Altering the Dress Again...

[sbuchler]

I'm really tired of altering this dress... but when you loose a quarter of your body weight in a year, it's kinda inevitable -- and it's the only one of my gothic fitted dresses that even CAN be altered to my new size, so I suppose I should consider myself lucky... at least I have a dress that fits! (And I know, no one has any sympathy for my

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[bauhausfrau]

[sbuchler]

Thanks! :-D

Flattering?

[learnteach]

YOU look great! Congratulations!

Re: Flattering?

[sbuchler]

*blush* Thanks!!

[ppfuf]

You look great! And I have complete sympathy for your plight, I lost some weight had had to make GM pull in the seams of my dresses.
Other rant, WTH has happened to sizing on modern clothes! Are the numbers actually supposed to mean something anymore? 'Cause if I'm a size 8, what are truly small women wearing? negative numbers?

[sbuchler]

I know what you mean! I wasn't a size 8 in junior high and they're big on me now! But women's clothing has gone through serious size inflation 'cause the fashion industry realized they sell more clothes to women if they label them with smaller sizes. It's insidious. :-S

Thanks!

[virginiadear]

No, those size labels on ready-made clothing don't mean much of anything.
It's called "vanity sizing." What marketing research 'discovered' (and what stores everywhere could have simply told researchers) is, in this size-conscious society which also claims to be "size accepting," women simply don't want to walk out of the store or even up to the cash register with a size larger than [number.]

Some of them are also home sewers who are baffled by the "wrong sizing" on pattern envelopes and who don't want to hear that pattern makers ("Big Three" pattern makers, meaning Butterick, Simplicity, McCall's, and Vogue---and yes, I know that's four) are working within industry standards, where a size 8---which is the industry's "base" of sizing, is so many inches in the full bust; I want to say that today it's 34, but it might be 32, and a B cup.
So, a lot of those ladies go all spluttery with indignation, proclaiming, "This pattern company has its head up its _____! According to them, I wear a Size 24, but I never have to buy bigger than a

[sbuchler]

On the other hand, if I make the size on the patterns (for the "Big Three") according to my measurements it's ALWAYS too big, whereas if I make the size I usually buy in the store, it's generally pretty close... I never did understand that one.

[katerinfg]

You look fabulous. I, alas, have the opposite problem.

[sbuchler]

Thanks! Warm fuzzies! I've been there, too :-S

[gwacie]

Hawt!

Like your placket fabric :) Over-dress is gonna be EASY compared to that under-dress, never fear! and you will be THE HOTNESS in it :)

[sbuchler]

:-) Thanks!