by Anon. on Sun Sep 15, 2002 3:28 pm
New gowns are £100 from BESS. You go there, get yourself measured, and then wait until Ede & Ravenscroft have made them.
The principal differences between new gowns and old gowns are that new gowns are not too short, and old gowns have usually gone all bobbly. I have had mine a year and it is starting to go - I dread to think what it will look like by the time I finish.
I suppose the extravagant answer is to get a new gown every year, or to go to Ede & Ravenscroft (off George Street in Edinburgh) personally and get them to make you a bespoke gown in some different fabric. But seeing as hardly anybody except choir members, debaters and Americans ever wear their gowns anyway, I doubt if the outlay would be justifiable.