One step below couture is called Luxury Ready-To-Wear (prêt-à-porter in French). Ready-to-wear garments often feature extensive machine sewing, quicker construction methods, and a more generalized fit. They still often feature fabulous materials and outstanding designs, but the customized, hand-embellished and finished couture bit isn’t there. Ready to wear also usually looks more like our expectations of a finished garment, including linings, facings and, occasionally, serged seam allowances. By contrast, a couture garment can appear unfinished on the inside; while linings are used in couture garments, it’s also not uncommon to see hand-overcast seam allowances, stays, and other structural components. Every aspect of a couture garment has been engineered for the correct hang and shaping of the garment, rather than for hanger appeal or expediency.