ContenderWear & PBL are shipped with very specific care instructions.

HotMess Dance Apparel items can be washed under gentle setting or by hand with mild detergent (i.e. Zout, Woolite Gentle Cycle) and line dry.

Customer provided bases: follow mfr instructions.

All fabrics are washed before use. Items that are dyed may bleed.

Any of our brands: we recommend a steamer for smoothing the fabric rather than an iron, which may easily burn or leave marks/residue on the fabrics.

All Archerciser products are spot clean only.

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Yes, all our items are new, made from new fabrics, trims, & notions. We are a smoke-free environment.

The models of our apparel & costumes wear undergarments & panty-shields. Our products are NEW products, FREE of body fluids, buggers, BO, etc.

To date, all the fabrics that we have worked with have been washed prior to starting a project with them & after completion. The fabrics that we use are mostly procured from the Los Angeles Textile District, which means they are stored in warehouses and shops.

Upon washing the textiles, we can better determine the fabrics' or trims' suitability for specific needs.

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All custom orders for ContenderWear™, HMDA, PBL, and LiturgyWear™ require a non-refundable 50% deposit.

Once a design is created, we offer options as they arise. Notification is sent out when the garment is complete. Final payment is required within 30 days of the completion notice. If the item has not been paid for in full after the 30 days, the item will be be put up for sale to recoup the unpaid balance.

A custom order is where we create an item/items specifically to fill your specific order and needs. Please do not confuse this with items that are one-of-a-kind customs that are ready-made. Please note the difference of custom order vs. (ready-made) custom design.

See our ready-made layaway plan on our Web site.

For orders over$50, the parcel is insured & signature is required.

Upon delivery attempt, USPS will leave notification: please go on-line and reschedule delivery when you will be there. Address must be the same as your Etsy purchase/account.

USPS will hold your item for 14 days (10 working days) from their initial attempt to deliver before returning the item(s) to us.

Returned, Unopened Orders: Please contact us to issue a new postage item in our Etsy Store "ContenderWear". Once you pay for this, the parcel will be reshipped.

If you do not accept your shipment, you will be responsible for shipping, insurance, and a 20% restocking fee, excluding custom products made specifically for you to fill your order, as they are nonrefundable.

We offer 4 brands.

Swarovski® and Preciosa® crystals' cut is great and has superb brilliance.
We have worked with both Swarovski® and Preciosa® brands of Rhinestones extensively and use them for our ContenderWear™ brand. Both brands have developed their high quality crystals virtually lead free, making them safer for our customers.

ContenderWear Brand now offered, also a high-end stone, similar to Preciosa pricing & quality. Made in Austria.

LSC Brand Rhinestones are a superb option for our budget friendly brand PBL.

When we say it is Swarovski® it is Swarovski®; when we say it's Preciosa® it is.

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-If we have all supplies to create your custom costume, your costume could be completed in 1-3 days, provided that we do not have orders scheduled ahead of yours.
-If we have to procure items for your custom costume, the time frame to create your product will increase, depending on both availability of products, and/or if we have to visit the LA Textile District to obtain it. Delay of items would if they are back ordered, to be shipped to us.
Costumes can take up to 5 days or more to reach you if you are in the continental US, and add two weeks minimum for fittings' travel time. International ships USPS priority allow 4-6 weeks shipping time during Covid-19.

Allow additional time while we are in the Covid-19 Pandemic.

For HotMess Dance Apparel™ Shorts, we have made many of the booty shorts on a regular basis. If we have your size pattern, it would cost the usual, which is between usually $23-$30 for each pair. Depending upon the quantity ordered, we may discount that for you.

If we have to make a pattern for your size, add $21 to the order.

Once we have your order and provided we have the fabrics and colors that you want, we could have 10 pair ready within that first day.

Just a note on fabric and colors available: If specific fabrics and colors are needed that we must procure, additional fees would go into the cost of the final goods, but chances are good that we have colors that you would like.

Yes, all ContenderWear™ costumes are made from the fabric bolt to stage ready, NOT farming out the work. We want consistency in our products, and we find that contracting out parts of the process would not meet our high standards all the time. We prefer RS & designer closures & try to avoid clear plastic hooks.

HotMess Dance Apparel™: We sometimes work with customer provided parts and embellishments.  These types of items would be dependent upon the customers' standards, and we would only be setting the application standard.

Plain Brown Label™: With PBL, we sometimes purchase national brand bases, where we know the quality to have good consistency (i.e. Body Wrappers®, Balera®, Etc.)
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Plain Brown Label™ (PBL) is a brand that we came up with for inexpensive costuming, usually under $400 and can be either custom or "semi-custom."

Semi-customs get custom additions to National factory name-brand (i.e. Body Wrappers®, Balera®, Etc.) items such as leos, crop tops, shorts, and briefs. These custom additions are any one or more of the following:
- appliques
-rhinestones
-metal
-pearls
-lace or trim
-skirt
-sash

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LiturgyWear™ was developed as a response to the many inquiries we get, specifically around Christian Holidays such has Christmas, Easter, etc. The Praise Dancers require skirts, leotards, etc. for their praise dance worship. These garments are usually a solid color and without any rhinestones.

NuptialWear™ is everything for the wedding that needs to be altered, rhinestoned, and so on. NuptialWear is mostly semi-custom, meaning customized alterations and additions on existing product. The garments that we make under the NuptialWear Label, i.e. dresses, lingerie, etc., are very sleek and made of 4-way stretch.