Right Underwear For Your Loose Boho Wedding Dress

Loose boho wedding dress style is something modern brides love and search for. But what do you wear underneath thin and delicate fabrics that possibly skim your every curve and hide absolutely nothing? Our five underwear tips go over shaping, smoothing, colors, next to nothing -way and picking only one undie over others. We also talk a bit about handling your curves and some TMI details you might need to consider. 

1. Stop To Think About Shaping

Your need of shaping and supporting underwear is very much tied to your body shape and your needs. Many loose fitting gowns sport the deep cut back that’s so very trendy right now but can give a real challenge for brides with bigger cup sizes. 

Good options for those situations are speciality bras, tape and silicone bras and backless bodysuits. 

For brides with smaller breasts all you might need are niple covers to smooth up the action at the front. 

Lower tummy can be something you want to smooth over and there your best bet is the old fashioned high rise panties with elastic support panel. Just check that they don’t show if your dresses back is low cut. 

2. Next Step – Go Vintage, Pick A Slip

Grandmas knew how to do it. After getting on their bras and girdles, they wore a soft silky slip to smooth down all the seams and to make sure that their uppermost dress fell nicely down the body.

This step is crucial if your loose boho wedding dress tends to be see through in light or shows underwear seams easily. 

The slip isn’t meant to be shaping, instead choose something that you can just step into. Bias cut or knit fabrics work really well. The surface should be smooth and slippery to avoid your wedding dress climbing up and bunching or snagging on a bra for example. 

 The absolute plus side is that you can use your slip as a sexy and comfortable nightwear and reuse it underneath other dresses if needed. The slip in the picture is by BHLDN (although currently unavailable, check the site for similar pieces.)

3. About The Color 

Your best bet is to pick a skin colored underwear, but soft pink ones or cream can work also if you’re light skinned. 

For dark skinned brides you can try on deeper colors that match your skin tone like vine reds and blum violet if you want to pick something else than dark nude. 

If you use a slip it should be white like your dress or matched to your skin. There’s reasons why white underneath white rarely works, but the slip can act like extra layer to your white gown. 

Read more about picking the right underwear to use underneath white clothes here.

4. Going Without

There’s also a possibility to go basically commando, if your gown doesn’t seem to work with anything and you feel comfortable enough to do so.

Body skimming thin satin gowns with super open back and thin straps are often the kind of dresses people dream of someday wearing. With those kind of gowns your only possibility can be covering your niples with silicone pads and wearing a seamless microfibre thong.

You might want to get your pubes (yeah, I’m going to go there, I’m a professional who’s here to help so…) trimmed in some way to smooth everything down because I swear those wiry hairs sometimes seem to have a life of their own.

+ tip 

Use fashion tape to secure the dress to avoid ‘oops’ situations. To get the best possible result swipe your skin with alcohol swab to clean up the oils and grease before applying the tape. 

5. All Ins

I mentioned a bodysuit earlier and it’s a really good option if you feel like you need whole body shaping and need to avoid seams. With a bodysuit you basically have everything in the same package: bra, tummy control, butt and thigh shaping. The best thing is that there will be no visible panty seams and the dress will just beautifully skim downwards on your torso. 

There’s good options out there which have super open back and even front for those plunging necklines or peekaboo details. Some of them have even self adhesive cups so you can wear them without straps with strapless gowns like the one in the picture by Net-A-Porter.

I would advise reading reviews before ordering to find out what would be the best option for your body type and dress. For curvy brides with more front action these kind of bodysuits would most likely be better option than basic strapless bra as they can offer more support and hold.

P.S Did you notice our free The Wedding Day Outfit -planner? It has checklists, tips and budget sheets that make sure you won’t forget any appointment or aspect of your wedding outfit. It goes over everything from hair, make-up, underwear and even honeymoon packing. Go and get it! <3

Love,

      Iida