Traditional Wedding Dresses
made to measure
Most of our brides dress twice — once for the traditional ceremony and once for the white wedding — and the traditional outfit is too often treated as the lesser garment. We give it the same pattern drafting, the same fittings and the same finishing.
How we cut it
We work with the fabric your family has chosen, whether that is shweshwe, Venda or Xhosa cloth, isiZulu beadwork or West African lace, and draft a modern pattern around it. Headpieces and wraps are made to match, and we advise on how the outfit will move during the ceremony.
Umembeso, lobola celebrations, umabo, traditional ceremonies and two-day weddings.
We never copy a family design without permission, and we will not reproduce another designer's photograph.
Fabrics
- Shweshwe
- Traditional prints
- Beaded panels
- Silk lining
Traditional Wedding Dresses across South Africa
Fittings are handled remotely with our measuring guide and a posted toile, then the finished piece is couriered insured, door to door.
- Cape Town
- Johannesburg
- Pretoria
- Durban
- Port Elizabeth
- Bloemfontein
- East London
- Pietermaritzburg
- Nelspruit
- Polokwane
- Rustenburg
- Kimberley
- Potchefstroom
- Welkom
- George
- Knysna
- Stellenbosch
- Franschhoek
- Paarl
- Somerset West
- Hermanus
- Worcester
- Malmesbury
- Mossel Bay
- Plettenberg Bay
- Jeffreys Bay
- Uitenhage
- Mthatha
- Queenstown
- Grahamstown
- Umhlanga
- Ballito
- Richards Bay
- Newcastle
- Ladysmith
- Sandton
- Midrand
- Centurion
- Randburg
- Roodepoort
- Krugersdorp
- Benoni
- Boksburg
- Kempton Park
- Germiston
- Alberton
- Soweto
- Vereeniging
- Vanderbijlpark
- Klerksdorp
- Mahikeng
- Upington
- Springbok
- Tzaneen
- Middelburg
- Secunda
- Bethlehem
- Harrismith
- Kroonstad
- Sasolburg
Shapes brides often compare with this one
- Lace Wedding DressesCorded Chantilly and guipure, placed by hand rather than cut through.
- Mermaid Wedding DressesFitted to the knee, then released — the hardest silhouette to fit off a rail.
- Ball Gown Wedding DressesA true full skirt, weighted so it moves rather than wobbles.
- A-Line Wedding DressesThe silhouette that flatters almost everyone, cut properly.
- Long Sleeve Wedding DressesSleeves drafted to your arm, so you can lift them.
- Corset Wedding DressesReal internal boning — support you can dance in.
- Simple Wedding DressesNothing to hide behind — which is why the cut has to be perfect.
- Plus Size Wedding DressesDrafted from your measurements — no grading up a sample.
- Modest Wedding DressesCovered, lined and still unmistakably couture.
