I'm barrel.

And this week's around the world, topic is a little bit different.

Surprisingly, the topic is not food related.

This week, we're looking at wedding dresses.

Many Storytime I got married four years ago, my husband is from a city in northern India.

So when we got married, we had two weddings, one in the United States and one in India.

The indian wedding was just crazy.

It was so much fun.

I experienced so many things that I had never known about.

The biggest one for me though was what I wore.

It was my wedding dress I had never seen or worn anything like that in my entire life and I absolutely loved it.

But that was the impetus for this episode.

I know that a lot of women wear the white western style gown on their wedding day, but that is not the default around the world.

Wedding dresses very greatly from country to country.

So for this episode, I spoke to seven dressmakers in seven countries to see the different types of wedding dresses around the world.

So this is the wedding dress episode.

First up address full of color from Indonesia.

Indonesia.

Next a dressmaker from Northern England.

If I ever told you what a dress cost, I would be killed.

My name is Thelma Madine.

I am a wedding dress designer, mainly for the traveling community.

I've been making wedding dresses for the last 30 years.

My mother's a dressmaker and all my family are into some sort of tailoring or dressmaking.

Any girl's wedding day is important and the dress is important, but in the traveling community, the wedding dresses.

Something that's dreamed about from when they're like 34 years old.

They start drawing their wedding dress when they're that young and that's how important it is to them to have the perfect dress for the perfect day.

They want to look like a princess.

They want everyone to gasp when they walk down the aisle.

The dresses have got to be wise, they've got to be white.

But what they put on the dress, the decoration is loads of Swarovski crystal pails and things like that.

So they like it.

Blinged up.

They want to stand out A typical dress.

You're looking at least 5000 crystals on it.

Usually more and fabrics, you're looking like 40, 50 m.

We and poor fabrics from all over the world.

And it's always the best duchess satin silks, satins and man made fibers so they can be really white.

The time for us to make all the decoration and all the under structure is approximately 300 hours.

I think the thing I like most about making these dresses is waiting for the customers reaction.

When they see it, we do a big reveal your sort of holding your breath until they've seen it and you see the relief in their face and when they're really happy with it.

And it's like a sigh of relief, wow!

Yeah, they love it.

Mhm.

Next up a dressmaker and better from the Cheyenne tribe in Oklahoma.

Mhm.

To my Ponca people, I am changing my given name is Kenneth taylor.

I am an enrolled member of the Ponca nation of Oklahoma.

I also represent the Cheyenne, the pawnee and the Southern Ute.

I am an artist.

My main focus is beating.

Every tribe has a different style of dress.

So these are southern Cheyenne buckskin dresses.

She undresses traditionally have the strips on them and on the skirt they have curves and those represent the mountains.

We also have the cones.

They are to scare away bad spirits creating buckskin dresses are extremely hard but it's also really exciting to, we use out kyd deer hide.

It's usually white as white as you can get it.

They can be colorful depending on the type of beads you use.

They usually consist of the four colors, red, yellow, white and black.

They represent the different peoples of the world.

Buckskin dresses could easily go up to $10,000 depending on how much work and how intricate the beadwork is my favorite part about making the dress would probably be actually the last stitch, bringing it all together at the end of the day.

What I love the most is seeing my creation being worn and being cherished.

I think it is a sense that you can go back into the past that that just gives them a sense of pride knowing that they are representing their tribe in a good way and that that they get to wear their traditional clothing on their special day.

Just that's what I like the most is seeing my work being loved.

Next up a dress made with gold from Tunisia.

Let's just do just do it with that frozen Ben uh from India, a dressmaker and the same style of dress that I wore on my wedding day.

My name is Karen to Ronnie.

I'm a designer.

I feel like indian fashion in general completely revolves around weddings.

What happens in India is that we have these beautiful different kind of cultures coming together.

Everybody follows a different tradition, but we have this language family which centers the universe of indian bridal wear.

It's an extension of indian where from the olden eras, we have a typical Jolie which kind of looks like a crop top and paired with the skirt but probably with a lot more flowers.

And the entire outfit is eventually paired with a loose fabric which girl wears on her body sometimes over the head like a whale as per the bride's needs boundary is one of the main focus fabrics which is hand woven and it's a mix of cotton and silk embroidery stars takes months and months and months when it comes to switching and really elaborate wedding outfit would probably take easily three kg of just simple cetera zor beats which just get all over the outfit in India were known about our craftsmanship, the embroideries the finesse.

Of course it is a high pressure job.

I want that right to literally beam with an infectious joy that makes everybody around her being from Ghana to Kentucky dressmaker.

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And finally in Sweden we spoke to a traditional folk dressmaker.

My name is Fiamma callus Lynn bloom.

I'm an embroider.

I do a lot of crafts and folk costume as well.

The wedding dress in the Swedish culture is important.

It's meant to signal festivity.

The name of this dress is manga dress.

Vonda is a small parish outside of north shopping in Sweden.

It's a black silk taffeta dress to decorate the dress which use white or gold glaze and glass beads and pearls and also make small flowers out of paper or fabric scraps.

I have a favorite part of this gown at the bottom of the skirt.

There's a check pattern.

I think it's adorable and under this dress there will be three layers of wool skirts to make the dress stand out like a bell.

One of the most important elements is the crown.

It's big and heavy.

It's from a virgin mary is something almost a bit royal about a girl who wears the crown.

Today.

We see more people wearing for costume and for wedding dresses.

I think mostly in the countryside where the cultural heritage is a bit stronger.

This is one way of preserving but also developing the cultural heritage of Sweden.

Mhm.

I really loved making this episode.

I loved seeing all of the different dresses, how they are adorned.

How beautiful they all were.

It was such a cool thing to do.

Mhm And while the dresses obviously were really different, there was this through line of the dressmakers.

Obviously they're all very skilled at their craft.

But when I asked them what the most important thing about their job was, they all said the same thing made me feel really good to hear.

I hope they feel comfortable, happy, joyful.

And the prettiest they've ever been.

I hope she wears it proudly.

And that they feel the most prettiest in this because they are representing their tribe and their culture and so it makes them feel special and it gives them honor that they are wearing that particular style of dress a kid and for that day she's Cinderella for the day and that's what the ones they are special.

They've waited for this day for Since they were like three or 4 years old.

So the most important day of their life is this day a bride celebrates not just her wedding, her outfit but the entire process of this journey her own way.

There's a lot of emotional pressure.

A lot of societal pressure of what the right thing to do is the idea is to you do it your way and just celebrate it.