Tales from a Bridesmaid, Part III

Wedding #2 has been over for 4 days... that must mean it's time to start thinking ahead to the next one... right? Right.
Picked up bridesmaid dress #3 today from David's Bridal. The good news: I should have no problems with fitting into this dress in June. The bad news: I kinda hate David's Bridal's dress designers a whole heck of a lot. They create these dresses that I swear have to be differently sized on the top than they are on the bottom.
See, we've got a similar problem with this dress as the last one and how the top will fit but the bottom won't or the bottom will fit and the top won't. I'm not complaining- because this one I could afford to go up in size to get the bottom to fit without fear of ripping or it falling off (thank you thick straps). But it's got to say something when the woman doing alterations made the comment, "Well, you couldn't go down a size and still fit... but you may want to think about taking in the shoulders and the sides." And the price for these alterations? More than the cost of the dress. I do not kid... they'd have to rebuild the body of the dress to fit my torso better. Again- this dress wouldn't fit so well if I went down a size. And as much as it pains me to say, this dress is also 2 sizes bigger than the dress I wore Saturday and last May. Can anyone explain this fact to me? Nicoletta offered to cut the size tag out of the dress for me so that I will stop thinking about that.
So now, my mom is going to be doing the hem and the shoulders herself, and I'll just get a loose dress instead of fitted. I'll be more comfortable anyways! Woohoo for that fact!!!