How long does it take to make a wedding dress/ period costume?
It really depends if you are asking how long it takes to actually construct a dress/costume, or how long it takes to design, fit and construct a commission. If made non-stop, a basic (undecorated) gown, based on an existing Rossetti design, will take about four to six days of working un-interrupted eight hour days. A more complicated order with foundation petticoats and hoops, decoration or intricate detailing, will take up to two to three weeks. Quantities of beading or hand embroidery lengthen construction times. No design shown on the site has taken more than two weeks to construct, but may have taken months to design. It is something of an urban myth that a wedding gown should take months and months to complete; perhaps this idea has arisen from the tradition of gowns being made by the bride herself, or by a self-taught friend or relative who constructs the dress intermittently, alongside a day job. (Or by shop-made gowns which may take months to order in). I love to totally immers
