The good, the bad and the ugly of wedding dress quality

[@scottiehall8695]

My daughter wanted a custom dress, which we got a professional wedding dress seamstress to make. It was coming along beautifully, until the woman's husband had a stroke. She kept stringing us along, saying she would finish it. 1 week before the wedding with the dress not nearly finished, we gave up. Had to go to every bridal dress store in Texas, couldn't find anything resembling the original idea. Finally went to a resale store and lo and behold, the PERFECT dress was there. Never worn Badgley Mischka ball gown. Retail tags attached and it needed only slight alterations. Found an incredible alterationist who could do it in 3 days. Wedding saved! Moral of the story, if you hire one person to make you a dress, have a back up plan for unforeseen circumstances.

[@tcconnection]

Very good advice.

[@marieprestegard2495]

What if the person I hire is myself? My back up plan is if I can't make it in time I will just wear a randome pretty dress.

[@tonnyrodrigueznunez]

did you pay something in advance?

[@arit8009]

can you imagine spending thousands of dollars for unfinished seams in polyester? ffs.

[@ameliagfawkes512]

These brides must spend their wedding days getting electric shocks and either sticky in summer or freezing in winter.

[@bohemiansusan2897]

I've done alterations on bridal dresses and bridesmaids dresses. I've yet to find one that didn't make me cringe. Quality gets worse each year while cost skyrockets. Few ever want to pay me for a custom dress. Most custom wedding dresses I've done are Hanboks.

[@elysium1173]

I used to work at a wedding dress store around the time when I just started getting into sewing and honestly I felt really embarrassed by the quality of our garments and the lack of options for plus-size brides. Definitely learned a lot there about the reality of the fashion world we're living in today.

[@elle3076]

Thank you for this great video - no music, just facts. Like those old documentaries. Perfect

[@tcconnection]

Sample dresses have been worn many times by shoppers and crushed by other fabrics. So seeing rips, zipper/button issues, discoloration from body oils and dirt, and pilling is normal. Unfortunately. That said, these are great tips for wedding dress shopping. Thank you so much for posting.

[@sofiawannemark6858]

W the actual F? I watch a lot of SYTTD and the material/fibre content is never mentioned. I just always assumed that a dress that costs thousands of dollars would be silk. Making my own dress is looking more and more unavoidable…

[@inspired1114]

Yes I noticed that too on SYTTD! No mention of the material when its such a vital component - first thing I do is check the feel of it and if its a natural fabric. Mind boggles.

[@inspired1114]

Great info thank you! I got a small designer to make the dress I drew out for her. I wouldn't go for silk now as its unethical to me, but it was made of the most beautiful Italian silk satin, the veil also silk tulle, and for so cheap. There was a huge long train in it aswelI, so no skimping on the fabric. I thought this was normal to have natural fibres in wedding dresses until I saw big brand dresses made of tacky plastic, unoriginals, and for 1000's more than what I paid.

[@kathleenstoin671]

Polyester and nylon are actually plastic. It's basically melted plastic extruded into thin fibers and spun and woven. No seams should have to be finished by melting the edges! Even overlocking looks cheap. What happened to using silk and other natural fibers?! They are more expensive, but most of the cost of an average dress is labor.

[@ameliagfawkes512]

As someone who sews and who will spend countless hours sewing tiny stitches by hand where you might not even see them (as well as using a machine), it's shocking to see this. It's just unadulterated profiteering. They probably run those dresses up in sweat shops for next to nothing, with no quality control to brag about. I think the whole wedding dress market is out of control.

[@vivienkoles1880]

If I ever get married I'll go to a local designer for sure. These rags are horrible. Why is everything made of bloody polyester?

[@LoyalTideFan]

Try finding anything in a plus size that isn't ickly quality fake fabric and pretty much just stapled together. AND ugly as an outhouse basement.

[@NYer9853]

Thank you for your honesty. After being a fan of Say Yes to the Dress, this was truly eye opening.

[@aleisterlilywhite1109]

I got a David’s Bridal dress for an emergency wedding and yes the quality is god awful and so scratchy. I’m planning a big wedding for next fall and already ordered a Kim Kassas dress with immaculate bead work and raw silk. I can’t wait to wear that one 💕

[@LoyalTideFan]

Bought my daughter's wedding dress at David's Bridal. It was a beutiful, fairly simple ballgown of off-white satin. Was it the mostly beautifully constructed dress? No, but for an elaborate, heavy gown that would be worn only a handful to times, it was more than adequate. The price was under $1,000. Of course, that was 19 years ago, but it looked like it cost much more. We got what I felt was a fair deal. My own dress, bought in 1974, cost $200 and wasn't made any better. It wasn't anything like what I wanted, but we didn't have a lot of choices back then. Everything was wedding ring neckline, long bishop sleeves and empire style long skirts, whether ou wanted it or not.

[@katerrinah5442]

My SIL had a covid wedding with 5 people total (including her and brother). Her dress was stunning but when I saw it up close I could see at least 10 hours of detail work my average skilled seamstress self could do. It's so sad that people pay so much for dresses that aren't finished properly!

[@violetworld541]

I like this type of video, but the experts' voice is so low compared to your voice. It'd be helpful to have the second person wearing a mic or something because I constantly adjusting my volume back and forth. Anyway, this video is very helpful. Thanks!

[@fivekatz1]

Strapless gowns need a waist stay

[@kristinedoty7876]

Find out which one of you friends mothers' can sew and bargain with them to make a simple dress of good quality fabric. It will look better than anything else you could afford. Fit above all else, makes YOU look good.

[@LoyalTideFan]

It's hard to find good, quality natural fabric.

[@an-enby-panda7840]

sorry, if they're such bad quality why are you selling them for thousands of dollars??

[@VeginMatt]

Those were the original prices from other businesses.

[@lavaunjohns7796]

What about designer one-of-a-kind gowns?

[@System-zu7np]

Hey, youtube decided to dub over this in my native language with TTS making this video basically unwatchable since i cannot turn it off. Apparently autodub is turned on by default just fyi.

[@Chiara_Elena]

Happened to me, too. You can change it in settings.

[@System-zu7np]

@Chiara_Elena i know that the setting is supposed to be there but for some reason it doesn't show for me, maybe a bug idk until then apparently half the channels i like are unwatchable for me.