Design your Own Tea Dress for Women

Your label, your brand

Within our design interface, you can choose to create your own custom labels for your tea dresses for women. Each fabric label is custom made at the time we make your printed tea dresses, 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 custom tea dresses as well as helping you to become instantly recognizable. 

The flounce tea dress for women is available in a choice of three materials. Real 100% Silk Satin is smooth and has a wonderful shine to its face. The flowing drape creates a dreamy finish and the perfect feminine touch. Fashion Crepe is an intricately textured stretch crepe that is full of character. Lightweight and durable, made from springy, spun yarn this double-faced fabric has a soft handle. Butterfly Smooth Crepe is extremely soft to the touch, a lightweight and floaty fabric which is incredibly sensual. With a subtle crepe sheen, this material shimmers beautifully in the light.

The silk sensation binding finish on the neckline and cleavage shifts into a belt tie, which threads through the button hole and ties at your midsection. This waist-cinching effect is fantastic for accentuating your natural curves and giving an hourglass figure.

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.

How do I change the belt color?

Within the design interface, you are presented with an option for the top stitch thread and binding. This allows you to change the color of both the thread that is used to stitch your custom tea dress for women as well as the binding and belt.

Are tea dress for women easy to care for?

Good news - they are! Both crepe fabrics can be machine washed at 86°F/30°C. They are both tumble dryer safe on low heat (but we would recommend hanging to dry) and they can both be ironed on a low heat if needed. The Real 100% Silk Satin is dry clean only or hand washed in cold water with silk detergent.

How do I tie my wrap dress?

To start, feed the tie on the left through the small hole on the right side seam. Pull the right side tie across to the opposite side and pull both ties towards the back, cross over, and wrap both ties towards the front. Knot any way you like.