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 Uptight was lucky enough to be featured in 'Outrageous Bride'   Magazine, covering Uptights return, after a few years of due to personal reasons, then Covid, along side Uptights close friend and colleague, Bex of Bexbrides, Boohoo glam wedding dresses.
'The recovery tour....'       How do you bring back to life two independent  bridal businesses       after 18 months of COVID hell and the breakdowns that       followed...?        Two established independent  alternative bridal designers, Bex of       Bexbrides and Janice of Uptight Clothing, both took a massive hit  during the past 18 months, Bexbrides, a vintage, Boohoo designer  from the north, suffered from  the Covid closures to the point of  melt down, after her 100 plus brides a year were all postponed,  was forced to close for 34 weeks, the despair and distress of the  emotional and financial losses taking its toll.       Janice of Uptight clothing, a couture corset wedding dress maker  of the south, started lock down already on an  Uptight       sabbatical,  after a personal journey of ill health...the NHS  scandal, the Infected Blood inquiry, being born with Hepatitis C ,       the treatment and its caused infertility and recovery... followed   by lock down gain and loss of their adopted daughter,  then her       husband coming out as transgender...you literally  could not make   this up...       So two alternative bridal designers, best of friends,  unable to   see each other for over 18 months, on their knees,  dealing with  personal trauma and covid lock down, how do you get back up from  all that??? How do you get your mojo back???       If you are Bex,  you start a support group for Bridal shops and  designers to fight for the grants we were entitled to as close  contact but didn't get and end up being asked to speak on behalf  of your industry at a All Party Political if zoom meeting with the   relevant Ministers and causing her hair to fall out!
If you are Janice You loose your shit, hit  rock bottom...buy a caravan in Dorset...and spend a few months   immersed with the love of friends you haven't been able to see         for over a year, dressing up, getting up and sunrise         shooting...eating good food, swimming in the sea, bring each   other back to life with fun and laughter and the precious  company of friends, women who raise each other up, support each   other, helping each other come back to life, mojos         rising...resurrecting  each others passion for our bridal   businesses, that got lost somewhere along the ride that was the  past few years.         Bex,  finally got chance to come down and be one of those   precious friends,  who came to Dorset to heal with  Janice and   her magic frocks! They had a ball, modelling each others gowns  and photographing them on the beaches of the stunning Jurassic  coast,  becoming a renowned sight on the Charmouth beach at         sunset. They spent the evenings catching the last of the evening   light for the photo shoots, changing in the car park...then post  shoot, having a invigorating  swimming in the autumn sea, still  warm from the summer sun. Followed by a night of home cooked   food and gin, our favourite  album on repeat, LP 'lost on you',   their now comeback anthem!

When life and all it entails...loss, lock   down and Covid, there's  nothing more empowering than women, who  come together,  joining forces, their shared passion for the  creative work they both love, and the love of each other.         Getting each other inspired again, bouncing off each other,  encouraging, supporting,  that's what women in business  should  do more off, as when we life each other up, rather than pulling   each other down. We all win.         So how do you get back up after falling so far down...?         Surround yourself with friends with the same passions,  feed   each others bodies and souls...ignite each others fires, and  blaze like bright souls you know you always were.         That's how you bring back to life two bridal businesses,  two  friends from the brink.         A caravan, in Dorset, in a corset, with gin, ice cream, and a  whole heap of love and laughter.

It's been a tough few years for independent  bridal designers Bex of Bexbrides and Janice of Uptight         clothing,  but with their renewed vigour and energy, new  alternative bridal designs for 2022/3 are bursting out of Bex's  and Uptight's heads quicker than they can make them....there so   much catching up to do after the wedding void that was 20/21....         Both now re inspired and ready to go again now the wedding   industry  also claw it's way back out of that void  too...2022-23...for weddings...especially  alternative ones  ...is looking really exciting!         Check out their new ranges now here...beach and ruined shoots,         and in more detail on insta..fb..'    https://www.outrageousbride.com/
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