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Custom made dress

  • 03-07-2018 1:52am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    Just wondering if anyone has gone the custom route and any advice for keeping costs low? I have a good idea what I want but can't afford to pay an arm and a leg for it!


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  • #2
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    There are a few quite reputable tailors in China that specialize on Custom made dresses for small money.
    I don't know if I can name them here but I'll send you a PM.


  • #3
    aquinn
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has gone the custom route and any advice for keeping costs low? I have a good idea what I want but can't afford to pay an arm and a leg for it!

    For your own sake have you tried on the style you want to ensure it suits you?

    What I got and what I thought I was getting was very different.

    My SIL ordered off Etsy but the shop and seller vanished in the run-up to the Wedding and wasn't answering emails. The dress then arrived all ok but a lot of stress thinking they had gone bust so be careful.


  • #4
    Mollyb60
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    I went to a dressmaker in Belfast for my dress. Told her my budget and she worked with me to create a totally unique dress that I was happy with. I was very pleased with the process.


  • #5
    love_love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭love_love


    What budget are we talking? I love this idea but would have thought it would be far more expensive than something from a shop?


  • #6
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Well the main reason I went to a dressmaker is because my budget was so tight. She worked with me but it was about as low as she could go. My budget was £700.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    Mollyb60 wrote: »
    Well the main reason I went to a dressmaker is because my budget was so tight. She worked with me but it was about as low as she could go. My budget was £700.

    My budget is similar! I just know what I want and I know I won't find what I want off the shelf! Would you mind PMing me the dressmaker you went with?


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Mollyb60 wrote: »
    I went to a dressmaker in Belfast for my dress. Told her my budget and she worked with me to create a totally unique dress that I was happy with. I was very pleased with the process.

    Could you PM me the dressmaker please?


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    Wanted to update on this! Thanks to everyone who PMed me. A local friend recommended a dress maker who had done his wife's dress. Myself and my mother went along. She was brilliant, she looked up the designer dress that had caught my attention. Then I tried on a few dresses till we found the style I liked. It cost 1300. Just to encourage more to go with a dressmaker! I had assumed it would run into 3000 or more to get a dress made!


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