Making Wedding Dress in China Wedding, Dress, Making, China

khaki

As suggested, I will post my reply with a new topic

From friend's experience:

9/10 have +ve feedback on making dresses for their bridesmaids, but they would not take the risk making their own gown in china, simply because no guarantee on the final product, no fitting wor, there might be thousands of designs which are pretty, but doesn't mean they suit everybody. No turning back after getting the gown and find it looks not as good as you imagine.

Except you're looking for very simple style, otherwise if I were the bride I wouldn't risk it.

Making chinese cheung sam or qua is good though...

chowB

khaki,

我講過好恐怖既story 比你聽, 我親眼見到既, 話說我搞唔掂, 我叉晒腰話一定要今日做起, 留到好夜
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tsumorichisato 發表於 2010-3-29 12:52

OMFGWTF..!@#$%^&*(&$#@!#$(*&_*&^%$#@!!!!!!!!!..........!! Really scary wor!!

Catpiano

Oh ..  I think you are taking about "Made in China" wedding dress ...  then they are ok, I think most of the wedding dress here, are made in China anyway ..

However, buying in China, may be different story, if you will spend a lots of time in China, (for alteration, then should be fine...

Wedding gown ..  need to alter many times ga ...   (from the day u order the dress.. to your big day, could be 6 month .. )



Unlike man, wake up in the morning on wedding day, go to the closet, and pick whatever ..  then iron them and go!

fibbi

In general, the problem of dealing with Chinese merchant...(and I found more and more HK merchant like that as well...) is that... 講就天下無敵, they promise you everything they can to get your business. Whether they can do it or not they don't care, since they already got your $ (deposit) or a chunk of money anyway.

tequila

it does take alot of time to go back and fourth to china and hk if u r making ur dresses there..... also u do need to expect alternations afterwards, and because my fiance's mom does alternations, so there wasn't the problem for his sister to make the dresses in china. and u also must tell them exactly what you want. she had made all her five dresses in china for around $800 CND.. and i believe she had sold her wedding gown here afterwards.

i guess it is better if you have a referral by someone instead... i just got my bridesmaid dresses and my mom's clothing for the day done... but i do need to get the bridesmaid dresses shorter and so im gonna get his mom to do it

布小熊

my friend had her cheung sam made in HK by a Shanghainese tailor. It was expensive (she didn't tell me how much) but it looks very good on her. (hug her curves very nicely)
She was too scared to get hers done in China and she didn't have enough time to go back and fore.

raima

i think it's not worth the time and money to have your wedding gown made in china unless you get to see what is happening in every step and not just with 2 visit (to drop off a picture of what you want and explain; then to pick up the final product). it's very risky.

it's better if you purchase an already made gown if you find one that you like in china. but no guarantee if the fabric was once Mickey's blanket like tsumorichisato's story above.... lolz

as for cheung sam, i think they do a great job in china. lots of fabric to choose from. my mom was very impressed. she got lots of compliments too. don't know if that was luck or not. but those ladies are very pushy in sales.

khaki

Omg were those Mickey inside the fabric or just running around?!? Maybe they are owner's pets, don't panic lol

tsumorichisato

khaki,

我講過好恐怖既story 比你聽, 我親眼見到既, 話說我搞唔掂, 我叉晒腰話一定要今日做起, 留到好夜
當我坐響舖頭外見到揀fabric 個區入面既, 個個人去做衫都先響果度揀料, 我見到裡面有幾隻Mickey....嚇到我死下死下, 所以最後我打死唔要D裙阿

khaki

@tsumorichisato:

Exactly! Taste is the word. Sometimes doesn't mean the tailor didn't do a good job, but many times it's difficult to communicate and tell him/her how you want your dress to be, and your "elegant" may not be = to the tailor's "elegant". I can imagine how bad it can be.

Many aunties they like to make their chinese cheung sam in China because they have more fabric choices, is that true? My sister made one she likes it a lot.