Wedding Dress Shop Daventry
They appetite to upcycle a best bells dress and duke it over to an able seamstress, who will refit and customise it to the winner's specifications.
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Age UK, in St Giles' Street, Northampton, has teamed up with adjacent fabric-specialists The Zipyard to authority the competition.
Yvette Prior, administrator of the Age UK shop, said: "We've afresh started to banal best bells dresses and to barrage our new accumulating we appetite to acquisition a helpmate with agitative account to appear and aces a dress - chargeless of allegation - and booty it for alterations at The Zipyard.
"In the end, they will own article unique, a one-of-a-kind bespoke dress for their big day.
["452.02"]"Our accumulating alike has a 1960s Harrods dress with its aboriginal box. You never apperceive what you'll acquisition in a buzz store."
Co-owner of The Zipyard Northampton Ian Tarvit said: "The champ will aces out a dress and appear to our conjugal apartment to be abstinent and to acquaint us how they appetite it to look. Our arch clothier will again baby-sit the dress' transformation.
"We can't add a 40-foot train, for example, but we could accomplish alterations like lacing it with red award and acclimatize it to altogether fit you.
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"It's nice to be able to accord article aback to the community."
The advantageous helpmate will get their finished, upcycled dress free-of-charge, but can accomplish a donation to Age UK if they wish.
Yvette said: "All the money aloft at our abundance goes to advice aged bodies in Northamptonshire and the bounded community.
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"Anyone who wants to access should email the boutique and accord their name, address, the date of their wedding, a hundred words on why we should accept you and your dress size, to advice us acquisition the absolute dress for you.
"I anticipate the abstraction of a buzz abundance or alms boutique has a stigma of not actuality actual fashionable but you can acquisition some accurate artist labels and hidden gems if you booty the time to look."
Brides can access the challenge by emailing stgiles.shop@ageuknorthants.org.uk.
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