A Lorraine Formal Wear

A Lorraine Formal Wear gives alterations a section of their own on its homepage, and the wording leaves little doubt about who does the work.

We do alterations on both in-house purchases as well as outside items. We reserve the right to choose which outside alterations we accept.

For a prom shopper in Boone County, that means the gown bought on North Main Street can be hemmed and adjusted in the same shop, without a second search for a seamstress. The store's own banner announces that Prom 2026 is in, with new styles added daily, and prom is the first department in its menu.

The prom racks on North Main

A Lorraine's online catalog runs to well over a hundred prom and formal styles, with prices reaching just under $1,000. The labels named on the site include:

• Ladivine by Cinderella Divine, featured on the homepage under the brands the store carries, with its prom and evening lookbook
• Ava Presley formal and prom gowns
• Amelia Couture
• Abby Lane, Abby Paris and Lucci Lu, each with a lookbook on the site
• Gowns sold under the A Lorraine Formal Wear name

Homecoming and cocktail dresses have their own department on North Main.

• Pageant

  A department of its own, so a girl who competes in local pageants can shop both seasons with the same staff

• Alterations

  Women's bridal and formal wear, casual clothing, men's apparel and business apparel, under the heading "Your perfect size"

• Custom creations

  Mentioned on the alterations page, with an invitation to ask

The sewing room, in other words, is not limited to gowns. In prom terms, a dress can be bought a little long or a little loose and brought to the right fit before the dance, by people who saw it on the shopper in the first place. The online catalog is a good place to narrow choices before a visit, since each listing shows the label and price, and the shop's search page lets a family browse by department from home.

Hours, tuxes and the trip into Harrison

The shop keeps short afternoon hours midweek and a Saturday morning window, with Monday and Tuesday reserved for appointments. If the posted hours do not fit a family's schedule, the store says to contact it for an appointment, which matters for anyone coming in from Valley Springs, Bergman or the smaller Boone County towns after school.

Bridesmaid and bridal gowns round out the store, and wedding shoppers are asked to request an appointment, but the prom season is where the North Main shop focuses its homepage.

Harrison is the county seat and the main shopping town for this part of the Arkansas Ozarks, and Harrison High School is the largest high school in Boone County. With Little Rock and the Northwest Arkansas cities a long drive away, a store that sells the gown, fits it and handles the tux keeps the whole prom errand in town.

A Lorraine Formal Wear, at a glance

Will A Lorraine alter a dress bought somewhere else?

It may. The store takes outside alteration work but decides case by case which items it accepts, so bring the dress in and ask.

Is there anything for pageant contestants?

A full pageant department sits next to the prom, homecoming and cocktail collections in the shop's lineup.