What's your size?!*>
How many of you reading this have ever felt comfortable discussing your dress size with people? Not only that how many have actually no clue what your dress size is because so many high street retailers have completely different sizes? For the sake of being open and honest myself I can be a 14 in F&F, XL in Zara and 16 in Next. If you ask me to buy a bikini set you will find me quivering in a corner having an anxiety attack. In todays shopping world ladies sizing is all over the map. Now try to buy a wedding dress!
I have worked in the bridal industry from 18yrs old, and still to this day one of the most awkward points in a bridal appointment is the discussion on bridal sizing. This doesn’t matter if you are a size 0 or size 32 everyone is conscious in some way or another about the little number in the back of the dress. No matter how many times I use my go to piece of advice:
“who is going to ask you on your wedding day what size your dress is? If they do you have the full authority to kick them out!”
Choosing a wedding dress is a shopping experience like no other. 9 times out of 10 the dress you choose in the store wont be your size. Even if it is there are always some sort of alterations needed to make it the perfect fit. This could just be raising the hem line to allow for your chosen shoes, or it could be a nip in under the armpit so that the bust line fits comfortably. Either way the size dress you order wont end up being that actual size at the end anyway so why are we so concerned with it??
Well I have decided that at Eva Joyce we are going to make a change to how we view bridal sizing!
We have developed a unique lettered system that has no discernible pattern. This is how we will identify sizes. You could be a size A or a size S and it wont matter as long as you are comfortable in the dress.
This is one of the many ways in which shopping with us at Eva Joyce is different to any other bridal store. You will never see a size cube, tag or label in our dresses. Unless you specifically ask your stylist you will not know what size your wedding dress is compared to high street sizes. Our dresses are designed to enhance the beauty your are born with by making you feel confident, comfortable and of course drop dead gorgeous.
If you are still worried about sizing please feel free to give us a call on 01422 251847.
