Coco Myles Online Custom Dresses; Web based retailer lets you design your dream dress.

NEW YORK -- Online retailer Coco Myles is giving women the opportunity to design their own dresses for bridal parties and other special events. By using Coco Myles' website (www.cocomyles.com) women can design their dress from a variety of options and create their own reasonably priced made-to-order couture.

"We believe our customer knows what looks best on them, and that they already have in mind the type of dress they want to wear," says Coco Myles founder Howard Bender. "We developed our easy-to-use website so they can build their own custom creations or choose a dress from our Celebrity Inspired collection." And the price for a custom designed dress? Less than you might expect. According to Bender the average dress on Coco Myles costs approximately $135.00.

Coco Myles offers two categories of dresses. "Custom Couture" allows users to design their own dress by selecting different combinations of tops and bottoms, fabrics and colors. Users can also add beading from a variety of patterns and accessorize their dress with a shawl or sash, also in a variety of colors.

Dress sizes range from size 2 to 32 - visitors can see for themselves the chest, hip, waist and length measurement of the dresses which makes selecting the correct size easier than it would be by using traditional retail sizing charts. A very liberal return policy also helps to ensure customer confidence at the time of sale. Typical orders take as little as five weeks to ship.

Women may also choose a dress from Coco Myles's "Celebrity Inspired" collection and customize the color to make it their own creation. These dresses are inspired versions of some of the most popular dresses seen at "red-carpet" events such as the Oscars and the Emmys. By being able to select their own color and accessories, customers are able to get the best of both worlds - a beautiful celebrity inspired dress with a touch of personal design.

Coco Myles is finding itself very popular with bridal parties. As Bender explains, "We can help the entire bridal party coordinate their dress selection. Making the selection of bridesmaids' dresses a collaborative effort, gives the bride, her friends, and family, a shared enjoyable, and creative experience. Because this collaboration takes place on the Web, it doesn't matter that the bride and her best friends live hundreds, or even thousands, of miles apart. And since we're able to produce our dresses in approximately six weeks, rather than the 12 weeks quoted by other retailers, we also offer rushed brides-to-be peace of mind."

Coco Myles is also the perfect destination for prom and formal dresses for fashion- and cost-conscious teens.

"Our dresses are of the highest quality materials and are all handmade. Aside from the fact that now women don't have to take time out of their busy schedules to shop in a store with limited selection, we're sure we offer women the best value proposition of any dress retailer. And our growing customer base definitely agrees," added Bender.

About Coco Myles

Coco Myles offers women the widest selection of made-to-order dresses on the Web. Based in New York, Coco Myles is the brainchild of Howard Bender, an international trade attorney who saw the potential impact of free trade, global markets and the Web on the simple act of buying a dress. By offering dresses directly from the dressmakers with no middlemen or traditional retail costs, Coco Myles is making made-to-order couture available at reasonable prices to women everywhere.