BUSTLED
What could be more beautiful than a bustle on a wedding dress? Bustling is the gathering and tacking up of the train so that the bride can move around freely post-ceremony. Once a gown is bustled, it goes through a metamorphosis, as does the bride in it. There are two standard kinds of bustling techniques: overbustles and underbustles (French). Usually, bustling is secured with hooks and/or ribbons (narrow strips of grosgrain). Over-busting is the easiest and consists of picking up and tacking the skirt to the waist for chapel and cathedral lengths, or to the back of the knee for sweeps. Underbustling goes the other way—down and under, fastening to points on the under slip. Longer trains can take a combination of both over and under bustling all at once, and the results can be stunning. Since longer trains have become popular in the past few years, so has the ballroom bustle. This technique involves eliminating the entire train underneath the skirt and making it disappe...
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