wedding dresses custom made from china? Anybody bought one??/

[ppie]

has anyone , or knows anybody who has bought one of these dresses direct from china/ japan ect. Im getting married in Oct and dont want to spend a fortune. They all look gorgeous, like the £500+ ones in the shops but for only @£100. I know the sizing wont be perfect and the feedback all seems to be good. Jusdt wondering if i should chance It!!! Thanks

can you show us a link?

just trying to figure out how to do this!!

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130207740852&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=003

Thinks this works!! Too good to be true???

I love this one

wouldn't that be a bit fragile

The feedback is pretty good. I used to work with Bridal dresses etc and a lot of our dresses used to come from China. They really can knock them out for a fraction of the price they would cost to produce in the UK. Just allow plenty of ordering time to avoid panic. The total price (inc P+P) is very good.

Both my younger sister and my sister in law have bought dresses from china and they were boh happy with them. I only see my sister in laws dress close up as my sis got married abroad and in my opinion it looked nice and fitted well. They both had to get the hem taken up though, I think they leave the hem unfinshed for people to alter to their height.

hi mspontipine, thats good to know. think i might chance it then. ill order one now, plenty of time to spare and if its not good its an excuse to get another !!

ppie I have a 'real' designer dress that I need to sell, I got married last year, its really gorgeous.

Im selling in really cheap too as I haven't the room for it.

If you would like a photo email me

enchantedmama @hotmail.com

unfortunately im a curvy size 18 so need a 20-22 wedding dress size and all the ones ive seen or been shown are bloody horrid this is why i was looking at these ones.

ppie, I had a quick look at the feedback for this seller. Overwhelming feedback is positive, but there are a few neutral and negative feedbacks with a significant amount of mutually withdrawn feedback, to me is a warning sign.

So I feel you must be prepared to take a little risk and be prepared to incur the expense of alterning to your size (because a lot of feedback said the size was not right) and give yourself lots of time (postage from China takes a while plus time to sort out any issues). Other risks reflected in the feedback include the dress not being anything like in the picture, the material is poor and the seller has poor English so may have difficulty sorting out problems with her.

Ah sorry, mines a 14.

Hope you find one you like

I live in Shanghai and from experience I can tell you that the quality of the tailoring is pretty hit-and-miss, but for 20 quid you could take a punt. I would guess at that price that the fabric would be a fairly nasty polyester.

Sounds like she might be gouging on the postage too - there's no way she's making any money knocking them out at 6.99 and a couple of the feedbacks refer to high postage charges.

I have a superb dressmaker - if you would like I could ring her for a quote for you. She won't be in the sub-20 quid range, but with the strong pound you might get a good deal (the yuan is pegged to the USD and thus very weak at the moment). I've been meaning to go and get my favourite jeans copied anyway, so I'll dig out her number.

I am so glad I've seen your thread, I'm the same size as you and I bought a brand new beautiful silk dress from China on ebay when I got married 3 years ago. It was fantastic, cost me £170 plus it cost me £80 to have it altered professionally (I bought 2 sizes up to make sure there was extra room). I also took the zip out and put silver eyeholes in it (very easily, i did it myself) so that I then had beautiful silk ribbon up the back.

It was very simple, masses of very good thick silk, beautifully lined, properly weighted. Ornately detailed at the bottom of the train (lots of pearls and sequins) and on the full length sleeves but elsewhere no detail.

I'll just pop off to ebay to see if I can link to it, not seen it on there since i bought it.

cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Rosetta-Nicolini-Wedding-Dress-Alteration-Package_W0QQitemZ120237054709QQi hZ002QQcategoryZ46512QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Did you see this ?? Huge bargain and your size.

Not exactly the same but my niece ordered a prom dress from China through ebay - really cheap but the p&p was expensive. - Never came

Hmmm - decisions decisions!! Do let us know what you decide. That's where the majority of our wedding dresses were made anyway. But I'd hate for you to be let down - esp as it's your big day. Ebay's always a bit of a gamble anyway. Can you afford to risk £100?

I bought one but the skirt part looked like crepe paper and so I never wore it. Best to get one made of satin

www.plussizebridal.co.uk/plus-size-wedding-dresses/plus-size-wedding-gown-gallery-01.html

This site looks really nice have you looked on here?

www.voluptuousbrides.net/gallery/album23

ooohhhh.....i like these as well.
Sorry i'm getting carried away!

cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lily-Ivory-Wedding-Dress-Size-16-18-20-22-24-28-32_W0QQitemZ120237034581QQihZ002QQcat egoryZ46512QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Promise this is the last one.

H PPIE-

Just saw your thread and i would like to give you somethibng positive-

I got married back in July 2006- My dress cost me £80 inc p and p via ebay from china- i just sent them my measurements and they sent the dress- it was the dress i fell in love with at bridal fayre but ws way out of my price range and was perfect!!! definately do not regret my decision and would do it again tomorrow- infact a close frind has done the same on my recomendation-

Sorry the lady i used no longer is on ebay otherwise i could tell yuo who it was.

Good luck with getting your dress and congrats on you forthcoming marriage

One of my friends bought a made-in-china dress from ebay for £100 and was very disappointed with the quality. Shoddy workmanship, horrid fabric. It wasn't really wearable as a wedding dress. I would agree that it appears to be hit and miss. Hope you get a good one if you go for it!