Dorset dressmakers star in My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas
My mum had a wedding dress shop in Bournemouth said Suzanne.One day I was shutting the shop up and a traveller girl came in and she asked me if we could make her a dress.
It really spiralled from there.Since that meeting the Dorset dressmakers have been inundated with orders for wedding party and first Holy Communion dresses for traveller communities in Southampton and Bournemouth.Suzanne said the travellers requests could be incredibly elaborate.In one case we had four dresses to make for the sisters of the groom at a wedding. Each one had a belt under the bust to the hips with crystals with every crystal sown on individually.
We had four dresses to make in four weeks so we were working really hard on that one.syringe filtersThey heaviest dress we have done was a wedding dress took three of us to lift it We had a really hard time getting it out of the door.lawn mowerThe brides get scars on their hips from wearing the dresses but they have a saying the worse the scars the better the dressIt was the childrens dresses created by the pair which drew the attention of programme-makers at Channel and were featured in Channel My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas.
We are asked to make a lot of matching adult and children dresses The First Communion dresses are like mini-wedding dresses said Suzanne.We also make special dresses for children to wear on Christmas Day.fresh garlic They are quite old-fashioned They are quite Victorian-looking.
My mum had a wedding dress shop in Bournemouth said Suzanne.One day I was shutting the shop up and a traveller girl came in and she asked me if we could make her a dress.
It really spiralled from there.Since that meeting the Dorset dressmakers have been inundated with orders for wedding party and first Holy Communion dresses for traveller communities in Southampton and Bournemouth.Suzanne said the travellers requests could be incredibly elaborate.In one case we had four dresses to make for the sisters of the groom at a wedding. Each one had a belt under the bust to the hips with crystals with every crystal sown on individually.
We had four dresses to make in four weeks so we were working really hard on that one.syringe filtersThey heaviest dress we have done was a wedding dress took three of us to lift it We had a really hard time getting it out of the door.lawn mowerThe brides get scars on their hips from wearing the dresses but they have a saying the worse the scars the better the dressIt was the childrens dresses created by the pair which drew the attention of programme-makers at Channel and were featured in Channel My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas.
We are asked to make a lot of matching adult and children dresses The First Communion dresses are like mini-wedding dresses said Suzanne.We also make special dresses for children to wear on Christmas Day.fresh garlic They are quite old-fashioned They are quite Victorian-looking.