You know the style of wedding dress you want but can’t find it anywhere. Or you’ve found a dress that would be perfect if only it had…
Clothworks offers custom dressmaking services for bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses, special occasions, and formal wear.
I want to begin by looking at your ideas. Pictures, photos, and sketches can all help you envision the styles that interest you. We’ll look at swatches to find the perfect fabric for your dress; I can order a variety of beautiful silks, lace, and other fibers to get the right look. After taking your measurements, I mock up the dress in muslin. This ensures a good fit in the final fabric and allows us to play with the style of the dress. Once you see the muslin on yourself, you may decide whether the neckline needs to be lower or higher, straps adjusted, seams moved, and skirt fullness added or taken away. After the muslin looks and feels how we both want, it is taken apart and used as the pattern. Then the dress is put together in the real fabric, and fittings are scheduled throughout the progress of the dress.
You can plan on 1-2 muslin and 2-3 dress fittings for a custom bridal gown. I ask for 6 months’ advance notice to create your dress, but I can also be flexible depending on my current schedule. An estimate is discussed at the first appointment, and the first muslin fitting asks for a 25% deposit.