How to Design a Prom Gown Online

Creating a custom prom dress is an opportunity to exhibit your personal style.

Prom can be an exciting time, but finding the right prom dress could be stressful. Sometimes you can't find "the" dress -- no matter how hard you search. If you design your own prom dress online, you get exactly what you want -- and no other girl will be wearing the same thing.

Things You'll Need

• Measuring tape

Instructions

1. Begin by having an idea of what kind of prom dress you want to wear. Check out magazines and web sites for inspiration on what color, style and material you'd like to use.

2. Search for an online dress-design source and choose one that is easy to navigate, offers help if you anticipate having questions and provides a variety of prices, styles, colors, and fabrics. Ideal sites offer variety, ease and good customer service, such as Olivialuca.com, DressByDesign.com, and Cocomyles.com.

3. Consider which site is your best fit. For instance, Olivialuca.com offers some expensive dresses but affords many options for your personal design, including testing a color that compliments your skin tone, beading patterns and other embellishments. Meanwhile, DressByDesign.com and CocoMyles.com offer a wide range of sizes, less expensive pricing and accessory options to compliment your dress.

4. Follow the Web site's directions on how to design your dress. The steps usually involve choosing a material and color and the style of the bodice, skirt and sleeves.

5. Finalize your dress and pay for it. Take delivery times into consideration, as some options take as long as six weeks.

Tips & Warnings

• Be sure to take accurate body measurements so your dress fits right the first time.

References

• Coco Myles
• Dress By Design: How It Works
• Olivia Luca Dress Design

Resources

• Coco Myles
• Prom Girl