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Dramatic ‘mother of the bride’ dress sparks hilarious responses on Twitter
The dress has been compared to a ‘wicked stepmother’ costume
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Your support makes all the difference.An image of a floor-length black couture gown that is being advertised as a "mother of the bride" dress has gone viral on Twitter.
While there is not set formula for what a mother of the bride dress should look like, this one certainly doesn't fit the mould, with social media users claiming it would be more appropriate for a revenge-thirsty villain in a Disney film.
Hence why tweets of the gown spread like wildfire after one user spotted it on online retailer Etsy.
The dress, designed by couture bridal brand Tonena, is described as a "black mother of the bride dress" and features an open back, mesh oversized sleeves and a feathered skirt.
Rave Sashayad wrote a series of tweets poking fun at the idea of any mother of the bride wearing such a dress given the dramatic sartorial statement it would make.
"’DARling, did you forGET to inVITE your MOTHER????’-- me in this extremely normal mother-of-the-bride dress, slamming into my daughter's wedding mid-Mendelssohn while a lightning storm rages outside. the guests gasp in terror [sic],” she wrote in a tweet on Monday that has since garnered more than 18,000 likes.
The post prompted a flurry of hilarious responses from other Twitter uses, all of whom rejoiced in creating fictional scenarios based on a mother of the bride arriving in the dress.
“If one of you wants to buy me this dress I will wear it to your wedding and play the villainous and possibly magical mother you want your fiancé to fear and avoid from then on,” wrote one person.
The year is 2060.
— peamilk (@madison_alleman) March 12, 2019
I’m 65 years old, but my skincare routine and medical technology has rendered me an elegant, ageless beauty.
A perpetual bachelorette, I arrive solo, wearing this, to my only child’s wedding.
The 3 possible fathers are also present.
A scene is caused. https://t.co/PGHoVCdrzq
Before you ask, yes there WILL be multiple wig changes and yes I will shout "don't you TOUCH my DIAMONDS, they're on LOAN from GEORGIO"
— Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey) March 12, 2019
"I'm planning on wearing this to my billionaire husband's funeral," teased another.
Meanwhile, other Twitter users labelled the dress "bizarre", "sassy" and entirely unsuitable for a mother of the bride.
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