Sequins, glitter, and tulle, oh my!

Prom season is in fuller than full swing and we’re getting a lot of questions about all things prom alts.

So we thought we’d take a minute to go through some of the biggest questions and give a thorough answer to each of them!

• Do all prom dresses need alterations?

• How long do prom dress alterations take?

• What can a seamstress change about my prom dress?

and more!

In our alterations shop here in Cedar Rapids we are filling our time with prom-related excitement! Our appointment book is filling up, our door chime seems to be constantly ringing, and there are sequins getting *everywhere*. The busy season has arrived!

So as with every season, we’ve got sewing on the mind. *Sew* let us add one more piece of prep to your list of pre-prom to-dos: get your prom dress alterations!

But what all is involved in getting a prom dress altered? If you haven’t had alterations done before, the whole process may be a mystery. And even if you have, there are some differences from having, say, your everyday clothing altered. So that’s what we’re going through in this blog post!

Welcome back to our two-part series on the most common suit alterations and what they mean!

If you missed part 1 all about altering the suit jacket, you can check that out in our last post: The Suit Jacket Edition.

Now although you are probably wearing a suit jacket or sports coat for particularly special occasions, you’re likely wearing and shopping for slacks much more often. And even if you’re wearing dress pants every day for work, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t fit you properly and help you look your absolute best.

So today we’re continuing our list of suit alterations with: the pants!

A suit is one piece of clothing that can totally transform you. There’s a reason they’re often reserved for special occasions, or when you need to make a good first impression (i.e. a job interview).

But for a suit to really help you look your very best, it should fit you properly. That’s where your local tailor comes in.

At a suit fitting with a tailor, they will help you recognize that parts of your suit that aren’t laying or fitting you as nicely as they should, and therefore robbing you of that clean put-together look a suit is meant to provide.

But what are all these alterations the tailor is talking about?

That’s what we’re going to be walking through today. All the different suit alterations and what they mean.

With Spring comes Prom! And with that, the start of a new busy season at our alterations shop in Cedar Rapids. We see prom dresses start to appear as early as late February, but it’s typically mid-March when we see them arriving in throngs. Every color of the rainbow, glitter and sequins, tulle, tulle, and more tulle! The transformation the shop undergoes with the arrival of prom really does mirror the reanimation of Spring outside.

So you’ve got a dress! Or have a friend or daughter with a dress, and you’re wondering what could possibly entail getting prom dress alterations done. This is precisely what we’re aiming to answer in this post.

Of course the prom dress alterations we’ll list and describe here are not all inclusive. If you have an idea of a change you’d like to make to your dress, simply mention it at your fitting, and it’s very likely we can find a way to make it happen.