Listening: 1960's mix.
Okay, so . . . to recap. Here is the dress:
. . . and the fabric:
. . . so, with eyelet trim, it should look a bit like this (in a highly idealized world, I mean):
(That's my cat's food prescription in my hand, by the way, not a Valentine. Because . . . ha, ha, ha!)
I even have awesome shoes to wear with it:
Rampage white eyelet platform heels. I got these by accident. I ordered some shoes from a sketchy place on eBay and they sent these by mistake. I emailed to make sure I had the correct return address and they said don't bother, they were on last-call clearance, anyway, and they didn't even have the inventory information for them. And then they sent the shoes I'd ordered, too.
I did some pattern alterations and a test muslin last year and for once in my life I remembered something correctly--it did fit pretty well:
I have a low bust. You know who else had a low bust? Bette Davis. I'm in awesome company. I learned that from a biography of Edith Head.
I've found lately that, now that I notice more about how my clothes fit, they're often a bit snug across the upper back. Things have been fitting better now that I've started adding a little extra width. This seems to fit OK but I suspect it, too, will be tight once I have sleeves on it, so . . . an extra inch it is:
Ordinarily, this would create a shoulder or neck dart, but here it just fades into the princess seam.
I cut and seamed the back last night and I'm working on the seam finish today at lunch.
Okay, so . . . to recap. Here is the dress:
. . . so, with eyelet trim, it should look a bit like this (in a highly idealized world, I mean):
(That's my cat's food prescription in my hand, by the way, not a Valentine. Because . . . ha, ha, ha!)
I even have awesome shoes to wear with it:
Rampage white eyelet platform heels. I got these by accident. I ordered some shoes from a sketchy place on eBay and they sent these by mistake. I emailed to make sure I had the correct return address and they said don't bother, they were on last-call clearance, anyway, and they didn't even have the inventory information for them. And then they sent the shoes I'd ordered, too.
I did some pattern alterations and a test muslin last year and for once in my life I remembered something correctly--it did fit pretty well:
I have a low bust. You know who else had a low bust? Bette Davis. I'm in awesome company. I learned that from a biography of Edith Head.
I've found lately that, now that I notice more about how my clothes fit, they're often a bit snug across the upper back. Things have been fitting better now that I've started adding a little extra width. This seems to fit OK but I suspect it, too, will be tight once I have sleeves on it, so . . . an extra inch it is:
Ordinarily, this would create a shoulder or neck dart, but here it just fades into the princess seam.
I cut and seamed the back last night and I'm working on the seam finish today at lunch.
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