Okay, ladies...how are you keeping your dress from getting ruined during the second line? I am wearing a mermaid style dress with a train and I am meeting with my seamstress on Saturday to do the bustle. However, we are both northerners so I don’t think we fully know what to anticipate. Any recommendations? Here is my dress. I am rather short, so I am more concerned about the sides of the dress than the back. We are intentionally keeping it quite long on the sides for full drama effect! 