Sizing/alterations

Knottie08134669

I was wondering if you ladies had an idea of how many sizes down a dress can be altered? I have my eye on a maggie sottero gown but I was thinking about buying it used, since I would be saving about a thousand dollars and right now I'm a size 8 but I just had a baby 2 months ago and I know by the time we get married in September I will be smaller and I am unsure what size I should get? If I am normally a 4 could an 8 be altered down to that size? 

amelisha

Conventional wisdom is generally two full sizes, but each dress is different. Altering a dress that much might end up so expensive to really eat into what you've saved, also.

WhatawagSBNy

Knottie08134669 said:

I was wondering if you ladies had an idea of how many sizes down a dress can be altered? I have my eye on a maggie sottero gown but I was thinking about buying it used, since I would be saving about a thousand dollars and right now I'm a size 8 but I just had a baby 2 months ago and I know by the time we get married in September I will be smaller and I am unsure what size I should get? If I am normally a 4 could an 8 be altered down to that size? 

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If you give a link to MS website for your dress, it would help. Some styles are easy to alter down and some are tough and expensive. Has to do with seams, and whether or not beading has to be removed and redeem, or neckline recut. Also, how tall are you, and figure type - tall and slender, tiny petite, hourglass, busty with tiny hips.

Edit: Beading removed and redeemed sp above. Once a dress is smaller you need to move around all the beads if any to a new pattern.

Knottie08134669

It is the Divina dress, the only beading on it is the belt. I am tall and slender 5'7'' 

http://www.maggiesottero.com/dress.aspx?style=V7153BR

WhatawagSBNy

This dress looks like it has a straight seam down each side, then center back. What we cannot see but you would know if you tried one in a salon, is the corset. If the corset were really loosely laced, there is up to 2 inches it can be tightened by lacing snug. In which case you would only be altering down one size.

If not, the alterations person unstitches corset, cuts a straight strip of fabric out of either side. Unless you have a tiny bosom, the top and neckline would not be touched. The skirt would not be touched. Just the 3 seams and touching.

Easey Peasey. Alteration up to 2 sizes. More you would likely need to pull in front of bust. Still easy, just time consuming. If you save at least 400 from the original price, then even with alterations you are getting a deal. Do you have up to 300 to alter it? That would likely be the cost in this part of New England, less in Midwest or rural location where seamstresses are more reasonable.

Misspelled - that is just three seams and rouching. (rouching is the soft gathers)