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When deciding on having a custom made wedding dress by a professional, high qualified wedding dress maker or bridal designer, you need need to pick one who you can trust. But how to choose if you have no idea where to start? Here are some tips for you to make this decision easier.

There is always important to know, what exactly are you looking for! So open you mind and ask the question: who is a dressmaker? (see what Wikipedia published about it)

“The Oxford English Dictionary first recorded ‘dressmaker’ in 1803. Throughout the nineteenth century and until the rise of ready-to-wear, most women who did not make their own clothes at home employed a dressmaker, who copied or adapted the latest clothing ideas from Paris, London or other fashion centers, based on printed illustrations called fashion plates.

A dressmaker is often professionally trained. Many learn in an apprentice role, under the tutelage of an established dressmaker, while some learn in formal school settings. Still others learn through years of trial and error. Dressmaking methods involve measurements, a trial garment, called a “muslin” or “toile”, and several fittings.

Custom dressmakers also create clothing for clients with unique needs, such as performers, artists, disabled or wheelchair-users, wearers of prosthetic devices, vintage or fashion-forward aficionados, and historical re-enactors. They can also recreate, redesign, and reinvent existing garments (such as updating a great-grandmother’s gown for modern day use). Some have very specific specialties, such as embroidery, reweaving, and restoring garments. Some are designers who can create a garment entirely “from scratch”, and some require a pattern or an existing garment to use as a guide”

So now you know what you are looking for! Great! Let’s start the real search.

1. Ask around your close friends if they know a professional dressmaker. Maybe one of the girls you know had her dress custom made too, but you never talked about it before. Feel free to ask your Facebook friend, as they might know someone who has gone through this search already. Note that a regular dress maker is not equivalent to a wedding dress maker. Making a wedding dress is at a much higher professional level and requires the highest skill in the dress making factory.

2. Visit the website of the recommended wedding dress maker or go online and type in wedding dress makers or something similar into Google and browse the sites. Try to look for local dressmakers, as you probably do not want to travel Far Far Away. Think on that you will need to visit the dressmaker a couple of time for fittings and you probably do not want to spend more on fuel than the dress will cost.

3. Browse the gallery, portfolio, testimonials and feedback, real brides pictures or ask for reference pictures via email showing previous works. Once you are happy what you see, put the contact details on your list and go back for another internet search. Make a shortlist of 2 or 3 dressmakers and contact them. You might want to know the price range of the previously finished dresses. Ask if the price includes the used fabric or just the labour. Check if they are in your price range. Be prepared, custom made designer dresses can cost $1000-4000 and beyond. One of the most expensive dress was sold in Sydney for more than $24000, but dresses for millionaire brides can cost $100.000.

4. Go to see the real dresses. Even if they do not have your dream dress hanging on the rack, which is probably the case, you need to see their previously finished work.

What to look for?

Look for precise workmanship inside or outside. Check the fabric and lace quality, see if the beads are sewed on one-by-one or if they are loose. Look inside the bodice of the dress. Does it have boning? In a case of a fitted bodice, strapless dress it is important how many boning are in the bodice (11-14 boning are essential for a good fit) and if the design requires, are they invisible? Does the bodice have enough interlining? It is important as while you are moving you dress should fit you as a glove and move with you. Nobody wants to turn back while posing for the photographer while your dress is still facing forward!!! Boning and interlinings are making the bodice firm and are specially important for the corset style dresses, which can’t shape your waist and belly lines if they are totally soft. Unless you don’t care showing your unshaped curves. Other thing to look for: Are the seams visible? A good quality wedding dress is made as professional inside as outside. (Theoretically you should be able to wear the dress inside out, but trust me, you would look funny)

Try on some sample dresses if you can. First, choose different silhouettes and different dresses made of different fabrics. You may be interested in different colors as well. Bear in mind, the dress looks different on the hanger than on a real person and you never know if that is the one if you do not try it on. Ask the dressmaker or the designer if she/he would recommend the dress with a petticoat. Do not be afraid of the tulle underskirt, as it will give your skirt more fullness and elegance. There are more than 10 different petticoat styles to choose from. After having few dresses with and without the matching petticoat tried on, and if your imagination is improved, you will be able to judge a dress later on by just looking at it hanging on the rack.

If you are happy with the quality of the dresses, and the service you received by the wedding dress maker, you are ready for the next step!

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Source by Zsuzsanna Kovach