A bride is sharing how she altered her wedding dress the day before her ceremony after her tailor refused to accommodate her request, telling her that “straps are for old ladies.”
In a video originally posted on her TikTok back in June, the bride, Kayla Crome, who goes by @kaycrome on the platform, detailed how she took it upon herself to add straps to her wedding dress when her tailor refused, despite letting him know that the dress felt like it was falling down.
“He basically told me that this was how [the dress] was supposed to look and that it was not going to fall down,” Kayla says in a voiceover for the video as she shimmies, demonstrating the dress’ looseness. “I really felt like it was falling down.”
Kayla decided to add the straps herself using fabric the tailor had removed in a previous alteration session. She set to work with a basic sewing kit to construct the straps of her wedding dress.
“I am not a seamstress by any means,” Kayla says in the video over clips of herself cutting and pinning the excess fabric into the desired shape for her strap. “This was the biggest project I have ever tackled, and it felt insane to do it on my own wedding dress, but it had to be done.”
She walked viewers through the process of preparing the fabric scraps in the video — measuring, cutting, pinning and sewing them to fit her dress and body. Kayla opted to hand-sew the entire strap instead of using a sewing machine, which she said she chose not to film because it “took forever.”
Kayla, who got married six months ago, reposted the video on her TikTok again on Dec. 28, so it could be eligible for money from the Creator Fund. It has since garnered more than 725,000 views and nearly 85,000 likes.
In the comments of the video, people shared their disdain for the way Kayla’s tailor handled the situation, with one user — whose TikTok page appears to feature alteration and seamstress content — commenting that she “would never tell a client not to do have something done they want done, unless it would ruin the garment somehow. But you did a great job.”
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Many others also expressed their admiration for the way the dress finally turned out, with one person agreeing with Kayla’s original claim that the dress felt loose. They wrote, “The top of that dress had no support, it NEEDED the straps. You did a great job and they look good on the dress.”
Another commenter chimed in, “It looks so much better with the straps. More modern.”
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