Week 8

This week Beverley (head of bridal production) has been away which has meant I've been extra busy helping bridal production assistant, Hayley. We've worked together mainly checking a number of different bridal dress designs with a variety of problems.

The Willow dress is still being sent to head office to enable us to check the on going problems. In addition to this we have been sent Parma Crystal and Parma Opal as the dress has a mysterious problem with the bust cups turning the dress fabric yellow. It is thought that it has something to do with the white petrol the dresses are dropped in to clean them at the end of production.

Parma Crystal/Parma Opal

I have also been filing, continuing to understand and learn the different processes and paper trails so to speak.

I'm really enjoying every job I'm given and still thoroughly enticed and inspired by bridal fashion. Thinking about the future, I am interested to find out what, if any, bridal companies are based in the South West, ideally where I'd like to be based. A lack of south-west based companies would mean I couldn't afford to be choosy.

In addition to this, while working within the head office, I often have a niggling thought about working within an actual store that actually sells the dresses to customers. I miss the direct contact with customers and the general retail experience and environment. It took me time to adjust to the fact that, in general, Jenny Packham's "customers" are store owners buying whole sale or samples. I'm interested to know what qualities you need to work within a bridal boutique. Thinking long term I'd love to have my own bridal boutique. This is a dream that developed several years ago which has been truly reignited since working within bridal at Jenny Packham.