August 2, 2010

New dress, now with more pictures

I've been too busy to pose in the shelf bust dress again, so instead I'm treating you to some more blurry-but-cute images of it, and a detail shot of the bodice as modeled by my not-so-faithful dressmaker's dummy.


Why do I talk down my dummy like that, you wonder? Well... I couldn't actually close this dress on her. Yep, her minimum bust circumference is still a bit bigger than mine and her breasts are not at the same height relative to the shoulder. I'm glad I bought her second hand, quite cheaply, because she mostly does service as a fancy clothes-hanger. I am planning on making an actual tape-body-double someday soon though. I've already enlisted E's cooperation, when I was complaining about how much easier it would be to envision techical workings of the bodice for this dress on a proper dummy.

16 comments:

  1. I just wanted to tell you that this is my favorite of all your projects I've seen so far. It looks like you just stepped out of a movie!

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  2. You made a beautiful dress. One of my favorites too!

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  3. Love Love the dress! And I have the same problem with my dress form. My bust height is much different than the dress form and my apex to apex is off too, also the shoulder to waist length is off. Makes it really hard to use for a close fit bodice.

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  4. Great dress. The fit and pattern are wonderful. The hat is perfect with it.

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  5. I love this dress! I've never really had an interest in vintage, but I could see myself in this style of dress! It is absolutely divine!

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  6. Beautiful creation! You didn't tell us the pattern maker & number, did you?

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  7. I was planning to buy a dress form like yours on the weekend (they were on sale) but lucky I took my tape measure! Bust point way, way too high, back waist too long, and upper chest too large. And this was the smallest size! So of course I did not buy it :(
    Love the dress!!

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  8. Very nice! Love the fabric too - didn't realise it had blue in it when you first posted!

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  9. Stunning in all respects. I love the fabric!

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  10. I didn't realise the fabric was blue either... Lovely bust detail. I have exactly the same problem with my dressmakers dummy, but I still use her all the time.

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  11. Beautiful dress, just in my style, not to mention a hat with it :))
    BTW it looks much better on you than on a dummy :))

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  13. Great dress. My dummy needs to lose a few pounds to match me as well. I'm going to put her on a diet.

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  14. This is such a perfect dress, well done, it looks fantastic on you :-)

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