Prom Dress Stores in Minnesota

The metro's ceiling is 24. Bride and Jewel's stylists skip the tape measure and judge size by how a designer's other gowns sit on you, which only works when the right size is hanging in the suite. Raffiné posts its own warning: stock and ordering options shrink after mid-March, so a hard-to-find size is a January errand in Woodbury. Rubi Jubi publishes prices but no size range. Ask before booking the hour.

Byron is where floor and order part ways. The store keeps 1,000 to 1,200 gowns in stock from late December through March, but its floor stops at 24. Sizes above that, up to 34 depending on the designer, have to be ordered. A style not yet in production can take up to four months. Gowns aren't held, either. So a shopper in a 30 can buy here, but she should arrive soon after the December 26 opening and expect a measurement and a designer order rather than a try-on in her size.

Neither northern shop publishes a size range, and both lean on ordering. Formalities says plainly that it carries select pieces from each designer, mostly sold off the rack. A size it lacks usually comes in two to four weeks. Silver Rose turns that around: most styles it orders arrive in three to four days. That speed matters this far from the bigger racks.