please help me!!!! dress lining

[tickie]

i am just curious to get some opinions.....I am having a dress made (2 piece in duchess silk, 3/4 sleeves, portrait neckline, sheath skirt, the top has a separate train extending from the bottom). Anyway, the top is lined, but when I had the second fitting the skirt wasn't lined even tho the only work that had to be done on the skirt was the hem.

Does this seem odd? I don't know much about dressmaking but I thought it would be easier to have the lining in before the waist band was finished. It should be lined, right? How else would I prevent wrinkling when I'm seated?

And this dress has no embellishments and is made of a nice enough duchess silk (altho I wanted silk twill - dressmaker said she couldn't get it) I am starting to wonder if I may have been gypped - $2200 including veil and all alterations.

What do you all think?

[aurelia]

I am by no means a dress maker but I used to do costumes for theater and we lined everything. It does seem a little odd that the top of the dress is lined but the bottom isn't. Did you ask the seamstress? Could she just be waiting to do that as the last thing? When you make garments, there is always a right way and a wrong way but everyone still has their own techniques. You should definately talk to her and find out exactly what she's planning on doing.

[Vixen]

i have made a lot of costumes over the years, and as a matter of fact i made a sothernbell dress from a pattern of a wedding dress. there should be lining. if you want to reasure yourself before you go to the dress maker, go look at a dress from a bridal shop. then you can compare.

however not everyone follows the directions to what it says either. there are all kinds of different ways and techniques to doing the same thing, and end up having the same product all in the end.

[sandstar]

I'm having my dress made too and she did the lining first and then the silk layers. There was lining in the top and skirt parts.

[chiefsgirl]

Ask the dressmaker to show you the package of the pattern for your dress...it will tell you in the directions where the lining is and how much of it there should be (lined in the bust area, lined halfway down the skirt, etc.)...I bought a pattern and my aunt is making my dress...I had to read the back of the package to see how much material to buy for all parts of the dress.