This is a brand brand new Rime Arodaky Sewell dress. Never worn and never altered. The dress is still in the original protective sleeve, in the same condition as when it first arrived from Paris. Backstory is that after purchasing the Rime dress, I fell in love with a different dress and ended up purchasing (and wearing) that other dress to my wedding. So, sadly, the Rime dress never got worn. But, this is a great oppportunity for someone else to get a brand new Rime dress for half the price!
Couple things to note about the dress:
- Per my request, the designers at Rime Arodaky added long sleeves to the dress for me (which I paid extra for). So, the dress as it currently stands, is identical to the original design, but has long sleeves. If you wanted to go back to the original short sleeve/cap sleeve design, it would be an easy fix in alterations to have the sleeves taken off (although I highly recommend trying it with the long sleeves, it looks great and makes the dress more custom!)
- The other difference is the dress, as sent to us, does not currently have the buttons sewn down the front. We opted to keep them off and add them later if we want. I do have the buttons in a little pouch, and they will be sent to you along with the dress. Any alterations person can easily add them to the front of the dress if you want to stay true to the original design.
The photos attached are from when I tried the dress on at Loho Bride in San Francisco, on the day it arrived from Paris. The dress was never tried on again after that day that I picked it up. In these photos, you can see the way the dress looks with the long sleeves and no buttons. But again, alterations can easily cut off the sleeves off and add the buttons back if you prefer.
Since the dress has not yet been altered at all, there are many options as far as taking it in, letting it out, and hemming it. It can be adjusted to fit a size 0/2/4 US. As far as length, it is very long and there is plenty of room to hem if needed, or keep as is if you are over 5'11" (I am 5'9" and the dress is very long on me, I would have needed to shorten it by at least a foot).