11.   Before they could make a dress, they had to raise the sheep.

12.   All antique christening dresses were made by hand from linens, silks or fine cottons.

13.   Carla Wescott is part of the design team of Westcott and Finasci, who make streamlined dresses, often in black.

14.   Dresses are usually made in assembly-line fashion, like ready-to-wear clothes.

15.   He also made dresses divided into two colors, or two shades of one color, by a seam down the center.

16.   Having Mom make her dress saved money.

17.   His father, Alfred George Carman, ran a furniture shop while his mother, Evelyn, made dresses.

18.   In one scene, Lopez insisted that a Grecian peplum dress be made with an open front.

19.   In other cases, shop owners simply refuse to tell brides who made the dresses, even when the brides ask.

20.   It was an incredible thrill, she says, when first lady Laura Bush called and asked her to make dresses for the twins.