The tailors were here before the gowns were. The business opened at 313 West Bridge Street in 2015 doing alterations and renting tuxedos, added bespoke suit tailoring in 2016, took on wedding-dress alterations in 2017, and only put prom, homecoming and mother’s dresses on the racks in 2022. That order still shapes the shop. The people who take in a bodice and shorten a hem work in the same building where the dress was bought, standard turnaround is about ten days, and they will alter a gown, suit or tuxedo purchased somewhere else. Alteration cost is billed separately from the dress.
What is in stock
Five prom and evening labels are confirmed through the designers’ own retailer lists: Alyce Paris, Jessica Angel, Jovani, Terani and Tiffany Designs. In-store prom sizes run 00 to 20, with additional sizes available by special order. Every dress can leave the same day off the rack or be ordered in a different color or size — roughly a week if the style is in stock, one to two months if it is not. Special orders are final: no refunds, exchanges or returns. Payment plans are available on in-store purchases.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Dresses, low to high end of the floor | $130 to $1,500 |
| Homecoming dresses | $200 to $800 |
| Eight-piece tuxedo or suit rental | $149 to $209 |
| Off-the-rack suits and tuxedos | From $99 |
| Custom suits and tuxedos | From $599, about four weeks |
Those two columns are the practical argument for coming here: a couple can settle a dress, a rental tux and the fittings for both in one shop, on one street, with one phone number.
Working backward from the date
A special-order gown takes two to three months to arrive, and the store asks for two to three weeks before the event to do the alterations. For a prom in early May, that means shopping in January or February, not March. Rush alteration work exists but is treated as an exception, not a plan.
Hours, and the appointment question
The shop is closed Monday and Tuesday. It is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., which puts most of the week’s traffic into four days. Appointments are not required and walk-ins are taken, but the store is direct about the trade-off: on a weekend it cannot promise an open fitting room. Booking is free, cancelling is free, and an appointment runs an hour with one consultant.
The block it sits on
West Bridge Street is Route 161 through Historic Dublin, and 313 is just west of the High Street corner, in the oldest part of a suburb that spreads across three counties in central Ohio. Longtime Dublin shoppers may remember the address as Elegant Bride, which occupied the storefront before closing. Parking downtown is free and plentiful by suburban standards: the library garage off North High Street holds 550 public spaces, and the Town Center lot off South High Street is free with a three-hour limit on most spots. From there the Dublin Link footbridge crosses the Scioto to Bridge Park, so a dress appointment and dinner are the same trip.
Whose prom this is
All three Dublin City Schools high schools sit within a few miles of the door — Coffman on Coffman Road, Scioto on Hard Road, and Jerome out on Hyland-Croy Road at the district’s northwest edge — and the district reaches west toward Plain City. The scale is not small: Coffman’s stadium seats 8,500, and Scioto’s and Jerome’s hold 5,000 each.
One thing worth knowing before the drive: the sister store, Dublin Bridal, is not at this address. Wedding gowns are on West Dublin-Granville Road near Sawmill, under a different phone number. Bridge Street is prom, homecoming, mothers’ dresses, tuxedos and the tailoring room.