| Designing
your dress is a very difficult thing to do! First of all you want to come up with a design that is special to you so that nobody else will have a dress quite like yours. However, you still want it to be traditionally Irish! It is therefore easy to fall into the trap of using the 'standard' designs of Claddagh and Tara brooches that you see everywhere. My Mum and Dad thought it was a good idea for us all to discuss it, especially as they had to pay for it! Mum and I unfortunately had different ideas of the basic colours, and in the end agreed to use both our ideas. As it turned out I think this was probably a better idea anyway! My Dad made up the basic designs for my dress on the computer and then we went down to place in Colchester that was called Celtic Image where a very nice man called Paul sat down with him and they put together a really nice dress design between them. Meanwhile Mum and I discussed materials and colours etc. with the very helpful ladies and the man called Martin who all made me feel very special. They were all very friendly and really seemed to enjoy making the dresses. I was shown how they make them and saw several dresses being put together. |
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The
Basic Designs The design my Dad has used consists of my Mum's family crest - The O'Mahony's of Tralee |
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The
Brath (or cape) has the crest of Tra Li (Tralee) in Co.Kerry,
Eire, where my Mum was born and all my family, including
my Nan, still live. |
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