The Legend of the Modest Bodice

So this is another story from my store that after lengthy discussion was deemed to be blog-worthy.
So our specialty is creating heirloom quality garments using couture techniques and offering them to brides at retail prices. We're basically selling one of a kind $3K gowns for $1500 or less. We use almost exclusively silk fabrics from really high-end wholesalers and we're pretty proud of how the final products come out.
Well, occasionally we take on alteration projects just to fill in the empty spaces in our production calendar and we had a bride come in right after La Caille requesting exactly that. Jessica won one of the veils we had distributed as prizes at the bridal show and she wanted to pick it up. We asked her what her dress status was and she informed us that she had found her "dream" dress at David's Bridal. That should have been the first clue.
Then she informed us that the dress was strapless but she wanted sleeves added on. For those of you who don't know much about sewing and Utah, brides here have a terrible time finding dresses that cover their arms, chests, and backs which they can wear to a temple wedding. They have to be modest, which most of the time means they are terribly ugly. Check out http://www.eternitygowns.com/ or http://www.modestbydesign.com/ to see what I'm talking about.
Anyway, many brides fall in to the trap of purchasing "immodest" dresses because of their low prices and then butcher them by tacking on sleeves. This dress was one of those. That should have been our second clue.
Jenny was hesitant to take on the project because no matter which way you go about doing it, adding sleeves to a sleeveless dress is a recipe for disaster.
The final piece of the puzzle arrived in our workshop on Monday when Jessica dropped of her "dream" dress to be altered. Upon inspection of the dress, we discovered that it had been incorrectly assembled and that the lining material that should have been on the inside of the skirt was on the outside, and that the duchesse satin that should have made up the skirt was on the inside. So the bride purchased a dirty dress (all David's Bridal dresses end up dirty from being handled so much) with an inside out skirt and is adding sleeves to a sleeveless top.
Ahh... Utah fashion at its finest. Please not that the skirt is a different color and texture from the top of the dress. That's because it's lining. I also noticed that while taking pictures of this dress that one of the points on the skirt (where it's pulled up into gathers) has been either pulled out or was not stitched, so that the skirt sags on the side. Hmm.... Classy, huh? In the bride's defense, however, there is some nice corset-style lace appliquéd on there. I guess.