American Bustle Wedding Dress Pictures

An American bustle also referred to as an "outer bustle", has hook and loop sets or button and loop sets that are sewn on to the outside of a wedding gown. with corresponding loops.

Then loops are added lower on the outside of the dress to lift the train up off the floor or have just a sweep of the train still dragging behind.

If hooks are used they are usually hidden under lace or pleats in the back of the gown so that they don't show.

Or if the hooks can't be hidden then covered satin buttons that match the wedding dress are used.

The American style bustle can be done with as little as one point or it could take up to nine or more points.

Most gowns these days don't have the long chapel and royal trains of the 90"s which took a lot of bustle points to lift it up. Nowadays most trains can be brought up with about 4 to 6 points.

Here is what outer bustles use to look like in the 1990's...

American bustles used to have many points because the trains were cathedral or longer in length. They use to stick out and add additional pouf to the back of the gown as you see here. This bride came to me in 2009 to restyle her mother's dress. One thing we changed was to update the look of the bustle to make it look a little flatter. See the results below...

Now lets take a look at modern day designs...

American Bustle Pictures

Below are pictures of some of the American style wedding dress bustles I created for my bridal alterations clients.

This was a shorter chapel length train that bustled lower at the back.

This is an American style bustle of a fishtail train on a trumpet style gown.

The two pictures above show a sheer overlay on satin outer bustle.

This is the one point butterfly American style bustle. This bride wanted to show off the detailed embroidery on the train of her gown.

These pictures show what a sweep train looks like bustled.

See how this American (under) bustle show all the design details of the train.

Here you see a wedding gown that has over flaps on the back skirt
lifted up into an outer bustle.

This bustle was done with a combination of an American style
bustle and a French bustle.

The outer bustle is tucked up under the decorative over drape.

This outer bustle has the tails of the sash over it.

This is a butterfly American bustle style. The wings you see can be pushed down if you don't like the folds of fabric sticking out.

The above dress is a picture of a pick up style wedding dress that was bustled using the outer bustle.

This is a bustle that has to styles combined. Here you see and Americn bustle style combined with French bustle.

The chiffon and satin underlayer are bustle together here.

Above you see a picture of an American bustle on a wedding gown with a sash and tie ends at the back. The tie ends were almost as long as the train and had to be looped so that when the train was bustled, they would not be too long.

So as you can see... there are variations of how the outer American style bustle looks when it is bustled. The way it looks depends on the length of the train, how high it is placed and the number of points used to hook it up and the design of the back of the wedding dress.

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