Used Couture: Yellow Gingham Dress!

5/13/07

Yellow Gingham Dress!

This here dress is made out of the same sheet set that I made the Yellow Gingham Skirt out of, and I'm also lining a purse with it, will post that when I finish it.

I love the empire waist! This was also going to have a full
length skirt, kinda like a modern Regency Era dress, but after making a few mistakes in the cutting process (several really) I had to shorten it. With the feelings I have towards zippers, (avoid them like the plague) I made it with an elastic waist
band. And the red belt I got from Goodwill! (It is so funky!)
After much trial and error, it turned out really nice, I don't think I could be happier with it.

2 comments:

AmeliaB said...: How pretty. Could you post how you made it? Very cool.

~Amelia; 5/13/2007 7:32 PM
Unknown said...: Hmmm, I will have to see what I can do about that. I don't think I could explain it in just words, and I'm terrible about taking photos while I work. Just a couple days ago I was working on a dress of which I had planned on taking before and after photos, and of course I didn't remember till I was about half done. And I wasn't going to take out all my work!; 5/18/2007 7:36 PM

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What am I doing!?

A couple of my sisters (Susan, Abi) and I were out shopping, and I was commenting on the fact that I bought a necklace (just like the one we were looking at) a few days earlier (for a lot cheaper) at a thrift store. And this continued to stew in my mind as we shopped, "There are a lot of funky things at thrift stores, often the clothing doesn't fit quite right.....but I could take them apart and make new things" I like originality and uniqueness, "what if I only bought things from thrift stores?"

The challenge: Starting 01/01/07, for the next 365, 24 hour segments (12 months), I'm not going to buy any new items of clothing.

The rules: I can buy materials (fabric, buttons, yarn, etc.) and anything secondhand.

It's Used Couture, my secondhand journey!

The Begining:

I've been interested in "fashion" and clothing construction as far back as I can remember. When I was real little it was just wanting to wear my swim suit in the middle of the winter, or the feeling I got when Mom had made me a dress (all the possibilities started to run through my head) or when I noticed it was "in" to roll up the edges of your cut off jeans, and rolled mine up a lot higher then I needed to, I remember giving my Mom the hardest time when she would try and get me into something I didn't like. Over the last 19 years, since I have been out of my Mother's womb (or maybe even from before!), and definitely in the last 2-3 years my sense of "style" has evolved tremendously, and through much trial and error (probably still more to come), I feel as I've finely made some headway, it's kinda like I've gotten the foundation down, and now I can start building. I'm not limited by what they sell in the stores, or what patterns you can buy, the sky is the limit now.

5/13/07

Yellow Gingham Dress!

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