Formal Wear

Wedding Suits for Women--Custom Made 2- and 3-Piece Suits

Wedding Suits for Women–Custom Made 2- and 3-Piece Suits

We make many suits every year for all occasions.  And many of those occasions are the most formal ones. Finding a beautiful wedding dress or evening dress can sometimes be difficult.  But if you would prefer to wear a stunning white or black suit?  That can feel impossible. In addition to our custom dressmaking shop, [...]

Victorian Wedding Gowns

Victorian Wedding Gowns

We make some of the most amazing custom dresses out there. You let us know a bit about yourself and your style and we start sketching. This dress, however, is the one that I have been promising to post for the last few months:  My own wedding dress. As a designer and dressmaker, choosing the [...]

1950s Style Wedding and Evening Dresses

1950s Style Wedding and Evening Dresses

1950s style dresses—which are fitted at the waist and full in the skirt—are one of the most flattering silhouettes for all body types and figures. We make a ton of 50s style dresses in all sizes, often for weddings, but also for other formal and semi-formal occasions and for customers in Colorado as well as [...]


Completely Custom (Steampunk!) Wedding Gowns

Completely Custom (Steampunk!) Wedding Gowns

A custom wedding gown is a different animal from the mere store-bought. It might be strapless–but it doesn’t have to be. It might be white–or gold or silver or pink. It might be a classic style that everyone will love—or something eccentric, bold, utterly simple, or madly embellished. A wedding gown from the store is [...]

Victorian Petticoats, Corsets and Wedding Dresses

Victorian Petticoats, Corsets and Wedding Dresses

When we make a wedding dress for a customer, we help you think about not only the parts of the garment that show, but also about the hidden parts of the garment that make the body look awesome. Our little workshop has been hard at work making dresses and suits for the many weddings that [...]

Designing a Wedding Dress

Designing a Wedding Dress

We are making many wonderful wedding dresses this season, but especially exciting is the dress that I am making for my own wedding. A.J. and I are getting married this summer and are planning our wedding attire.  Right now I am in the process of designing my dress. If you order a custom wedding dress, [...]


Handmade Mod Dresses

Handmade Mod Dresses

Imagine shopping for a dress when there are a virtually infinite number of choices in your size and all of them will fit you perfectly. Imagine a catalog of dresses that includes every style of dress ever worn. We can make the dress of your dreams. Send us your favorite still of Audrey Hepburn or [...]

Retro Wedding Dresses

Retro Wedding Dresses

We love to make retro and mod dresses. We can make dresses in pretty much any style and any length, but lots of our clients recently have contacted us looking for tea length dresses that have a bit of vintage flare. This dress in a stunning blush pink is cut from an amazing vintage beaded [...]

Handmade Wedding Dresses (in any style)

Handmade Wedding Dresses (in any style)

We make some of the best clothing in the world. One of our specialties is creating unique, custom, handmade wedding attire. Unlike nearly every other bridal shop in this country, we produce our patterns and dresses entirely in house. This means that we can create a dress in any style, with any detail that you [...]


A California Wedding

A California Wedding

We make wedding dresses and suits for customers all over the world. And occasionally we are fortunate enough to have customers send us pictures of the pieces in action. This dress was made in a cocktail length for a wedding on a yacht.  The styling of the dress was based on one of our other [...]

Old Hollywood Wedding Dresses

Old Hollywood Wedding Dresses

We handle the attire for so many weddings, some right here in Colorado, and many in places such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Scotland. For some of the weddings, we make the dresses, for some the men’s suits (through our website www.DenverBespoke.com) and for a few we do both the attire for the [...]

Retro Summer Dresses

Retro Summer Dresses

We love to make 1950s and 1960s style dresses. Some for bridesmaids and summer weddings, some for work, author’s book tours, some for picnics and BBQs. Because everything we do is custom, we can make a dress in any fabric and with any set of details you can imagine. Suppose you see an old newsreel [...]


Retro Cocktail Dresses

Retro Cocktail Dresses

You can’t beat the 1960s when it comes to chic streamlined cocktail dresses. A little bit Mad Men, a little bit space age, the A-line dress is the classic silhouette of the 60s. The first dress (in red and black) is cut from a vintage wool handbag fabric.  The second dress (with the hand-crafted felt [...]

Retro Party Attire

Retro Party Attire

We made this outfit for a customer in Baltimore who wanted something unique to wear to her brother’s wedding. The corset top is made from a wool herringbone tweed in blues and greys. It is completely structured and shaped. The skirt is made from 100% silk duchess with wide pleats. The whole outfit feels completely [...]

Wedding Dresses in EVERY Size

Wedding Dresses in EVERY Size

So you are petite or plus size.  That doesn’t mean that you should be stuck with a wedding dress that is anything less than exactly the dress of your dreams. Because we custom make every piece using a unique hand-drafted pattern, we can make a wedding dress that fits you perfectly.  Our muslin fitting process [...]


1950s Style Party Dresses

1950s Style Party Dresses

Here are a couple versions of one of the favorite dresses that we have made. It is pure 1950′s but with a few touches that make for a more flattering look that doesn’t require that you wear retro undergarments as well! The sage green dress is made from a rayon crepe that is ultra lightweight, [...]

Denver Fashion (and Wedding) Photography

Denver Fashion (and Wedding) Photography

We started our custom clothing business a few years ago, and, from the very start, we were faced with the challenge of getting good photographs. For a business that sells via the internet, photos often make the difference between whether pieces sell or don’t. But for our business, the challenge is doubly great.  Everything we [...]

Lesbian Wedding Suits--Custom Made

Lesbian Wedding Suits–Custom Made

Finding a suit for a same sex wedding ceremony can be tough. You can’t get married in a business suit from Macy’s and altering a men’s suit to fit a woman’s body is next to impossible. If you have even a bit of a sense of style, the search for a suit to get married [...]


SciFi Wedding Attire

SciFi Wedding Attire

We made these pieces for a couple based in NYC. The husband-to-be was an architect with a modernist aesthetic, the bride, a computer programmer who specialized in mobile apps. Neither of them wanted any thing traditional. They wanted something clean looking and completely modern with a touch of science fiction. The groom sent us dozens [...]

Working from Vintage Patterns

Working from Vintage Patterns

We can draft almost anything imaginable and wedding dresses are no exception. But, occasionally, a customer comes to us with a vintage pattern that she wants to see come to life as a modern dress. When we work from a vintage pattern, some modernization is almost certainly necessary. Darts need to be shortened or moved [...]

A Cocktail Wedding Dress and Bolero

A Cocktail Wedding Dress and Bolero

We don’t do stock wedding dresses. Because who wants to wear a mass-produced wedding dress? “Mass-produced” and “Wedding,” two things that ought to be mutually exclusive. Instead we ask all about you, your venue, the expected weather. The things that inspire you, whether other designers, movies, or historical periods. And we start sketching until we [...]