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 2:05 pm
i am going to guess you got it for under 1,000 dollars because you are such a smart froggie. it is similar to an oleg cassini i saw recently, which i think sold for about 1,300 bucks.
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 3:47 pm
Ok, I just got home from work and then getting my nails done, and read all your posts...laughing through each one. Let me just say that it is a designer dress, a Winnie Couture gown to be exact. I recall seeing a few ads for their dresses in the couple (ok, 10!) bridal magazines I now own. I always thought their dresses were beautiful! But when you see "couture" you turn the other way and just dream, especially when you're on a budget, which I am. The website does not list prices, you have to get in contact with one of the stores that sell their dresses to even be quoted a price. So I called two stores near me that sells them and asked for a price quote on the style number. Each store had a different price due to their mark-up but let's just say they averaged $1400. Yes I said $1400! Now, according to some of your guesses (minus Tabby, who's a smart cookie!) you were way off base, as I was because I would swear it was a $5000 dress. Now this was all research done after seeing the dress on ebay! Yes I said ebay! I admit it, I bought my wedding gown on ebay!!! Now for the big reveal...I only paid $305 including shipping!!!
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 3:59 pm
WooHoo Froggie! Great price!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, February 27, 2004 - 9:03 pm
Hahahaha, Froggie, you are one smart cookie! AND it is a petite and no alterations. Yay! I would say that is about a thousand extra bucks for the honeymoon or the reception. At least.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 7:46 am
WOW!!! Incredible deal!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 8:14 pm
froggie, i bought a gold watch on eBay for 305 bucks about 3 years ago, and it still sells in my jewelry store for 1,200 bucks! i am so proud of you! i was going to guess 399, but didn't want to upset you if you paid more for the dress! not that i thought it wasn't worth a lot more, but you were so 'wiggly with excitement', i knew you got a phenomenal deal!! good for you, darlin' froggie!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 8:15 pm
p.s. you know what you have to wear with this dress shoe-wise, right? unless it's very long on you, it cries out for ballet slippers. a lot of brides wear them.
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Monday, March 01, 2004 - 8:08 am
Nice work Froggiegirl. I wish I had you around when I was planning my wedding 
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