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Ask ten women for a green dress and you will get ten different greens. One means sage, the soft grey-green of eucalyptus leaves. Another means emerald, deep and clear, or olive, which is nearly a neutral. The ten designs on this page cover that whole range with greens we have actually drawn or photographed: the Tiered Maxi in Sage Green, a sage frock with white embroidery, a gown printed with flowers on sage, an emerald shirt dress and an emerald anarkali, a forest green maxi, and frocks in olive, mint, teal and bottle green. Every one is made to order in Pakistan, in a size from S to XL or to your own measurements, and delivered to your door wherever you live. Sleeves, hem and neckline are settled in writing before the cloth is cut.
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The Gilded Seam makes green dresses to order in Pakistan, in sage, emerald, olive, mint, teal, forest and bottle green, from a knee-length day frock to floor-length gowns. Each is cut in a size from S to XL or to the measurements you send, with the sleeves and hem changed on request. Making takes 5 to 7 working days once the quote is approved and paid in full.
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Each design is made to order in your size or to your measurements. The pictures are design previews made before sewing, so the finished piece is confirmed in your written quote.
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A floor-length chiffon maxi with a split band collar, full balloon sleeves gathered at the cuff, and three soft tiers. In seven colours.
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A long-sleeved floral gown in sage and rose, with an embroidered lattice panel down the front, embroidered cuffs and waistband, and sheer pale blue panels that fall from the shoulders like a cape.
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A sage green day frock with white chikankari across the yoke and sleeve hems, a button front and an easy, relaxed shape to the knee.
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An emerald green anarkali-style frock with a round neck and long sleeves, a floral embroidered bodice and a full flared skirt with scattered motifs and a deep border.
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A long shirt dress with a pointed collar, a full button front, roll-up sleeves held with a tab, and side slits. In five colours.
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A fitted maxi dress with a round neck and long sleeves, shaped by curved seams from the shoulders to the hips, then flaring gently to the ankle. In six colours.
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An olive green frock worked all over the bodice and down the front with bronze threadwork, with a sweetheart neckline and short puff sleeves.
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A mint cotton frock with a square neck, a short button front, lace-trimmed puff sleeves and a deep lace border at the hem.
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A teal chiffon frock on fine straps, with gota patti edging the V-neck and a gold gota border at the hem of a long, layered skirt.
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A bottle green frock with red resham embroidery across the yoke and sleeves, elbow sleeves and a flared midi skirt.
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Green names get used loosely in shops, and a dress sold as sage can arrive looking mint. On this page each name means the shade the design is drawn or photographed in, so you can see what you are choosing before you order. Sage, mint or pista green and bottle green, emerald or forest green put the closest shades side by side. From the palest to the darkest:
Frocks are made in the colour they are drawn in, so the sage, olive, mint, teal and bottle green frocks arrive as pictured, and the Tiered Maxi comes in its seven listed colours; its page and the seamed maxi’s open on another colour first, so pick Sage Green or Forest green from the swatches before you add your measurements. For another green, say a hunter green, a pistachio or a true grass green, two designs give you room. The seamed maxi can be cut in a colour outside its six, and the Emerald Rose Anarkali, like the other modern embroidered dresses, can be made on another base colour with the thread colour changed to suit, so an emerald dress becomes a sage or an olive one. The cape gown can be made in another print or on a plain base. Describe the green in the changes box, add a photo if you have one, and the shade is written into your quote before cutting.
Treat this as a starting point rather than a rule. Warm and golden undertones usually look well in the greens with yellow in them: olive, sage, moss and bottle green. Cool and pink undertones tend to suit the blue-based greens, emerald, teal and mint. Deep skin carries emerald and bottle green with real strength, while very fair skin often finds sage and forest green kinder near the face than a bright emerald. South Asian skin, mostly warm or olive toned, is lucky with green and wears nearly all of them. How to find your skin undertone has a two-minute test and colours for an olive undertone goes further.
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Five of the ten reach the ankle or the floor. The Tiered Maxi in Sage Green falls from a gathered yoke into three tiers of chiffon, with balloon sleeves caught at the wrist. The seamed maxi in forest green is its opposite: no gathers at all, just curved seams that follow the body to the hips before the skirt opens out to the ankle. The Emerald Rose Anarkali has a fitted, embroidered bodice and a skirt that spreads wide to the floor, the cape gown adds sheer pale blue panels that float from the shoulders over a full skirt, and the teal frock drops two light layers of chiffon to the ankle from a V-neck on fine straps. Our maxi dresses page has more long shapes in other colours.
The rest sit between the knee and the calf. The olive frock has a straight midi skirt under its embroidered bodice, the mint frock is gathered at the waist and falls to mid-calf, the bottle green frock flares to mid-calf from a fitted waist, and the shirt dress is cut long, to the calf, with a slit at each side. Only the sage frock stops at the knee. Every hem is cut to your number, so measure your length in the shoes you will wear; knee and midi lengths in inches helps you decide where to stop, and midi dresses shows more at that length.
For a black tie dinner, an awards night or a wedding reception, the Emerald Rose Anarkali is the nearest thing here to a classic green gown, embroidered from the neckline to the cuffs with a deep border at the hem, and the cape gown is the one for an entrance, since its sheer panels move every time you do. For something plainer, the seamed maxi in forest green relies on its cut alone, and the teal frock, with sleeves added and the neckline raised, becomes a long green formal dress that is easy to dance in. Evening dresses has more floor-length shapes.
If you are after a short green dress, know that we draw nothing above the knee. The sage frock is the shortest design here, a knee-length day dress with short sleeves and a button front, and the mint frock, like any frock, can be cut up to the knee. For a green sundress those two are the obvious pair: light colours, short sleeves, easy shapes, and either can be made sleeveless. For a hem above the knee, ask in your quote request and we will tell you plainly whether that design works shorter.
Five designs have long sleeves as drawn: the shirt dress, with sleeves that roll up and fasten with a tab; the seamed maxi, slim to the wrist; the Tiered Maxi, with balloon sleeves gathered into a cuff; and the anarkali and the cape gown, both finished with embroidered cuffs. The bottle green frock stops at the elbow, the olive, mint and sage frocks have short sleeves, and the teal frock is drawn without any, though short, elbow, three-quarter or full sleeves can be added to it. Any sleeve can be lengthened or shortened, and any dress made sleeveless, confirmed in your quote. Long sleeve dresses covers measuring for a long sleeve.
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Green is one of the safest colours a wedding guest can wear. It never competes with white or ivory, it photographs well against gardens and old walls, and it suits every season: sage and mint in spring and summer, olive in autumn, emerald and bottle green in winter. For a daytime wedding try the cape gown or the Tiered Maxi in Sage Green; for an evening reception the Emerald Rose Anarkali or the bottle green frock. Our wedding guest dresses page has more, and winter wedding guest dresses deals with cold churches and December dates.
At a Pakistani or Indian wedding, green belongs to the mehndi above all. Guests wear it in every shade that night, from parrot green to bottle green, so the sage frock, the olive frock and the emerald anarkali all have a place there, and the shirt dress works for a daytime dholki. What colour is mehndi green? and mehndi guest outfit ideas go event by event.
Sage suits bridesmaids because it sits beside white flowers and greenery without competing, and it is a green we can make with no colour change. The Tiered Maxi in Sage Green needs no alteration at all, and because every dress is cut for its own wearer, five bridesmaids of five different heights can wear the same design with every hem clearing the floor. Put the cape gown on the maid of honour and the others in the plain tiers, or ask for sage on the seamed maxi so the group has two shapes in one colour; for a darker line-up, run the olive frock, the forest green seamed maxi and the anarkali together. Bridesmaid dresses explains how a whole group goes on one quote.
Green is a Christmas colour, and the deep ones look right by candlelight. The bottle green frock, with red embroidery over the yoke and sleeves, is Christmas in a single dress; the Emerald Rose Anarkali suits a Christmas Eve dinner; and the forest green seamed maxi, with long slim sleeves, is the one for an office party where you will be on your feet all night. Order early: making takes 5 to 7 working days after the quote is approved and paid in full, and the parcel still has to travel, so ask us about timing for your country before you count on a date. Christmas dresses has more, and how to wear a maxi dress in winter covers layers and boots.
Green is the colour of Eid for many families: the emerald anarkali and the olive and bottle green frocks suit Eid lunch and visiting, the sage frock a quieter Eid morning. Pakistan’s flag is green and white, so a green dress with white work, the sage frock above all, is ready for 14 August; green and white outfit ideas has more. See our Eid outfits for the rest of the day, and the green abayas, drawn in olive and deep teal, for an abaya in the same family of colours.
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Green behaves like a neutral, which makes it easier to style than most people expect. Gold sits naturally on emerald, olive and bottle green and picks up the gold work on the anarkali and the bronze on the olive frock; silver and pearls look cleaner against sage, mint and teal. Nude or tan shoes lengthen the leg under a midi, black sharpens the dark greens, and a camel, cream or black coat goes over every green here.
With other colours, think in pairs: sage with cream, blush, terracotta and soft gold (what colours go with sage); emerald with navy, black, gold and a little pink, which is why the anarkali carries pink flowers (what colours go with emerald green); olive with camel, rust, cream and chocolate brown (what colours go with olive). Let the green lead and keep the second colour small.
Green is a hard colour to judge from a photo. A phone screen pushes sage towards grey or mint and makes bottle green look black, and most pictures here are design previews made before any cloth is cut. If the exact shade matters, photograph something in your green, a scarf, a ribbon or a leaf, by a window in daylight, and attach it to your quote request saying whether the dress should match it or sit a touch lighter or darker. A small difference between a screen and the finished dress is normal, not a fault. How to describe a colour to a tailor gives you the words, and why fabric colours look different online explains the rest.
Name the design and the green you want, your size or your measurements marked as body or garment, the sleeve and hem you would like, and whether you want a lining, worth having under chiffon and the pale greens. The written quote that comes back covers the design, colour, measurements, total, delivery to your door and any import duty and taxes. Nothing is cut until you have approved it and paid in full; making then takes 5 to 7 working days, and shipping follows for as long as the journey to your country needs, with nothing extra to pay when the parcel arrives.
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Initials, a name or a monogram can be embroidered too: tell us the letters and where you would like them, and we confirm the size and thread in your quote.
Anything else you would like changed, ask in your quote request and we tell you honestly whether it can be done.
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Yes, in three ways without any colour change: the Tiered Maxi in Sage Green, one of its seven colours; the sage day frock with white embroidery across the yoke; and the cape gown, printed with flowers on a sage ground. The seamed maxi can also be cut in sage as a colour outside its six, and the Emerald Rose Anarkali can be made on a sage base, both agreed in your quote.
Sage is a soft green with grey in it, light and calm. Olive is deeper and warmer, with yellow and brown in it, close to a neutral. Emerald is a clear, bright green with a blue base, the most saturated of the three. Mint is paler than sage, teal has more blue in it, and forest and bottle green are darker than emerald.
Yes, two. The shirt dress is photographed in Emerald Green, with long sleeves that roll up and fasten with a tab, and the Emerald Rose Anarkali is drawn in deep emerald with long embroidered sleeves and a skirt to the floor. The seamed maxi comes in forest green with slim long sleeves, and can be asked for in emerald as a colour outside its six.
Yes. Green does not clash with white or ivory and is welcome at Western weddings in every season. At Pakistani and Indian weddings it is the classic mehndi colour. If the couple have dressed their bridesmaids in a particular green, choose a different shade or another colour so you do not look like part of the wedding party.
Making takes 5 to 7 working days from the day you approve your written quote and pay for it in full. Shipping comes after that and depends on your country. The quote already includes delivery and any import duty and taxes, so nothing more is due when the parcel arrives.
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