Try eleven dresses. Buy one.
A quiet shop on a Georgian street with two fitting rooms, no commission, and a seamstress upstairs.
We stock eleven houses and nothing else, because eleven is the number our two fitting rooms can do properly in two hours. Every dress is altered here by Teresa, who has been doing it for thirty one years and has never once suggested you lose weight for the fitting.
Charlotte Simpson
British, clean lines, almost no beading.
Savin London
Separates and two piece looks for a register office.
Halfpenny London
Soft, layered, good for a barn or a garden.
Andrea Hawkes
Structured bodices, deep pockets, sensible straps.
Rime Arodaky
French, sharper, for a bride who does not want a princess dress.
Your appointment
The first visit.
You, two people at most, and a glass of something. We pull five or six and you try them on. No pressure to buy on the day and no discount for doing so.
Choosing.
If you want to sleep on it, sleep on it. We hold nothing back and we will not ring you.
The alterations.
First at twelve weeks, second at six, last at two. Bring the shoes and the underwear you will actually wear.
Collection.
Pressed, bagged, and shown to you on the hanger before it leaves.
In store we hold
- UK 8 to UK 20 in the sample rails
- A 22 and a 24 in four styles
- Petite lengths in three houses
- If we do not hold your size we will say so on the phone before you travel
Alterations
- Hem and bustle
- Bodice taken in or let out
- Straps or sleeves added
- Full restructure
- Allow twelve weeks
“I had been to two shops where they clipped me into things three sizes too small. Here they rang ahead and told me exactly what they had in a 20.”
Two hours, two guests, eleven designers. Nothing is held back for later.