1.   And did that dress really need a train?

2.   A solid color looks best, and the dress needs no accessories other than perhaps sunglasses.

3.   Dresses needed padding and lots of petticoats to support balloon sleeves and ever-widening skirts.

4.   Since most women are shorter than that, dresses need hemming.

5.   The dress might also need to be altered, pressed and bustled.

6.   The tiny christening dress just needs hemming now.