A while back, I asked Sally of Already Pretty to come up with a variation of her favorite dresses from my shop. If you don’t know Sally, I recommend checking out her website – her site is full of useful shopping information, and she is all about embracing who you are and your shape and figure. For the collaboration, she chose my 50’s inspired plaid dress.
She gave me the above mood board to work with. It’s funny that many of my customers ask me to make long sleeved dresses, whereas I prefer sleeveless. It is always a challenge to draft patterns for sleeves and sew them. Overall I’m happy with the outcome. I lowered the neckline, added cropped sleeves and to make things interesting, I used the plaid fabric on bias. The act of cutting the plaid on bias was a challenge since I have to match the patterns!
Here is Sally’s review of the dress I made for her and here is a similar dress in shop.
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Ginger says
What a gorgeous dress! I bet she’ll get tons of wear out of this!
Chie says
Thank you! I hope so:)
Lyddiegal says
I think it came out really well – Sally looks adorable!
Chie says
Thank you! It was a challenge to add the sleeves, but overall I think the dress turned out well:)