dress

Stripe Back Cut Out Dress

I’ve never been to Europe, but this dress is my imagination (mostly coming from movies) of what French girl would be wearing..nautical stripes, black, and sitting at cafe with espresso and a cigarette.

I wanted to customize my favorite cut out dress design into something that’s wearable for fall.
So for this one,
1) added elbow length sleeves
2) changed the top fabric from non-stretch cotton to jersey. I thought about adding fitted narrow sleeves with just regular cotton, but I figured it would not work.
3) Kept the square shape neckline, but omitted bust darts, because you don’t need darts for stretchy fabric!
4) Used the interface for back, so I can sew the button hole easily.

Thank you for everyone who wrote me a kind note to my previous post – I’m glad not everyone thinks the back straps look like a baby carrier:)

This dress was something I made last weekend – I love the deep purple color.
I didn’t really plan anything for this dress, I kind of let my inspiration go and see what happens.

When my husband and I took those pictures last weekend, it was so nice and warm. Today, it’s been pouring all day long! It started right after I hung some laundry outside:(

My obsession with back details/open back continues… I posted a couple days ago about making a new dress with twist detail here. I completed the dress last weekend, and took some photos today.
I really liked the result at first, I liked the lace wast band the back… but then I looked at the pictures of my self wearing the dress, the back kind of reminded me of baby carrier?! Doesn’t it look like I’m wearing baby carrier in half naked body?! 🙁