Halter necks, necklaces and back jewellery

Hi girls,

I am quite new to this site, but have been reading alot of your discussions etc, and I have a question for you all......

My wedding dress is an halter neck and I am loving the back jewellery which you can get, but I am kinda guessing that you will need a necklace for the back jewellery to hang off, do you think a necklace will look OK with an halter neck dress???? Every photo I have looked at every bride has a strapless dress on????

Thanks in anticipation of your replies!!!

That's a good question actually...I really love halter necks and have seen some gorgeous bridal gowns with them, but never thought about how a back necklace would look with it. I'd imagine it might look quite odd at the front with the halter, but I guess it depends on how it's done.

Sorry no help at all, am I?! Maybe some of the jewellery HIB Hitchers like Purrfect Gems will be able to shed some light on what you could do?

Oh, and any pics of your dress?!

Thanks Stazzle, you can see my predicament!!

Here's a picture of my dress, its very plain really hence why I thought I bit of back bling would look quite nice..........

I made a "back" necklace for a bride a few weeks ago, she had a halterneck dress.  As I have not seen any pics yet of her in the dress with the necklace on, I cannot comment but she loves the necklace I made.

Here's a piccy of the necklace I did for her.

Thanks Debbie, that looks lovely, so it seems as if it can be done!!

You're dress is almost the same as mine.  Monsoon right?

I'm not having any necklace back or otherwise as I think it will detract.  How does yours fasten at the back?  Mine has ribbons.

I'm having a blinging bracelet instead.  Keeping it simple.

I wouldn't suggest a necklace at all at the front, earrings and a bracelet possibly. however the back jewellery Debbie made would be lovely if it could be attached to the dress fasening with a clip.

I wouldn't recommend a necklace with a halter neck as it just detracts too much and draws the eye away from the dress by giving the neckline an unnatural look. But I have seen  back necklaces built into the back of the dress either by being tied in to the ribbon or looped around a concealed button. So if you really wanted that then you could look for someone to make a single chain/decorated strand for you and attach it into the dress.

Personally I would go for a statement bracelet and earrings myself and that's what I tend to recommend to all my customers as well. 

yes, I'd say just earrings rather than a necklace. Could you fix the back jewellery to the actual fabric of the dress at the back?

I could certainly make a similar necklace to the bespoke one I made a while ago & could pop some little clasps on, so that it can be attached to the dress, that way you wont get a "front part" of a necklace just the back drops

Debbie

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Ms T:

I wouldn't recommend a necklace with a halter neck as it just detracts too much and draws the eye away from the dress by giving the neckline an unnatural look. But I have seen  back necklaces built into the back of the dress either by being tied in to the ribbon or looped around a concealed button. So if you really wanted that then you could look for someone to make a single chain/decorated strand for you and attach it into the dress.

Personally I would go for a statement bracelet and earrings myself and that's what I tend to recommend to all my customers as well. 

What ms T has said.  I think the whole point of your dress is to elongate your neck, and if you wear a necklace you are cutting your neck in half, if you see what I mean.  If you do want back jewellery then I'd pin/clip it to the dress.  But I think you are going to have to ensure that it matches the dress perfectly, as people will assume it is part of the dress; so if it wasn't a perfect match it would look odd in my opinion.  However if you go for ear rings & bracelet you are allowed a little more freedom, as jewellery compliments a dress, it doesn't always match it exactly.

Am I making sense or rambling?

Sorry for not replying sooner, trying to log onto this for about an hour!!!!!

Thank you all so much for your comments, I think that you have made my mind up that it probably isn't the best thing, which is kinda what I was thinking deep down but love the back jewellery so much!!!!

I will have to be on the look out for a killer pair of ear rings and bracelet instead!!!

Yes my dress is from Monsoon, but does not tie up with ribbon at the back, sorry can't remember your name, to reply to your personally!!!

Thanks ladies!!!!

If it's killer earrings you are looking for I should be restocking these from next week

Wow, they are lovely!!! Do you have a website that I could look on????  Many thanks!!

I have these on my site at the moment, feel free to contact me if I can help at all

Debbie

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