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Dressed To Kill (The Bride, That Is!)

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 21, 2008

Butt bows and puffy sleeves and sea-foam green capelets.

Parasols and other props (a peasant girl waistlet?!).

Shiny purple ruffles with dyed-to-match shoes

These are a few things we never would choose.

And yet, for a friend, we will wear anything, it seems, when we line up at the altar as a bridesmaid. Even if we suspect the get-up was deliberately chosen to make us look a little less special than the bride.

Few of us can claim the pain of poor Jane (played by Katherine Heigl), whose closet is stuffed with goofy gowns in the new movie "27 Dresses." But most of us have walked down the aisle in at least one loser look - a floppy hat in a sherbet shade, perhaps, or even a Klingon costume.

How awful can it get? We want you to tell us.

Send us a photo of your worst bridesmaid dress - preferably with you in it - to baylife@tampatrib.com, or mail to BayLife Bridesmaid Dress, The Tampa Tribune, 200 S. Parker St., Tampa FL 33606.

Please include the following information:

•Your name, phone number (not for publication) and where you live.

•The story of the dress. (Include the bride and groom's names, your relationship to them, when the wedding took place, who chose the dress, what the other bridesmaids thought of the dress, etc.)

•What did you do with the dress after the wedding?

We'll share our favorites in an upcoming issue of BayLife and in a Snap gallery on TBO.com.

Deadline is Sunday. Photos cannot be returned.

Kim Franke-Folstad

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