Women's Elizabethan Costume, Bridal Gown, Renaissance Dress (Made To Order) LABOR FEES

Women's Spanish Gown, Custom Embroidery, Elizabethan, Costume, Bridal Gown, (Made To Order) LABOR FEES

EMBROIDERY PATTERN: Copyrights 2021 ArtEmbroideryDesigns

FABRICS NOT INCLUDED!

DESCRIPTION: GOWN SHOWN IS FOR SAMPLE PURPOSES ONLY - NOT FOR RETAIL. Each gown is a one-of-a-kind custom-made couture gown and cannot be duplicated exactly as shown. Use this gown as inspiration, but your gown will be similar with individual customized embroidered embellishment - Some limitations apply. CONTACT ME for my availability.

Fees listed are for labor ONLY. Client responsible for Fashion Fabrics. All embellishments shown in sample (beading, pearls, metallic findings trims) are not included - See cost breakdown below under "Additional" for total cost breakdown

Gown includes:
- Bodice
- Fitted sleeves with hand-made piping and matching lining.
- Oversleeves
- 4 to 5 panel skirt, hand cartridge pleated.
- Forepart

**Headdress Sold Separately

ADDITIONAL:

- Silks or Silk blends WILL require hem guards: Add $60 to the listed labor fees.

- Pearls used in this design are authentic freshwater cultured pearls, 3 to 4 mm rice Grade A on sleeves and forepanel. 4 to 5 mm on doublet and skirt facings. Approximately 14 strands of pearls were used in the sample gown pictured and approximately 2400 glass beads. Current wholesale price of pearls is approximately $12 per 15.5 to 16 inch strand.

- Beading Fees: Glass beads and authentic freshwater pearls fetch a fee of $50 per strand to apply. This gown took 14 strands and 80+ hours to hand sew beads and pearls. Beading/pearling fees for each gown is dependent upon the embroidery or trims chosen. Average gown uses 5 strands and fetches labor fees of approximately $250. These fees are non-negotiable. $250 for 80 hours of labor breaks down to approximately $3.13 an hour and is a HUGE discount that plunges far beneath the minimum hourly wage of $10 to $15 an hour in the USA! Beading fees, if estimated using the current minimum wage of $10 an hour, would normally fetch a fee of $800, which is nearly the entire cost to construct the gown. Therefore, labor fees for beading and pearling are firm and non-negotiable and will be added to your final billing statement.

APPROX YARDAGE PROVIDED BY CLIENT:

7 yards brocade OR silk, 58 inches wide (Skirt)
2 yards brocade OR silk, 58 inches wide (Bodice & Sleeve)
2.5 yards Silk (Forepart)
1 yard muslin or cotton (bodice lining)

COST BREAKDOWN:

PURPLE GOWN:

Gown Construction LABOR (bodice, overskirt, purple oversleeves and shoulder ruffle: $540

Embroidery LABOR (bodice, skirt facings, oversleeves, hem medallions) $750

Beading LABOR: $350

BLACK EMBROIDERED SLEEVES: $358 - - RETAIL

BLACK EMBROIDERED FOREPART: $558 - - RETAIL

PEARLS: 12 strands of 3 to 4 mm freshwater rice pearls: $156


ADDITIONAL SPECIALIZED NOTIONS SUPPLIED BY DFT

1.5 yards Fusible Batiste Linen (doublet interfacing)
2 yards Fusible Batiste for skirt embroidery stabilizer
2 yards Fusible Batiste for Oversleeve embroidery stabilizer
2 yards Fusible Batiste for Undersleeve embroidery stabilizer
10 to 12 yards 3 inch grosgrain (cartridge pleat stabilizer)
2 Spools Cotton/poly blend sewing thread
4 Large Hooks & Eye (Skirt)
5 to 6 yards Hand made Piping (1.5 yard of silk cut on the bias)
12 Spools Gold Metallic Embroidery thread - $119
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$239

GRAND TOTAL - NOT INCLUDING PURPLE COTTON VELVETEEN FABRIC:

$2951 LABOR and Specialized Notions

Available in the following sizes Only:

USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . France
2 (X-Small). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
4 (X-Small/Small) . . . . . . . . . . . 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
6 (Small). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
8 (Medium). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
10 (Medium). . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
12 (Large). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
14 (Large-X-Large). . . . . . . . . 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
16 (X-Large/1X) . . . . . . . . . . . 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
18 (1X/2X). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48/50
20 (2X) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50/52

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Contact me for more details.
NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR CLIENTS: I am consistently booked out 12 to 15+ months at a time. Please contact me to check my availability before ordering. To be added to my schedule, I now require a 30% non-refundable deposit to hold a reservation. Client MUST choose their fabrics THREE months prior to their reservation date to allow for the purchase of swatches and to order fabric. If fabric is not included in your purchase, client will be responsible for their purchase and must be shipped to me and received no LESS than TWO months in advance of your reservation. Upper body cast is required wearing the appropriate corset. Tutorial will be provided for the cast. Cast must be received TWO months in advance of your reservation. If there is a delay on your end, rescheduling is no longer guaranteed, due to abuses of my time and clients ghosting on their reservation and failure to respond to my communication on Etsy. All communication must take place via Etsy in order to comply with their policies. If a client has paid in full at the time of purchase, rather than placed a deposit, and they do not follow the above guidelines or fail to respond to my messages in a timely fashion causing a delay, their order will be placed on a permanent hold until requirements have been met. This includes failure to respond to messages on Etsy, failure to provide any and all measurements necessary at the time reservation is taken and the time period prior to the date work is to commence, failure to comply with time allotment for the purchase and shipment of fabrics. No refunds will be issued. Store credit will be issued only. To be rescheduled, once you have missed your deadlines, clients will be required to pay an additional 30% non-refundable deposit to compensate for my loss. Rescheduling means I have lost income whilst turning away other clients to accommodate your reservation. Please be advised, any client that ghosts on their reservation or causes a delay, and is subsequently cancelled, future reservations with Designs From Time will no longer be accepted.

I take (and fill) orders for gowns, coats, and ensembles on a First Come basis, no matter if paid in full at the time of purchase and regardless of the 9 to 10 week timeline listed for turn-around. Etsy does not provide the 3 - 4 month option that I require for construction of detailed pieces.

**Handmade items will have small imperfections.

**No refunds. All Sales are final.

QUALITY STANDARDS: Each Designs From Time ensemble is created to meet my exacting standards, and I am a perfectionist! All my bodices - whether working class or noble - are CUSTOM DRAFTED to fit each individual client. My bodices are not cookie-cut patterns, nor do I approach my designs with a "one size fits most" concept using a commercial pattern source that you HOPE will fit. Rather than trying to make your body fit into a commercial pattern, I take the time and added effort to custom drape and draft a pattern to fit YOUR unique body. You may find reproduction clothing that is cheaper, but a bargain isn't a bargain if what you're buying is substandard workmanship. My designs are clothing NOT costume. They are among the sturdiest your money can buy. The quality you see pictured is the quality that you receive.

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IMPLIED AGREEMENT:

~ COMMUNICATION: Buyer agrees and acknowledges by the remittance of their 30% Non-Refundable Deposit, or payment in full at the time of purchase, that ALL communication with DFT, hereafter known as Seller, must remain through Etsy in order to abide by Etsy’s policies for Sellers. Buyer further agrees that once their order has been placed with DFT, a.k.a. Seller, Buyer will maintain REGULAR contact with DFT, i.e., including but not limited to, checking their Etsy messages on a regular basis throughout the duration their commission is listed on DFT’s schedule until such time as their commission has been completed, the balance paid, and the item(s) shipped.

~ UPPER BODY CASTS/MOCK-UPS: Buyer agrees and acknowledges by the remittance of their 30% Non-refundable deposit, or their Payment in full at the time of purchase, that they are responsible for creating an upper body cast from cellophane wrap and “Painter’s Tape” (NOT DUCT TAPE), which shall meet ALL the specifications in the instructional video and the PDF handout. DO NOT use Duct tape. If you use duct tape, you will be required to create another cast at your expense to include shipping. if client has not complied with these requirements as specified, your reservation can be cancelled, and you will lose your deposit. Duct tape does not render a properly fitted cast as it shrinks once you cut it off. You MUST use painter's tape. Buyer agrees and understands that if their cast is NOT made correctly (to include the specified markings) the fit of their garment CANNOT be guaranteed, and DFT will not be held liable. Furthermore, in the event that a muslin mock-up of the garment is necessary, the Buyer MUST have someone who is knowledgeable in fitting a toile (mock-up). If the mock-up is not correctly fitted, again, DFT, a.k.a. Seller, CANNOT guarantee a correct fit of the finished garment, and the Seller shall not be held liable by the Buyer.