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Making the Perfect Dress for YOU

When you buy a custom made Irish dancing dress, the world really is you oyster. Not only have you a choice of an almost unlimited range of fabrics, colour and decoration, but you can have the dress made with a cut and shape that perfectly suits the individual that you are.

There are few perfect people in the world, we all have good aspects we want to emphasise and less than perfect ones we would prefer to draw attention away from. Careful decisions when your dress is being designed can acheive both of these things. 

Here are some useful tips for choosing the right design for your dress and your figure.

Your Dress and Your Shape

Tall Figure

  • Two toned dresses
  • Fabric with bright bold patterns

Short and Slim Figure

  • Designs that take attention away from waist lines make you look taller
  • Soft colours and one colour dresses
  • Small printed patterns


Tall and Plump

  • Simple styles and designs are more slimming
  • Interesting collar and neck line
  • Avoid shiny fabrics

Short and Plump

  • Again simple styles work best
  • V designed neck lines
  • All over patterned 

Large Bust

  • V designed neck line single colour dress
  • Design with dark top and light skirt can also work well
  • Hip line design 
  • Avoid high neck line

Large Hips

  • Draw the eye with an interesting neck line detail 
  • Dresses designed with a bright top and dark coloured skirt slim the hips
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