Custom-made evening dresses
Throughout our 23-year history, we’ve always customized dresses for each client, complementing and enhancing their look. Over time, more and more satisfied customers began asking us to create a custom dress for them from scratch, taking into account all their wishes, from fabric selection to cut and embellishment. Step by step, we began translating our clients’ wishes into ready-made, unique dresses. Many of our clients meet each other at various events, and no one wants to see a dress that’s exactly like their own, so custom-made evening dresses or alterations to our samples guarantee a unique look.
Let’s start with three myths about custom-made dresses.
- Myth #1. Custom tailoring is expensive. It all depends on your requirements and the specific dress style. Generally speaking, custom tailoring isn’t much more expensive than a good ready-made dress. Keep in mind that a ready-made dress also needs to be tailored to your figure, which adds up to an additional cost that, when added to the price of the dress, equals the cost of tailoring. However, with custom tailoring, you get a completely unique dress that fits you perfectly.
- Myth #2. Sewing takes time. Modern technology, and most importantly, experience, allow us to create a finished dress tailored to the client within three days from the moment the layout and materials are approved.
- Myth #3. Custom tailoring carries the risk of not being satisfied with the finished design. This is a misunderstanding. The key to tailoring is trusting the atelier you’re entrusting to make your dress. A reputable place is more likely to refuse your request than to take on a dubious project. The key is to listen to and trust the person you’ve entrusted to make your dress. In our practice, we sometimes refuse clients a custom dress if we can’t find common ground and we see that they have concerns we can’t resolve.
So, the main thing is to trust the tailor, everything else is secondary.
At the atelier, the most important thing is the experience of a team of professionals, always ready to suggest the best way to realize a client’s vision. Many people ask what’s more difficult: sewing a dress or fitting a ready-made one. Certainly, fitting a dress requires a higher level of skill, as there’s no margin for error; the tailor is working with a finished garment, which would be ruined if an error were made. Sewing is more forgiving, as there’s always a roll of new fabric, and any mistake can be corrected. It’s in fitting dresses that we’ve accumulated our experience and expertise, which we now offer to our clients in custom-made dresses.
So, you’ve decided to have your evening dress made by us. Where do you start?
1. Meeting with a stylist. We take your wishes into account, discuss details and select fabrics. We take individual clothing measurements. We agree on the base price of the finished dress.
2. Approval of materials. We provide you with a choice of fabrics in which to make your dress.
3. First fitting. We invite you to try on a finished dress mockup; it is at this stage that the main adjustments to the future dress model are made. Somewhere it’s denser, somewhere it’s looser, there it’s lower, here it’s higher, and so on. That is, in essence, we give the dress your individual proportions and wishes.
4. Second fitting. Ready-made dress, minor adjustments required. Also, if the model is complex, then additional adjustments are made during the second fitting.
5. Third fitting. The dress is completely finished, try it on, evaluate the result, accept the work.
Typically, the sewing period from the approval of materials to the fully finished dress is from 3 to 14 days. As you can see, the time period is no longer than for a regular dress fitting.
As they say, trust whom you trust. We’ll be happy to bring your perfect custom dress to life.
