I am a professional dressmaker who started making dresses since the school years together with my mom and grandmother. My English name is Mary but my Chinese name is Jin Mei and I’m 31 years old. My mother also is a good dressmaker. She is 59 years old and she is dressmaker with 39 year experience on being a dressmaker. She has studied her tailors experience from her mother and my grandmother! My
grandmother, Zhang Miao, Has 2 daughters. We are 3 generation dressmakers! This is our family work for many many years. :)
Grandmother’s one Wedding dress quickly became two. Then two swelled into a collection and a collection into a passionate business. She was dreaming for a while about having her own little sewing shop and in 1959 she finally opened it. Thanks to her! Since that year our 3 generation dressmakers are working on our Sewing Shop. For my grandmother and her 2 daughters, sewing is the biggest passion in their life, right after family, and it brings so much joy to them to create wedding dresses. My grandmother convinced my mother and me to do it – and now it´s my biggest passion as well in my life. I’m born and raised in China. I am married to my middle school sweetheart and best friend and we live with our lovely 6 and 10 years old daughters in a house that we own on the city side. I love my family. Everything in my life revolves around them. I´ve always been a creative person and sewing became my passion in the creativity genre about 16 years ago. I’m working in our family Sewing Shop together with my cousin and my husband Zhi Qjang (Jim). My cousin’s English name is Gina and her Chinese name is Guang Hua, she is 33 years old and she has 13 year old beautiful teenage daughter. We are 2 cousins and my mother and my cousins mother are sisters. Both of us studied tailoring from our mothers and grandmothers skills and their experience. Our grandmother has retired now for many years and she lives in Hong Kong. Very often my and Gina’s family comes to visit her on Mainland of Hong Kong. She is now 79 years old but her eyes are still good and she studies new techniques of beading every day. She has been an excellent dressmaker and bead maker in all her live. These visits are very lovely because each time I and Gina get new ideas for wedding dress beading and embroidering. She has been also known to offer design advice and sometimes we incorporate her suggestions. She even sends us her drawings and samples by post when she get new idea with a words: girls you must try some of my new flower beading or embroidery techniques! That so nice of her – she loves to be helpful with her ideas and we appreciate so much for her help! I am a very artistic person. It’s only natural since I've always aspired to be a designer and dressmaker, as with any designer, the seduction of sewing was much too intense to resist. I love carefully curated vintage designing Lace or Flower applique Vintage Wedding and Bridesmaid dresses with a focus on classic bohemian fashion, flattering colors, and beautiful natural fabrics and help my cousin dressmaking them. We love the contact we have with our customers. We love when customers come up with ideas to personalize a piece of wedding dress to suit someone’s wishes. We simply love everything about it! And I hope some of the love we have for Wedding and Bridesmaid dresses making stays in every piece I design and we sewing and transfer to anyone who wears it! We wish with all the dresses we are making is that you feel when your wearing them the love that we felt making them! My and Gina’s skills combine together perfectly. We are working on Chinese customer custom made Wedding and Bridesmaid dresses - especially in Lace or Flower applique Vintage style. I am the sole designer and creator of every piece of Lace or Flower appliqué Vintage Wedding and Bridesmaid dresses and each piece is wonderful and handmade with quality materials in my design and actual piece that you will receive when you make a purchase. My designs have been evolving over these years and they continue to evolve as I am continuously honing my skills and designs. I am continuously seeking new opportunities to develop my skills and learn new techniques in order to keep growing and evolving as an artist. Our daughters are still at school but in the afterschool time and evenings they are with us. Girls, like we done from our mothers, studied tailors experience from us and helps us a lot on small sewing, ironing and beading things. Girls love to help us and we Love them – looks like 4rd generation dressmakers will be in our family! My desire is to be able to continuously bring new and fresh dress designs to our customers. I love the idea of being able to give birth to a design in my mind and then being able to choose and art full collect with an emphasis on unique ornaments, patterns, romantic, bohemian and psychedelic of 1930s and 1950s vintage beautiful Laces and Flower appliqués as well Pearls, Crystals, Beads, Sequins and other elements that will give life to brightly shining and embellished the dress. Especially in Lace or Flower applique Vintage style Wedding dresses - the miracle result is about beautiful Lace or Flower appliqué fabric, smart and sophisticated detail and their combination. I have fun every time choosing new Lace or fabric as of the feeling that each print, ornament or detail on fabric has its own secret story. :))) Then by using my skills, talents and creativity I am able to create beautiful, elegant pieces of Vintage style. These pieces are a result of our combined enjoyment of handmade work. All of the handmade beaded or embroidered items are hand stitched and using beautiful Laces or Flower applique and Crystal Sequins, Pearls and Beads. My passion is to make you look beautiful and feel beautiful and I achieve this by designing and showcasing unique, fashion Lace or Flower applique Vintage Wedding and Bridesmaid dresses. My inspiration flows from every beautiful thing! It’s my pleasure to present new fashion items to you! Everything is made with love and special for you! My husband occasionally helps us out where he can in practical ways like on production duty, production management and Sewing Shop management, he helps me deal with customer orders and Customer correspondent, he is good on computer things and Photoshop (all pictures of dresses is made by him), he works with the photographer and he helps me to run my shop. We surround ourselves with things of Beauty...
Whether it be people, dresses, or our homes we want it to reflect the beauty we see in the world! Please enjoy shopping here for one of kind handmade items in various styles, fabrics and colors to fit you on your special day! Please feel free to contact me if you have any dress needs. Thank you for visiting my page! With Love,
Mary Jin Mei
