Let's face it, no one's the perfect model size, and that means your Prom Dress may require minor alterations so it fits and looks perfect. Here's Prom Frocks tips to altering a prom dress.

EXISTING PROM FROCKS CUSTOMERS
Creation provide a very reasonably priced Prom Dress alteration service for existing Prom Frocks customers. Call 01942 238 643 for details.

FINDING A GOOD SEAMSTRESS
Look on Google, Yell or in Yellow Pages under ‘Tailors’. Please ensure you ask to see a sample of their work before they touch your dress. Prom Frock Prom Dresses are of the highest quality - so don't ruin them by having someone who does not have experience experiment on your prom gown.

You could also look for a local ‘bridal wear’ which may alter Prom dresses. Normally if a seamstress has worked on difficult wedding dresses, a Prom dress will be extremely straightforward for them. Your local Dry Cleaners also usually offer an alteration service

HEMMING
Prom Frocks Prom Dresses fit 5' 9" people. So if you are under 5' 9" plan on having a hem done.

ADDING LENGTH
Although our dresses fit 5' 9" people, taller people may want to consider doing the following:

1. Make the dress a high / low Hem Line. High low hems are in almost as much as floor length dresses. A high/low hem is short in the front (9" or more off the floor), low in the back (as the dress normally fits).

2. Wear flats. All of the models shown in our photo's are between 5'8 and 5'10" tall. They also are wearing heels. So perhaps the dress will fit properly if you wore flats.

TAKING THE DRESS IN OR OUT
We highly suggest ordering bigger and taking in the dress. Whether you take the Prom dress in 1" or 5" it is normally still the same price and it will look the same. However, if you have to let out a dress a few things may occur:

1) the fabric let out may contain pin holes
2) the extra seam allowance our company normally leaves in each dress may have been cut, and there may not be enough material to let it out.

TRAINS
If your dress has a small train, have your seamstress sew a hand-made hook and eye to the back of the prom dress so that the prom dress can be brought up to floor length for dancing. To do this, lift the train to where it should be fastened to become floor length. Sew a small fancy pearl or crystalised button onto the back of the dress to this area (around the calves). Next sew a few loops of thread to where the train needs to be brought up. Loop the threads around the button and viola! A dress made for dancing.

PRICING
Prom Frocks always recommend you get a quote before you leave your Prom dress with a Seamstress. This way no one is surprised. Although pricing varies from seamstress to seamstress, in Wigan, where Prom Frocks UK are located you can find the following prices.

Please Note: most Prom Dress Seamstresses add the items together and calculate from there. Normally in our area we don't see alterations going over £25 for a hem plus taking the dress in and fixing any lost Pearls.

Hem: £10 to £15
Trains being brought up: £5
Taking in Prom Dresses: £10 - £20
Letting out Prom Dresses (if possible): £25
Lost Pearls: (Free of charge with other alterations)