Samoan Wedding Dresses and Two Popular Fabrics
When a woman of any nationality becomes engaged, she often takes her time to find the right wedding dress. The same is true for Samoan brides of the Polynesian regions. They tend to take more time to find that dress that fits and highlights their body figure. Brides will take up to six months before the wedding to find the dress they want and have it tailored to fit their body figure.
If you choose to go with a Samoan wedding dress, there are things you need to keep in mind. They include: the bride’s body type, price and kind of wedding being held.
Samoan brides and Samoans’ wedding dress fabrics
When a Samoan bride is putting together her dress, she’ll often use a tapa cloth. Tapa cloth is made from mulberry bark. However, some Samoan brides will choose the siapo cloth, which is made from hardwood bark. Siapo fabric is vital to wedding ceremonies if the culture stresses the bride to design her wedding dress with this fabric.
Village chiefs and maidens will dress in the siapo cloth when giving gifts to the newly married bride and groom. During the teulia festival, Samoans will wear siapos and tapas fabrics. To get the Siapo fabrics, designers will cut and soak the hardwood tree bark in water. They do it until they become pulpy. Once it does, they lay the fabric on the ground and rub out the water, using a number of shells.
Once the water has been rubbed out of the fabric, it stays in the sunlight for about two hours. Afterwards, red clay is applied and rubbed in. The clay makes the fabric soft so it can be stitched together to design the wedding dress. Some modern wedding dresses have Samoan designs and/or patterns but are made from silk fabric.
Going Online to Get A Samoan Wedding Gown
If you are interested in obtaining a Samoan wedding dress, you’ll have to look to the Internet in your quest. You can purchase and/or rent one by blogging on websites that actually sell them and how you can purchase/rent one at a decent/fair price.
Once you have a list full of websites, visit each one to see which one offers the best dress for the best price. Be sure you get pictures of what the Samoan dress looks like. Don’t forget that you will need a current credit/debit card to purchase your wedding dress.
Most online stores do provide extra services including: transporting the dress to the buying customer. Other online stores will offer discounts to consumers who buy so many items from the website.
Picking Out Your Samoan Wedding Dress – What Color, What Pattern
Most Samoan wedding dresses have patterns. These patterns often make their dress prettier. If you are choosing a Samoan wedding dress, you have the selection of picking certain background colors for the dress. These colors are often: white, brown, cream and black. A conventional Samoan dress is colorful due to the barks that are used to design them. For instance, a white dress can have brown patterns bestowed upon it. Most siapo designers will decorate the wedding gown approximately two days before the ceremony is to commence.
