Custom Button Down Dress

Your label, your brand

Within our online design tool, you can choose to create your own custom labels for your button through dress. Each fabric label is custom made at the time we make your dress, so you can customize with a message or your customer's name. Custom labels can really help build your brand - perfect if you intend to sell your garments with the added benefit of helping you to become easily recognizable. 

Your customized long sleeve button down dress is available in a choice of two jersey fabrics. Solange Silky Jersey is irresistibly smooth. Soft and sensual this fabric hugs the body's natural curves before cascading beautifully with its elegant drape. Soft Fashion jersey is a comfortable and casual fabric. Lightweight and luxurious the intricate construction of the yarns, denser in some places and sparser in others, give each and every garment its own unique character. 

In XXS to XXL, your custom button through dress is available in two different lengths, long line, and above-the-knee. Both button dresses, made to order, offer dazzling elegance and superior comfort. Each dress features 15 buttons, which are available either in a natural color, with white top stitch thread or in smoke color with black thread. 

Sizing For Hemming And Shrinkage

We have a full Cut & Sew service here at Contrado, and are able to hem your fabric prints for a small additional charge. We create a small one- or two-fold hem that typically uses 0.2" to 0.75" (5-20mm) of material, depending on the thickness of the fabric. So, for example, if you want a finished piece of fabric that measures 39.37" x 39.37", you will need to order a size of 39.96" x 39.96" to allow for the hem (on top of that please also allow for shrinkage of min 2%). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. You can choose to have your prints hemmed with either Black or White thread. On our silk and other light woven fabrics, one hemmed edge will be straight (vertically down the roll) and the other will be slightly rippled. The hemming material allowances are as follows and you need to make your print bigger to accommodate the hem:

• Light Fabrics (0.59oz-2.95oz): For silks and other light fabrics, we use 0.24" - 0.32" / 6mm-8mm in the hem (2 fold), so overall width/height will be minus 0.48"-0.56""/ 12-16mm
• Medium Fabrics (2.98oz-5.90oz): For medium-weight fabrics that fray, we use 0.5 - 0.75" / 15-20mm in the hem (2 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 1.4" - 1.6" / 35-40mm
• Stiff/Heavy/No-fray fabrics: we use 0.5 - 0.75" / 15-20mm in the hem (1 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 1.5" / 35-40mm

All of these measurements are approximate and can vary. Including with shrinkage, it can mean a fairly significant difference to ordered dimensions, so please plan your print accordingly. Depending on how open the weave is, our fabric can shrink anywhere from 2% to 8% with the average being 2.5%.

How Would you Like the Edge?

• As it comes. We cut around your image, leaving a simply scissor cut, perhaps uneven white fabric border. 
• Hem with thread. We can hem your fabric with a choice of black or white thread. Please allow 1-2 days additional production time. See below for information on how hemming affects the size of your print. We offer an overlock hem, as well as a folded hem (one or two fold depending on the fabric) however not all fabrics are suited to both hem types. If you can see both options, it means both are suitable, and you will be able to choose whichever you prefer. 
• Cut on the line. We will cut neatly on the edge of your design. This means that if you have a border around your design we will cut around that border, if your design takes the whole space of the fabric, then we will neatly cut around the edge of that image. Please be aware, when we cut along the line, we have to cut against the grain of the fabric. This is the standard procedure for fabric cutting. This means that with some fabrics, for example, Georgette and Mulmul, which have a slight wave in them, some fraying will occur. This is unavoidable, as the cut follows the grain of the textile. 

All of our fabrics are cut manually by hand, with the utmost care and attention. If your fabric has a slightly uneven look on the edges or a touch of fraying, this does not indicate a flaw in the textile. It is not always possible to achieve a perfectly straight cut with certain fabrics, so please do bare this in mind when it comes to your design. If you have any queries or would like to know about our cutting methods in more detail, please get in touch and we will be more than happy to discuss them with you.

Please note: As we make everything by hand, all sizes may vary slightly.

For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs.

What is the difference in the button types?

The smoke buttons are a matte black and white, if you select this style of button, a white thread will be used to stitch your custom button through dress. The natural buttons are a light and dark mother of pearl and this option will come with white stitching thread.

What type of sleeves does this have?

The sleeves of your button dress, made to order, are full length. They are slim-fitting, as is the button through dress, which will give you an extended silhouette, especially in the long line style.

What is the best way to wash this fabric?

Both of these stunning jersey fabrics can be machine washed at 86°F. You can tumble dry on low heat, and should it be necessary you can also iron on low heat. We would advise hanging to dry where possible.