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Colour for the new year
I'm not one for New Year's resolutions, really, important life decisions rarely line up neatly with New Year's Eve, and making resolutions just for the sake of making resolutions seems pointless to me. I have something in the nature of a resolution for 2009, though, and that is to wear more colour this year. I never thought I would say this, but I ( Read more... ) -
...and a couple of pictures.
Of course, in the end I didn't have time to revamp the bodice for the chartreuse and black bustle skirt and didn't really want to wear anything else with the skirt, either; so I ended up wearing the lace appliqué dress instead, but with chartreuse accessories because I really wanted to wear that eyeliner. A little boring, but comfortable and the ( Read more... ) -
Dress anxiety
I wore the wool wiggle dress in the end, after having made a detachable collar for the lace appliqué dress from leftover scraps of the lace, then decided that the plainer wool dress would be better anyway, and we were horribly late. I really need to get a grip on this formal clothes problem, it's stupid, embarrassing and ends up being rude, too. ( Read more... ) -
Pink dress, over and out
Wore the dress. Not very happy with it, I ended up ditching the whole contrasting fabric idea and did the lining and bustle in the same pink fabric as the rest of the dress, which was a bore. I didn't have enough time to make a matching hair ornament or find matching earrings, which makes the whole thing feel a bit half-assed, and there are a few ( Read more... ) -
Ok, not bright red.
I got the main fabrics for the dress yesterday - the pink dupioni, which is eye-wateringly bright in large amounts, and pink cotton to flat line with. There was a dupioni in the same red as the warp in the pink fabric, which I assumed would work as a contrast, until I looked at them next to one another. It doesn't work. At all. The hot pink brings ( Read more... ) -
Pink dress progress, maybe.
A friend of ours is celebrating her birthday with a theme party in less than a month. The theme - and the dress code - is her, which is a brilliant idea, I think. It's just causing me a bit of trouble, for although I love her style and we have things in common style-wise, I really want to do it properly, while still making a dress I can wear for ( Read more... )
