Maxi slip dress custom made

Your label, your brand

If you are planning to sell your designs, you may want to add your brand name to a fabric label for a professional touch. Each label is designed uniquely when your ladies slip dress is hand made. You could include a personal message or even your customer's name if you'd like to. Custom labels are perfect for building your brand name and becoming instantly recognizable.

Sophia maxi Slip Dresses are made to order; they are printed by hand with your artwork or design. Choose from three luxurious fabrics with unique qualities: 100% Real Silk Satin, sensual and elegant and natural; Butterfly Smooth Crepe, lightweight and chosen for this garment due to its floaty qualities; or Lustrous Seduction Poly Satin, with a drape that wraps around your body like a second skin. Make your own long slip for ladies online for a unique, elegant garment.

Please Note: Warning- Keep Away From Fire. Our Slip Dress is suitable for adults, and children over 10 years. 100% real silk satin must be handled with care as it is delicate in nature. 

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.

Isn't a slip underwear?

Slips were originally worn as undergarments for a variety of reasons, but the '90s and early 2000s saw an underwear-as-outerwear trend that saw the creation of the slip dress. This was designed to resemble under slips, and look like underwear, but was very much intended to be seen. Since then slip dresses have become widely worn as evening or cocktail wear.

How is my maxi slip dress finished?

Every little detail of this slip dress has been carefully considered by our expert at the design stage of this dress. From the spaghetti straps to the bust darts and the v-neck to the hem. Each of the long slip for ladies dresses in hand finished with a neat, elegant pin hem. Even the smallest details have been thought about with this fantastic garment.

How many printable areas are there?

You can design both the front and back of this beautiful dress, either with the same design, or a different one. It is a large area to customize which gives you a great canvas for your creative flair. The only part of this dress that doesn't come printed with your design is the straps and edging tape, which is available in either black or white, depending on the thread color that you choose.