Odeliska Bridal Fashion Blog

Yes you may have considered buying online from China or over east but buyer beware! You may be savvy enough to have had your measurements taken to correlate the appropriate size but I recently had a lass come to me having bought a size 8 and yet I needed to take out 12cm down the centre back!!! Normally I would distribute that amount, as it is 2 and a half sizes, across a number of different seams. But due to the design, tucking, beading etc, we needed to keep it simple.

The other peril of buying ‘ready to wear’ sizes ‘off the rack’ is being convinced by shop assistants/sales staff that you can simply and easily get the dress taken in if it is too big. I am under the impression that many of these people are not dressmakers and are in no position to actually make that judgment. Even if you can, quite often it is a costly exercise.

If you wish to buy online ask to see images of close ups of beading, ask if they are Swarovski crystals and be aware synthetic fabrics lack to beauty of real silk, if that is what you are paying for.

Good luck on your buying adventures.

This is a quick note to let potential clients know that as my husband and I had a beautiful baby girl on 20 June 2009, named Mia Amelie, I am currently taking on fewer clients and answering emails less regularly.

Caio for now, Jemma.

Dale wore a silk bodice with bias cut skirt attached. Slender in an off-the-shoulder wedding dress, Dale also had mushroom coloured dupion bridesmaids dresses.
Dale was photographed by Deray Simcoe.

I was recently brought to work together with the milliner, Nicola Gredziuk, by an innovative client who had a head piece commissioned for her wedding.

Here are 2 images of the work that Nicola completed for the New Zealander bride, Emma. The clients I’ve had from New Zealand recently are proving to be stylish and a little off-beat indeed - kudos to NZ!

Images of the dress will be added in the next couple of weeks, after the wedding in Jan 2009.