Across many of the blog posts I have written I have ‘shared with the group’ the unmissable fact that I sport I fine G cup bust. I have adjusted to the fact that if I want to buy a reasonable, well fitting off the peg dress I nip into Hobbs and the angelic pattern cutters seem to have catered for me in their size 16.
Wedding dresses would be a different story – if I was advising myself I would suggest I didn’t visit a sample sale. Wedding dresses. even if they are a 16, are not cut for a very large cup size. Similarly they are not usually great on the over 5′ 10″ or in the under 5′ 2″.
A sample sale is really best suited to those brides that are sample size – it can be an 8 or a 16 – but it is worth not disappointing yourself with a slightly deflating sale experience.
Reasonable and practical alterations would be to take a dress down by 1 to 2 sizes, shortening the length, customising and certainly adjusting to a different size top and bottom – all entirely manageable.
Letting out – crikey no! Letting the hem down – ditto! These are inadvisable and I would not recommend buying a sample dress with these in mind.
The one exception to this would be adding a larger panel under the lacing of a corset back dress – this could certainly buy you an inch or two.
Hems, side seams, lifting shoulders, adding bust cups, lingerie carriers, bustling trains – all perfectly practical tasks that our seamstresses perform daily – can be offered for samples.
Samples sales can be a fabulous steal. Miss Bush staff are trained to continue to advise with integrity and to not let the spectre of red pen bargains overwhelm common sense.
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