16 Bridesmaid Multiway Dress Styles Using 1 Birdy Grey Dress
In this style guide, I’m going to show you some bridesmaid multiway dress styles. My wedding is coming up soon, and I went with a company called Birdy Grey for the bridesmaids’ dresses.
I was excited to go with them because they have an incredible project that they partner with called The Princess Project; it’s a recycling service for your bridesmaid dresses because, as we all know, you rarely wear your bridesmaid dress again after a wedding. This project donates gently-used dresses to teens in need of prom and homecoming dresses, which is just so cool.
I wanted to share with you the really fun DIY aspect of these bridesmaids' dresses. They have a convertible neckline, so there are lots of different ways that you can style these dresses.
The dress comes strapless, and there are these two really long strands of tulle on the front of the dress, which you can tie in different ways.
1. Simple knot
The first and easiest way to wear this dress is strapless, and you can just wrap the straps around the waist and tie them at the back however you like. You could go for a simple flowy knot like this.
2. Back bow
Or you could tie it into a bow.
3. Front bow
Alternatively, you could tie the strands into a bow on the front - really wherever you want the bow to be on the waistline.
4. Two wide straps
The next one you could do is two wide straps, so just kind of pull them up and over your shoulders.
You can do a criss-cross across your back and then tie it in a knot or a bow at your waist.
Or you could make regular straps that aren’t crisscrossed and loop them through the side belt loops and then wrap it around again and tie in a knot or a bow at the back.
5. Halterneck
The next one is a halterneck style where you can pull the strands up over your shoulders and tie them in a knot right around the back of your neck.
Then wrap the strands around your waist and tie them in the back.
6. Grecian style
The next possibility is a Grecian style. You tie a knot right at the strapless neckline and then put the straps over your shoulders just like a halter. You can create whatever design on the back you want.
7. Grecian sleeves
The next variation of this Grecian style is to make sleeves with the top of those streamers; just pull them right over your shoulders to create a bit of a more modest look.
8. Butterfly sleeves
The next sleeve option we have is like a butterfly sleeve where you can just pull them straight over your shoulders, criss-cross at the back, and then tie them in place.
9. One-shoulder
The next style is a one-shoulder one, and I actually wore this style to my sister’s wedding.
You can pull both of the strands over one of your shoulders and then kind of cross them in the back as I did here.
10. Twisted one-shoulder
You can also twist the strands together to make a one-shoulder back and front.
Here I finished it off by tying it up at the front.
11. Sleeved one-shoulder
Another variation of the one-shoulder is to make a sleeve, so just pull the outer strand down over your shoulder, tie them up at the back and remember that you can use those side belt loops to help secure the strands.
12. Grecian one-shoulder
This look is so unique and so fun; it’s like a split shoulder look.
It’s really easy to do, you just tie a knot before your shoulder, just like the Grecian style, and then take each one of the strands above the knot and split it over one of your shoulders. Then cross them in the back like so.
13. Halter-bow
Another fun style is to do a halter but with a little bow at the top of the back of your neck. I think it’s so cute, and the long streamers down the back create such a unique style.
14. Split-cross back
You can also split this into a cross at the back.
15. T-back
Or you can do a super fun t-back where you tie a knot above the base of your neck and then wrap the strands around your waist.
16. Two skinny straps
The last style I could think of was this simple look with two skinny straps. You just need to take each of those through the side belt loop, thread it through over your shoulders, and then back through that same belt loop and then tie it at the back or front.
You can also twist these straps to make them a little bit skinnier if you want to.
Bridesmaid multiway dress styles
I think there are an infinite number of ways that you can do the neckline of this dress and that’s why I think it’s such a cool design idea. It allows you to wear the dress again and again in different ways and feel like it’s unique each time.
If you’re into sewing, you could also try making something yourself and incorporating this multiway strap feature.
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