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Irish Dress FAQs – Lewis Irish Dresses

Q: How much will my dress cost?

A: The cost of the dress depends upon size, skirt style, amount of embroidery and fabric choices. Dresses start at $1000 for the smaller dresses and you will pay no higher than $2000 CAD (which would be for the largest and/or the most elaborate dresses in the Grand Prix range).

If you provide a chest/waist/hip and dress length measurement we can provide a price range.

Q: How much is the deposit?

A: A deposit of $500 CAD (Canadian dollars) is required for solo costumes, $300 CAD for waistcoats, and $250 CAD for school costumes. Please note that the deposit is non-refundable.

By placing your non-refundable deposit you are agreeing to all of the information outlined on this page.

Please also note that you will not be put in the queue until the deposit has been received.

Q: What currency do you accept?

All payments are made in Canadian dollars. You can use the XE Currency converter to convert the amount owing if needed. The amount quoted is the amount to be typed in to the payment box and your credit card company will make the appropriate currency conversion.

Q: What are the payment methods?

A: The preferred method of payment is doing a money transfer through your bank. Our online order form offers payment through PayPal; you may pay either with your PayPal account or use your credit card on Checkout. A surcharge of 2.9% will be applied to the total amount owing on the final invoice if this method is used.

Q: Are any crystals included in the cost?

A: Crystals cost extra. You can have us do them or you can do them yourself. We can provide a quote or work within your crystal budget.

Q: What is included with my dress?

A: A shawl, headband (unstoned), and a number clip holder, as well as any extra fabric scraps.

Q: How much is shipping and how long will it take to get my costume?

A: Shipping is $60 to the US, $50 in Canada and for Australia/UK prices will be quoted once the address is known.

Costumes are shipped Expedited via Canada Post and in most cases take 2-3 days. A tracking number will be provided once the costume has shipped.

Q: Will I have any input into my costume design?

A: You can have as much or as little input as you like. Please bear in mind that the more artistic licence given to the designer the better your dress will be. If you are close enough to travel to our studio, a personal consultation can be arranged.

Q: How does the design process work?

A: Approximately two weeks prior to starting your dress you will be asked to send your dress “wish list” as well as measurements (more on this below).

You will be asked to provide a general overview of what you’re looking for in your costume including colors/skirt styles/general “feel” of the dress etc. Once we receive your costume specifics you will receive up to 2 original designs. This includes any minor tweaking of the design to better fit your vision. Additional designs will be charged at $100 per design.

Clients are generally the most satisfied when they have a general idea of what they want and let the designer have a lot of artistic freedom. Those that are very narrow in their design parameters will have a very difficult time deciding on their design. We, at Phoenix Designs, have years of experience both designing costumes and knowing what works on stage, especially at majors. If you put your trust in us you will receive a better costume than one that is micro-managed. Please note the the designer is responsible for the final product and design.

Q: How does the measurement process work?

Accurate measurements are the most important step in your entire custom dress experience. Phoenix Designs has simplified this process for you by providing a comprehensive photo array as well as a video so you can see exactly how to take the measurements.

You will then send the numerical values as well as photos of your dancer’s measurements. Make sure that the number is clearly visible on the tape measure. It’s also really important that you send your dancer’s measurements as soon as possible because any delay will slow down the design process and could delay your delivery date.

Measurements are collected from you about 2 weeks before the dress is started. We offer detailed guidance in a video and in photographs and we provide a form for submitting your dancer’s measurements. See the Measurements page for full details.

Q: What about fit?

A: With respect to fittings, because the dress is custom made I do endeavor to the best of my ability to deliver a dress that fits. When making a dress long distance, sometimes fit issues occur. If you are able, I prefer to meet for fittings. Once the dress is shipped, minor alterations such as bodice let out would be your own responsibility. I do leave 1-2″ of letdown room. Return shipping is the responsibility of the customer, however, I pay to reship the dress back to you once the alteration is completed. Please note that the dress you are ordering is a custom made costume, made to your dancer’s specific measurements and color choices, and as such it is not returnable unless very specific criteria and arrangements are made. Costumes are made following the CLRG Costume Rules. Please note the the designer is responsible for the final product and design.

Q: How long will it take to get my dress once the design is agreed upon?

A: From the time the costume is put on the embroidery machine to completion is 1 week. In 15 years of being in business Phoenix Designs has never missed a deadline.

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Traditional Irish dance dress ch1

How we sew school iri-tradition. ch1.

I'll tell you straight away, my mother and I have no sewing education, all we have is a few years of sewing various role-playing outfits. So - we sew by trial and error, orienting along the way.
So, after the Eastern European fashion, the need for school dresses crept up on us. She crept up and began to inevitably pursue, because Ksenya switched to primer and dancing in a "childish" form is already undignified. Before that, Sasha partially came out of the beginners, but he is a boy, it’s easier for him.
We decided to sew this dress (thanks to Marina Sidorovich for the drawing and consultations)

There were no problems with the choice of color, our preferences were formed even in the adult "childish" form, when we went to the first fashion - green with red, close to the usual children's fashion form , we have such skirts for beginner adults, a green skirt with a red piping along the hem.
The colors were chosen, a sketch was roughly developed - a green dress with red wedges, along the sleeves and hem, except for the central wedge, curls. After much torment, they finally chose the fabric, settled on velvet - it looks good, it does not deteriorate from external influences like satin. There was a variant with fine wool, but it is simply impossible to find the wool of the desired green color, and you have to think about the next generations too =).
There were problems with finding fabric, because, as it turned out, we generally had problems with green fabrics. I had to go to Minsk in search, just the class was very successful. Cotton-based velvet is hard to find, and even more so green. We found only stretch, a little lighter than we would like and only in one place, but it was still impossible to pull with the search for fabric - the deadlines were running out, and after all, it was still tailoring .. Therefore, my sick fantasy gave birth to a stretch-velvet variant, glued with doubler on a thin calico base so as not to overcarry, the stretch stretches in general in all directions. In terms of fabric consumption, they were guided by a public opinion poll of dancers who sewed themselves. True, all the same, only two pieces were available, two and three meters with a width of one and a half meters. Therefore, we decided to sew two dresses at the same time and together (and not each one for himself, as they were going to).
The pattern was made on the basis of the basic model from the book "Encyclopedia of a Young Family", 1987 (p. 525). (In general, we did a lot of this pattern, and an empire dress, and a crinoline, and everyday clothes). Good book

This is how the pattern looks like up to the waist

Since we were not sure if there was enough money for all ideas, we first made all the details on paper (except for the raincoat. I only remembered about it later). Here is the layout for one dress for the base color (valances in a different color), ten parts in total - bodice, two parts of the back (because there is a zipper on the back), two sleeves, a front center wedge, two side front wedges and two back wedges (it turned out that the rear wedges were wrong, but in fact they are larger than the front central one).

later, however, it turned out that stretch velvet needs to be cut in a straight line and only in one direction, so the layout has changed a bit. But not critical, because the layout for two fit on a piece of 3x1.5 m (excluding the raincoat) + a little from a piece of 2x1. 5.
The bodice, the back and all the wedges were glued with a thin dublerin on a calico base. As a result, the fabric has not lost its flexibility, but has ceased to stretch in all directions. I procreated at the maximum temperature of the iron from the side of the dublerin, if you do not grab the edges of the velvet, then it's normal. Therefore, it is best to glue all the details first, and then just cut them out, because. when cutting, velvet dust is formed, which instantly melts and contaminates the soleplate of the iron.
After sewing up such a "sandwich", the extracts turned out to be quite plump, but they look normal on the body. As long as everything is on point.
Let's see the front wedge. Choosing a pattern for the front wedge was almost the most difficult. As a result, we settled on the version that I drew a year ago, a simple, unpretentious pattern with a cord. We have a lot of decorativeness on the sleeves and hem, so we decided not to overload the front with a complex pattern. Because the pattern is plaited with a cord, then two important operations are necessary - making a template and tattooing the pattern.
Making templates.
First, draw a sketch of the drawing. We have it symmetrical, so there is no need to draw all the details.

The procedure for creating templates: draw a sketch - redraw it on tracing paper - glue tracing paper on cardboard - cut it out.
The resulting patterns are

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beautiful dresses developed no less actively than the dances themselves. Sorry, not in the same direction.

Look at how beautiful costumes used to be made:

Or here is a simpler suit, but also neat, warm and lamp-like, evoking only positive emotions:

this harmonica made of folds, take a closer look at the pattern on the chest:

Of course, there were also simpler children's options for a more modest wallet, altered from some overcoats, but simplicity is not bad:

And then something suddenly went wrong. Either all the old designers suddenly returned home to Mars, or something else, but for some reason the situation has changed dramatically for the worse. And every year the locomotive of design picked up speed, rushing down the slope of the mountain of good taste.

At the beginning there were some indistinct crafts made from cheap materials, some kind of incomprehensible kaleidoscope of colors:

Then the technology stepped even further, but the locomotive could no longer have a stopcock:

It was all a long time ago, and there was a lull for some time. When I started dancing, most of the dresses looked like the last two photos above. And then the United States and Ireland discovered the Chinese market for fabrics and rhinestones, and a few more tons of coal were thrown into the infernal furnace, which is still burning, it seems that a chain reaction has already begun.

There is a Vkontakte group of Irimod, where Aldoshina, in her free time from stealing my domains, collects the most hellish star, which only the dress tailoring industry produces. Well, at least that's what I tell myself. Sometimes reposts from there slip through my feed, I wipe away bloody tears and think, for example: “What kind of dress is this to emphasize pumped up chest and shoulders?”

Or, a pimp's dream:

And here is a video where dancers dance well, but we don't care about dancing today, we are interested in fashion. We look at a boy with a pink belly and a pink backpack behind his back, dancing in the middle.

Sometimes it seems to me that they order: "Make me a suit!" According to the old tradition of all fashion sellers, it is not customary to return money for low-quality goods. So they dance, pretending that this is a great art.

How much Dontsova and Malysheva need to smoke to make it seem acceptable:

Why traumatize the psyche of children like that?

They didn’t teach these at school why a zebra has such a coloring:

Just a scribe:

Kill me:

What is the check in the center and on the sleeves? Louis Wooton bag cut open? Why can't you stop when everything is already good?

WTF?!

Well, discussing paraphernalia is generally a thankless task. The students must be delighted. They will grow up and become designers.

Kolkhoz, of course, from everywhere or a photo session "How to surprise the public even more?". I am sure that the super-famous fashion designer Gavin is just incredibly thick trolling the public. I can't let anyone earn money by seriously releasing such a bloody hell (although the white dress on the left is still okay):

Competition "Which is worse?"

Nda... :-\

Kura (buee):

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Maybe they didn't have such markers in childhood?

Men's suits are a different story. But in the same scenario. If your costume doesn't look like you run a small brothel in Chicago or like you just came from a gay parade in Amsterdam, then you're a sucker.

All photos are stolen from the above group, so you've probably seen them all. Every second dress can be safely thrown away from there. Luckily, there are really decent options out there, but there are so few of them that they get lost among clone dresses from Elevation or freak dresses from most other designers.

In Russia they make a very worthy design, although they do not always sew very high quality (dresses often do not sit well on dancers or behave badly during the dance itself), but the prices of our fashion designers are not boorish yet. In my posts with fashion, I usually try to choose those photos where not only the dancer is good, but also the dress is worthy.

Of course, we also make terrible designs, and such that all of the above will seem like baby talk. I'm not talking about inexpensive independent crafts, we are talking about purposefully sewn by a familiar seamstress according to a unique sketch and promoted everywhere. Unfortunately, for ethical reasons and corny because of the fear of death, I will not show these dresses, but who knows me closely and is aware of it. But maybe someday I will collect enough material and still show it to you.

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Irish Dress FAQs – Lewis Irish Dresses

Q: How much will my dress cost?

Q: How much is the deposit?

Q: What currency do you accept?

Q: What are the payment methods?

Q: Are any crystals included in the cost?

Q: What is included with my dress?

Q: How much is shipping and how long will it take to get my costume?

Q: Will I have any input into my costume design?

Q: How does the design process work?

Q: How does the measurement process work?