Another trunk show question!

I can't speak to any specifics of a trunk show or Haley Paige gowns, but generally, the consultants will be able to work with you. They'll use clips and/or elastic closures to give you a pretty good idea of how you'll look in a dress that is made for your measurements. However, I'd guess that as a street-sized 10, you will be fairly close to fitting in the samples. (If there were a bigger discrepancy, like you were a street-sized 16 or something, it would be more difficult because a plus-sized dress might be somewhat different in the way it is constructed, but I wouldn't expect that to be the case as a size 10). I did a quick Google search and found the following info regarding the measurements associated with HP dresses: https://luxereduxbridal.com/pages/blush-by-hayley-paige-size-chart. I wear a size 10, and they are pretty close to my regular measurements.

Daughter generally wears a size 8. Some size 8 samples were actually too big on her because they tend to get stretched with so many people trying them on. (That may not be true of dresses at a trunk show -- I don't know how many brides have tried them on.) At Casablanca, they actually easily zipped daughter into a size 6 (it was probably very stretched...); daughter joked she might buy that dress so she could say her wedding gown was a size 6!

Bottom line, I'd expect they will be prepared to help brides representing a wide range of sizes try on the trunk show samples. Like I said, you should be fairly close to the "right size" for their samples. Try not to worry and overthink too much!

Depending upon the material it could fit you better than you think, however the bridal shops usually have clips that stretch like a bungee cord. So the areas where the dress fastens/closes they will use those to hold the dress in place for you while you try it on.

Thank you so much for all of this information! This is very helpful, I really appreciate it! After hearing about your daughter's experience and checking out the size chart, I'm not TOOOO far off from being able to fit into a 10. Thanks again!