Help with dress designer, please!

awed81

Can anyone tell me who makes this dress? It has a slight sweetheart neckline with ruching on the front. There is a lace applique on the side. It has a lace trimmed train. Thanks so much for the help! I have been looking for a while... [IMG]http://tinyurl.com/nswo26" width="370" height="493"[/IMG] [img]http://tinyurl.com/lpt8ww" width="380" height="507"[/img]

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I just see blue question marks.

krisdi78

I can't see the pics either  

awed81

ok here goes again.... [IMG]http://tinyurl.com/m8bpkt[/IMG] [IMG]http://tinyurl.com/mpuucs[/IMG] or here are the links just in case. http://tinyurl.com/mpuucs http://tinyurl.com/m8bpkt

mikesboo23

What shop did you try it on at?

awed81

I tried it on at Eva's Bridals of Oak Lawn. It was about $1100.

krisdi78

I also had trouble with Eva's Oak Lawn not telling me the designer of the dress I liked - I eventually found it online because I didn't have a pic, but my suggestion would be to take the pictures you have to another store and see if they can identify it.  I ended up getting my dress from Eva's in Orland Park and was much happier with them - all the Eva's are franchised so they carry a lot of the same things but definitely do not operate the same way - Eva's in Orland was more than happy to tell me the designer, didn't cut out the tags, let me take pics, and even negotiated with me to give me a much better price than Oak Lawn or even that I found online.  I'd recommend trying to take the pic to them and seeing if they know what it is.

Lindze75

I don't know what designer makes that one, but I know that the one to the right of it is a Maggie..I tried it on so I recognize it.  I'm sure you tried this, but if they have a website that says what designers they carry that could help you to know what websites to search.  Good luck!

KappaUCF20

There are a lot of designers out there with dresses that look exactly like that one so it's hard to say for sure.  I've seen a gown that looks like that from Alfred Angelo, but that's just a guess.  I agree that if the bridal shop has a website, it should list what designers they carry (or maybe if you call them and play dumb, they'll tell you over the phone which ones they sell). 

awed81

Thanks gals Yeah, their website lists about 25 different designers they carry, so I have been going through them slowly. I have found a bunch that are similar too, but not *this* one. It has a very unique train. I figure if I go back and am still interested that I will make her tell me before I would ever agree to buy from them.

krisdi78

GL! I asked them specifically several times who made the dress I liked before I said I would buy it and they told me they'd go check in their books and disappeared - twice - never to come back - one time it was supposedly the manager who did this - I left the store and called back to ask to speak with the manager and they said she wasn't in at all that day - even though while I was there they introduced me to someone they said was the manager.  Then the girl told me if the dress didn't have tags it must have been custom made for their store (this was BS - it was a Casablanca dress) - so after that I decided I would never give them my business - I went through every designers site they had listed on their website and finally found the dress - if I were you I'd definitely take the pic and my business elsewhere - if a store carries the dress they will more than likely recognize it from the pic - even if I had to try a dozen stores, I think it would be worth it.Also they tried to use pressure tactics saying that the best price I would receive on the dress would be that day and each time I came in they would raise it - obviously this only ticked me off and made me not want to buy it there.If you do however end up buying it there, I heard that you should not get your alterations done there - several people have posted about bad experiences with that - just a heads up.

KappaUCF20

Then the girl told me if the dress didn't have tags it must have been custom made for their storeI went to several bridal shops that tried to use that same tactic... lol.  One of them flat out lied and said that every dress in their store was custom made by their own private designers, but I found out later that most of them were Maggies, Casablancas, etc.  Needless to say, they didn't get my business.