Karen Chen recently revealed that her beautiful figure skating dress that she wore while competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics was handmade by her mother.

Last week, the 22-year-old figure skater helped Team USA win a silver medal in the team competition with her performances in the short program and the free skate. For her free skate performance “Butterfly’s Lovers’ Concerto”, she wore a dazzling purple dress arranged by her mother.

Chen spoke to The New York Times about her mother’s dresses, “It’s hard to explain, but I just feel the best when I wear them.”

Chen’s mother Hsiu-Hui Tseng said she started making dresses for her daughter very early on in her skating career after they realized that pre-made dresses were uncomfortable for Chen to compete in. “Her body is very sensitive, and so her dresses need to fit in a certain way,” Tseng told the Times. “So I said, ‘I’ll see what I can do’ and solved that issue on my own.”

She continued, “I barely slept at all, but I wanted to make something really special. I know in the future I won’t have this chance because she will have a different life, and I will miss this.”