I guess I like to let the dresses speak for themselves. There is something about a dress that just happens that makes it feel somehow meant to be...meant for a certain buyer. I like to imagine someone is looking for just this dress and will recognize it when they see it. Maybe even that the dress is drawing them to find it. Crazy ? Yes....probably. On the other hand, with so much generic going on in gowns, there is something special about a one of a kind dress. When I first started selling wedding dresses I would create stories about the dress, based on the name of the dress. Sometimes it was really wonderful and surprising.
Here is the description I wrote for one of my first few one of a kind gowns. It still seems to ring somehow:
Cordelia liked lemon meringue pies and fried clams in the same dinner with lots of sweet tea and warm biscuits with honey. She loved gardens in summer and had prize roses she loved like children. In her closet she kept an array of beautiful hats she was too shy to wear often, but loved trying on. Her name was like her Grandma's and she was as beautiful and interesting as she remembered her Grandma having been. Only she was blessed with a headful of bouncy raven curls and soft green eyes. Her Grandma would love how she had turned out !
Making things is really an expression of the spirit and creating is not a tame art. So when you create, you may be unexpectedly making the very gown someone has been dreaming of....really !
