After three years of talking to tailors and women living in large bodies, I learned that there’s joy to be found in garments made to fit you perfectly
The couturier is using her tape measure like a magic wand. The hand, faster than the eye, is calibrating elbow to wrist, circumference of neck, knee to floor. An assured air, a deft movement and voila, the tape measure is up between the legs, shoulder to crotch is noted and the tape is out again before the client even registers.
It’s an intimate process, being measured for a handmade wedding dress. Couturiers become the keepers of secrets, the holders of confidences, the conjurers of dreams. They must be exquisite listeners, tough-love truth-tellers and amateur psychotherapists. They are architects of fabric, aesthetic innovators, geniuses with lace and silk, and most of all they must believe in the sacred commitment of love, one to another.
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