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It’s Time to Order Costumes!!!
And we’re not talking about Halloween…view your costume online
FIRST DEADLINE - OCTOBER 13TH - SAVE $5
PER COSTUME BY ORDERING BEFORE OCTOBER 13TH.
Your dance instructors will measure
your dancers in class and provide you with the information you need
to order your costume. Measurements occur the week of October
1-7. (Note: Pleasanton dancers will be measured starting Tuesday,
October 2nd).
There’s an old
saying that goes something like this: Prior Proper Planning
Prevents Poor Performance. It’s something we live by here at
Tiffany’s Dance Academy. The reason - we know we have the ultimate
public final exam at the end of the year. The quality of our
instructors and their ability to teach will be on display for all to
see at the annual recital in June.
Part of this exam
concerns the costumes that each dancer will wear on stage. Part of
our final exam is actually delivering costumes to each and every
dancer on time and in great condition. We are at the mercy of
costume houses, folks. Costume houses are manufacturers of costumes
and they publish their catalogs in early September and ship them to
every dance studio in the country. We’ve learned from experience
that only a handful of these companies manufacture costumes that are
up to our standards.
We also live by
another saying here at TDA. “It pays to be a winner!” Why?
Because, think about this…if there are only a handful of decent
costume companies in the United States servicing every single dance
studio in the country, then who has the best chance of actually
receiving their costumes on time? The studios who order first, of
course! Consider this: costume houses don’t order their fabric
until the orders have been received from the dance studios. This
risky business means that costume houses can run out of a particular
fabric before manufacturing all of the costumes they’ve taken orders
for. This is bad for them, bad for us, and bad for you. It happens
all the time.
To avoid this
problem, we are one of the first studios in the country to order
costumes…virtually guaranteeing on-time delivery and all but
eliminating the risk of a fabric shortage. We do this by allowing
our customers to order their costumes on our website which saves our
customers time and money (5% discount for online orders), and helps
our administrative staff accurately track exactly what needs to be
ordered and when in order to receive everything on time.
You might not
think of costuming for dance studios as a race, but we sure do. We
know that our success depends on this incredibly important,
seemingly simple task. Do us a favor and place your orders as soon
as you can. You’ll be glad you did when your dancer receives her /
his costume in class, on time, in great condition, and with no
hassles!
You can
view your costume online,
but make sure your dancer has been measured in class by TDA Staff
before you select a size!
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