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Dressing Up In A Wedding Dress By Liz Re-13536 As soon as you get engaged, you’re suddenly expected to understand the world of bridal fashion and the myriad terms and rules it involves. In reality, many brides don’t know what the different gown options are, and what they mean in terms of fit, flexibility in design and price. Here are some things you should know that will make the wedding shopping experience easier.
Made-to-measure If you want something unique, a made-to-measure gown is the way to go. As the name suggests, this type of gown is made from scratch to your specifications. You will have the flexibility to design your own gown, or have a sample made to fit your exact measurements.
You will have a new pattern made for your measurements. This is sometimes the only way to go if your proportions are very different to a standard size - if you are much shorter than average, taller than average, or have really long or short legs for example.
A made-to-measure gown requires anything from four to eight fittings, depending on the dressmaker. You will need at least a measurement fitting; a toile fitting, where a mock-up version of your gown is created from a calico fabric; a first fitting, where you will be fitted into your gown and have the seams and hem pinned; and a final fitting, where you will try on your finished gown to make sure it fits perfectly. Any hand beading or embroidery is usually done just before the final fitting.
A made-to-measure gown is the most expensive option, as it requires the most amount of work.
Made-to-order A made-to-order gown is when you choose a gown from a range of samples and pick the fabric and colour to have it made in your size. Not all designers offer this option, which is less expensive than a made-to-measure gown.
You will often still have a degree of flexibility in the design of the gown, depending on the dressmaker. You can alter the design of the gown as long as it doesn’t change the pattern. As soon as the pattern is altered,
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I love to customise pieces, to make them personal to me. I took off all the old buttons on this coat and added odd vintage ones, mixed with a few taken from other outfits. Now it feels really special.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1abff2f/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/how-do-i-look-louise-trotter-fashion-director-age-39-897327.html&link=How Do I Look?: Louise Trotter, Fashion director, age 39" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/how-do-i-look-louise-trotter-fashion-director-age-39-897327.html&link=How Do I Look?: Louise Trotter, Fashion director, age 39" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/16404128989/f/3803/c/266/s/28049199/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/16404128989/f/3803/c/266/s/28049199/a2.img" border="0"/></a> Miuccia Prada: All about Miu <p>I wanted to take sport in a new direction," says Miuccia Prada of her autumn/winter collection for Miu Miu and, true to her word, she has certainly done just that. Based loosely – very loosely – on the type of block-coloured, streamlined uniform more readily associated with jockeys than anything more obviously fashionable in intention, felt morphs with jewel-coloured duchesse satin, sequins and lace, all moulded rather than fitted to the body – well, this is the hand of Miuccia Prada, after all – to ever more disorienting effect. </p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1abff24/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/miuccia-prada-all-about-miu-897326.html&link=Miuccia Prada: All about Miu" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/miuccia-prada-all-about-miu-897326.html&link=Miuccia Prada: All about Miu" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/16404128985/f/3803/c/266/s/28049188/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/16404128985/f/3803/c/266/s/28049188/a2.img" border="0"/></a> Ozwald Boateng: Cutting edge <p> Ozwald Boateng is the tailor who has dressed ... crikey, where to start? OK, he has dressed David Bowie and Mick Jagger and Daniel Day Lewis and Robbie Williams and Will Smith and Forest Whitaker and Laurence Fishburne and Anthony Hopkins and Spike Lee and Lenny Kravitz and Jamie Foxx but not Jeremy Clarkson, obviously. Anyway, we meet at his shop, which I shouldn't really call a "shop" – it's the "flagship store" – on London's Savile Row; delicious Savile Row which, ladies, all men should be steered towards with, if necessary, a cattle prod and gun to the temple. On Savile Row no man is able to buy: 1) a checked baseball cap to be worn the wrong way round; 2) a hoodie; 3) large, flapping, stinky trainers; 4) those jeans that come halfway down the bum and put the crotch at the knees. </p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1abff11/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ozwald-boateng-cutting-edge-897323.html&link=Ozwald Boateng: Cutting edge" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/ozwald-boateng-cutting-edge-897323.html&link=Ozwald Boateng: Cutting edge" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/16404128981/f/3803/c/266/s/28049169/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/16404128981/f/3803/c/266/s/28049169/a2.img" border="0"/></a> Meet the global scenester: He's hip. He's cool. He's everywhere <p>The bewildered boy clutches his fruit salad and searches for a seat at the back of the bar. He's wearing a vintage flannel shirt and skinny jeans, a pair of pointed brogues and pink plastic-framed sunglasses. His hair is a peroxide crop in the androgynous, Agyness Deyn style. This hipper-than-thou hangout in the Truman Brewery on London's Brick Lane, with its indistinct electronic soundtrack, is a popular spot. Emos, nu-folkies and post-post-punks mingle on Moroccan-style cushions. A guy in a ripped white V-neck T-shirt is stretched out on the leather couch in the corner, his face lit by the pale glow from his MacBook. For an aspiring scenester like the boy in the flannel shirt, standing out from the crowd is going to be a struggle.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1a80bc6/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/meet-the-global-scenester-hes-hip-hes-cool-hes-everywhere-894199.html&link=Meet the global scenester: He's hip. He's cool. He's everywhere" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/meet-the-global-scenester-hes-hip-hes-cool-hes-everywhere-894199.html&link=Meet the global scenester: He's hip. He's cool. 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The Garrick Club, one of the last bastions of establishment formality, is relaxing its rules over members' clothing. </p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1a5abca/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/sartorial-correctness-dress-me-up-dress-me-down-892684.html&link=Sartorial correctness: Dress me up, dress me down" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/sartorial-correctness-dress-me-up-dress-me-down-892684.html&link=Sartorial correctness: Dress me up, dress me down" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/15892605519/f/3803/c/266/s/27634634/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/15892605519/f/3803/c/266/s/27634634/a2.img" border="0"/></a> Armani steps into the ring to design matador's outfit <p>Giorgio Armani is to design the suit of lights for one of Spain's top bullfighters in a corrida [bullfight] to celebrate the heyday of the taurine art.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1a3e15e/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/armani-steps-into-the-ring-to-design-matadors-outfit-891514.html&link=Armani steps into the ring to design matador's outfit" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/armani-steps-into-the-ring-to-design-matadors-outfit-891514.html&link=Armani steps into the ring to design matador's outfit" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/15892543699/f/3803/c/266/s/27517278/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/15892543699/f/3803/c/266/s/27517278/a2.img" border="0"/></a> How do I look?: Ali Gabut Youngblood, Musician, age 25 <p><b>I'm half black, half Philippino. I was born looking pretty unique. </b>No one can ever tell what nationality I am. I play off that. I wear whatever makes me look thinner. It's hard to shop in the UK. I'll see something but it's always one size too small. In the States you get plus-sizes; there are a lot of happy chubby people there. I'm a UK size 16. People think I look great naked! 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the gown becomes a made-to-measure design. Design features you can usually change are beading, fabric, colour, train length, neckline, fullness and straps.
Made-to-order gowns require between two and four fittings. The fittings process should happen as close to the wedding as possible - usually about a month out.
Ready-to-wear For the low-maintenance bride, a ready-to-wear dress, otherwise known as off-the-rack, is probably the best option.
This type of will save you money because you won’t be charged as much for labour or fittings. The only downside is that you can’t alter the design.
If you find the gown of your dreams off-the-rack but it doesn’t fit perfectly, don’t stress. Just take it to a reputable dressmaker to have it altered. Some designers provide an in-house alterations service for their clients. Take your new bridal vocab out for a spin when you go gown shopping. Not only will it impress your friends but it will let the designer know you’ve done your research.
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