The USER Concept to choosing your dress alteration seamstress

It is more confusing than ever for a bride to find a seamstress or tailor suitable to alter her wedding dress. While we have already posted enormous articles to educate brides and bridal parties on similar topics, we continue to receive an increasing amount of jobs coming from brides who had their wedding dress previously touched and damaged by unqualified seamstresses and tailors. Yes, as a professional bridal expert, we are able to fix most of these damaged dresses. However, it always will cost more to fix somebody’s mistakes than to alter the dress while it is still in good conditions. We believe that, as one of the industry’s leading bridal alteration businesses, we have a moral obligation to ongoingly educate our customers or future customers in this matter regarding their wedding dress alterations.

We are not going to whistle-blow on why there are so many unqualified seamstresses and tailors continuously damaging so many wedding dresses on a daily basis. We, however, can give brides some simple tips to take alongside with them while they’re looking for their bridal alteration seamstress. For this reason, we have come up for brides an easily-remembered concept – “The USER Concept”.

Your chosen bridal alteration seamstress should possess the following attributes and qualities:

1. UNDERSTANDING
   • Understanding of wedding dresses
     • Understanding how different designs affect the fitting of different body shapes
     • Understanding about pattern-making of different types of wedding dresses
     • Understanding on different ways to modify and manipulate patterns to achieve the desired look
   • Understanding and the willingness to understand about what brides need and want
   • Understanding honestly of her own abilities and skills in fitting, pinning and sewing
2.  SKILLS
   • Skills in styling, fitting and pinning relevant to wedding dresses
   • Skills in professional sewing relevant to wedding dresses
   • Skills in effective communications to brides
3.  EXPERIENCE
   • Experience in the bridal and fashion industry
   • Experience in altering varieties of wedding dress types and brands
   • Experience in dealing with brides from different backgrounds and cultures
4.  REVIEWS AND TESTIMONIALS
   • Good reviews and testimonials on consistently delivering high quality bridal alterations
   • Good reviews and testimonials on dealing with delicate and sophisticated wedding dresses
   • Good reviews and testimonials on altering varieties of wedding dress types and brands

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• 9 Useful Tips On Choosing Your Wedding Dress Alteration Seamstress
• Use A Bridal Seamstress
• Due Diligence