hey girls here…
i wanna know wats so special abt a designer dress that u r ready to pay over 2000$???
wats special abt their offer? any special clothes that other shops dont have? or any special Kam works on it which others cant make same?or their outfit sewing is special way so neat or clean that other tailors cant make?
wats realy special???to pay thousands $ to them!?
thoes who paid for designer Why u paid? & thoes who didnt pay why u didnt pay any Reason???
im realy confused!!!
Re: why designers??anything special?
QUALITY, for one, in everything- material, kaam, finishing, tailoring. and the design. you pay for their eye for colour, their design sense, their skill in putting pieces together you might not necessarily have thought would work, etc.
same reasons why you would pay $400 for a michael kors purse instead of paying $20 for one at target.
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yar i m really nt in dis favor....designers are so much expensive and same dresses can be made in less cost...i wont bhe spending more than 50k on my bridal dress and not more than 30k on my mehndi...all bridals look same
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show off.. brags.. too much money and no where to spend.
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i got a designer dress for my engagement and non-designer for my wedding. and honestly, i felt really bad for spending money on a designer dress when a reasonably good dress couldve been made otherwise for far less.
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exactly
designer dress is only name and show shaw..n nuthng else
i got a designer dress for my engagement and non-designer for my wedding. and honestly, i felt really bad for spending money on a designer dress when a reasonably good dress couldve been made otherwise for far less.
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i think the designer discussion is interesting because initially i wondered too if what i spent on my two bridals was really wasteful, and the conclusion i had is that this is what you really pay for:
vision - designers have an eye and that's why they are in business. in my case, nilofer shahid did an outstanding job on both of my bridal dresses and both of them are unique, custom and fit me to the t without her even having met me.
convenience - you pay for having someone take your vision and there's to make something outstanding, that you know you will love, and that you do not have to hassle around to find. you pay for the convenience of going to a designer house, having options, seeing fabrics and not having to deal with the run around. they will also work very closely with you to deliver to you exactly what you want. i really appreciated her making so much time for me to design aspects of the dress exactly how i envisioned and throughout it was a two way street.
quality - designer dresses are really impeccable. i know i can pull out my wedding dress in 25 years and it will be in outstanding condition. granted it won't look as fresh or beautiful as it did on the wedding day, but its quality will remain and i know i can re-wear it if i choose to do so. it also has very high quality jewels on it and those i'm sure have some value added, but i have no idea. part of the quality is that its also impeccably tailored. without having met me, my dress fit like a glove and looked in every way custom.
custom factor - you know that if you invest enough time and effort in having the dress made, you know nobody else will be wearing something exactly the same. most designers won't do EXACTLY the same outfits but similar versions or changes to the dupatta and kameez. if someone ends up copying some alterations you made to a dress that's not so bad, but in some cases, a lot of designers have had their designs copied so much time it loses its value.
those are only a few reasons why i'd go designer, but i will say this, having gone designer on all of my events - engagement, nikah, mehendi, wedding and valima - you can get some lovely non-designer dresses that are really beautiful and come out great in pictures. i will say though that upclose, the designer dresses are just flawless.
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actully i asked this qs as from far in internet i feel all dresses r same!
so im confused how ppl pay three or 4 times more for a dress! which i can say i would prefer to spend somewhere else as i wouldnt wear my dress again...fabric looks same for me...kam also i feel i can choose & combine...
i may pay for a bag or shoes which is brand one cuz qulaity will be diffrent realy(but not for thoes unique brands which charges u 400-500$ for one BAG till some point u can pay for quality but after some amount u r not paying for quality as quality cant be better so u r only paying for NAMES! but for dresses in pakistan i didnt feel difference in Quality also if u give ur dress to a proffesional tailor...Agree or NOT? bcuz in internet all seem same in pictures...
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The thing is yeah you can go to a tailor and get a duplicate made but in the end without designers we wouldn't be seeing the trends and suits there are today. Regular tailors are in business because they survive off making duplicates.
Personally Its your wedding day! Why not indulge on the biggest day of your life. Designer can create something that regular tailors cannot. A designer will also fix their mistake whereas a tailor will not.
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right navnsabz
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ahan...means in pakistan tailors dont correct their mistake but designers rechange anything u wont like? u meant this?
& also for thoes r coming new still waiting to know why or why not designer?
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Absolutely :k:
It all depends on what you think is more important. For some its purse. For some its shoes. For some its jewelry. For some its their clothes.
People pay for the quality that usually stands behind the name. If these designer dresses were of the same caliber as non-designer, people like Bunto Kazmi would have been put out of business a long time ago.
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Well I personally Dont have anything against designers nor for the non-designers. But for my wedding I am not wasting money on Clothes that I can easily get duplicates made. & The works designers do, they also have tailors and ppl who do embroidery for them, its obviously not them sittin on the machine. My friends have seen designers like nomi ansari picking up laces and clothes from Karahai/workdone wale in Gulf,khi.
People pay for the creativity designers have. If you know how to play smart & u know ur colors well, U know from where to get the best work done. U can easily get the same thing made. Becuz Designers after all get the work done from these places as well.
But designers have the customer satisfaction & time factor in their favor. About correcting their mistakes & tailors not doing that, I dont agree. I have a same tailor for past 6 yrs now & even if I get one shirt alter ten times, he does it. But I am sure no designer will give that much time to me, they wod invest tht time somewhere else.
It really doesnt matter, those who can spend & who feel they have to- have to spend on designers, They should. & Those who feel k its not such a big deal & its not abt a status symbol, then they can go for a non designer. It depends on the person & teir vision. Wedding day is about being beautiful and being at ur best, if you have ur spirits high & positive attitude u can ace any dress.
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^absolutely agree with nidasak!! If you have an above average sense of style and aesthetics, it makes no sense for you to go to a designer. Otherwise, it's all about carrying the designer name when people ask about your dress, or you just have that kind of disposable cash.
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^ i disagree. i'd say those who go to designers don't go there because they think they can't do better on their own, they go to a designer because they would rather have something of superior quality and workmanship than someone who doesn't care so much about whether the fit is flawless or the kaam is precisely what they asked for. when you shop designer, budget isn't always your priority- sometimes its the name of the designer, sometimes its their sense of style, sometimes its the desire for a superior quality product, and a lot of times for the shoppers flying in from abroad its about the convenience of knowing you'll go to one place where they'll make something just for you and make it well. when you go non-designer, budget it almost always the driving force behind the decison. and to each their own. there is no right or wrong here.
i also think that its important to see a designers work in person next to an outfit from a kaam wala or tailor to appreciate the difference. the internet lies, lets face it. pictures can be photoshopped and you can't really appreciate the quality of the material or the kaam from a thumbnail. i'll admit, i certainly didn't think going designer was worth it until i saw my SIL's nomi ansari wedding dress and then i was completely sold on the concept. no matter how much time and effort you put into a kehkashan jora, there is no way it would have looked like what nomi ansari made for that girl. on the other hand, my cousin in karachi didn't agree with spending so much on a designer and went through hell trying to get a designer outfit copied for her wedding by herself from kehkashan- not only did the karigar drive her half crazy in the process with delays and wrong kinds of kaam and cutting corners where they could, as most karigars will do, but you could tell from the end result that it was a relatively inferior product. her priority though was not so much how it looked-- although certainly she wanted a beautiful jora, what bride wouldn't-- as much as it was saving money. her jora was 60-something rupees vs. the 2.5 lakh my sil paid -- and having seen both, i can say every penny of that difference showed.
so like someone else here said, its all about your priorities. its not that you can't t love a kehkashan jora or that on occasion you won't come across a beautiful outfit from a boutique like Jabeen's on Tariq Road (whom I love) for less, but a designer jora like, for eg: a Bunto gharara for 6 lakh will always be superior to a Tariq Road jora for 1.5 lakh, and thats just fact.
also, let me just point out that Karachi is mad expensive. i was there around this time last year, and getting a bridal under 1 lakh, even from a readymade store, is very difficult to do without either putting the effort and "sar khup" to get it done yourself, or compromising on quality. it just comes down to your priorities.
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Designers usually have a very talented "darzi" team who know exactly where the cuts should be. If you get a replicated dress it might look like the original one in terms of color but very rarely in the cut. That's what sets designers apart. Plus there are some things that can never be replicated - for instance a Bunto dress :-) You can get inspired by the dress' color and all but the embroideries and cuts that are on a Bunto dress are just TRES BIEN! It's the same when you buy western wear - be it shoes, bags or dresses.
I would go for the designer wear anytime - If only I could afford it :-) If not a copy is fine, well-knowing that it's not just the same as the original one.
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I think SGC has said it all… 
ive seen some of those so called designers on facebook with pictures of designer wear claiming to replicate an outfit for you. Even though i would never wear anything replicated i decided to ask the price, i believe it was a karma dress…and she quoted like €300 and when i looked on the karma website the Original was coming up to be around €240 or around that…
so why would i even bother getting a fake when you can get the original 
plus it probably was going be a crap version anyway!!
I think i like the peace of mind, that i can walk into a designer store in lahore, choose an outfit, and voila its there its ready and i dont have to go to any darzis, or crazy shopping around for kaam waley etc etc…id rather save my energy as a bride.
They might be able to replicate the outfit, but i just wouldnt feel right wearing an outfit and claiming i got it from HSY when clearly its made by some random darzi. i mean what justice is that to the original creator…id feel like i was lying to everyone and a tad bit guilty… 
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Its one thing if you can't afford a designer or just don't want to go with that option, but its another to get a close copy of the original design. There's a difference between getting inspired by colour combination from that designer outfit, cut from another outfit and work from another outfut and putting all ideas together than getting 80/90% of blatant copy of a particular designer outfit. So I'm not a really a fan this whole trend of coying designers' original pieces.
Since its an award season in Hollywood , I was reading a very interesting article in Vogue which was talking about stars dressing up for the camera not for the person (I think Fashion police at E! also brought up this issue) which I think is an important point to bring in this discussion. I fully agree designer clothes looking and feeling so much superior in person, there's no doubt however not every piece photographs so well. I've came across plenty of designer pieces on this website, where I like the outfit and they do look 'nice' (in a rather blah way) but nothing that screems out I worth a multi million rupees, sometimes you have to know the designer label to appreciate it. I'm saying that because when I compare some light hued sophisticated looking designer bridal yet looking very 'vanilla' in photos, whereas I know a pashtun girl whose non designer jora with authentic and rich and traditional kaam photographed so damn well. She honestly looked so regal and her dress bursting out in pictures...simply so exuberant and original. I guess once the day is over no one cares to remember how the dress felt in person, its the photographs you brood over for as long as you live.
When I get married InshAllah, designer or no designer, my main priority will be to dress for the camera. :D (I guess its just an award season fever lol but I'm begining to see a point. lol)
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no im not talking abt Copy as copy story is else...
just wanted here why ppl prefer designers & why some ppl dont belive them?