This happens to me right before every significant and fun event, I get upset. And it’s because I go shopping online and in stores tirelessly searching for a dress in my head that doesn’t exist. I envision exactly what I want from head to toe for the event and become let down when it doesn’t appear in front of me. But that’s the problem! What I see myself wearing is created from my imagination and doesn’t exist. And time after time I settle for a dress that’s beautiful and great but not perfect and what I pictured. So with 2015 rolling in quickly I decided to start one of my New Year’s resolutions early. And that resolution is:
Instead of settling for what is available, move on to what you know you deserve and create your own path
Now although this resolution seem a little too deep for just a dress, it still applies. So, instead of being disappointed and hopeless to bring in the new year, I decided to revive my hope, use my fashion designing skills (who knew right?) and skip shopping all together. Well not exactly, I had to buy the fabric, but besides that, created my own path for the PERFECT NYE dress.
Check it out on my blog:
The Materials:
Lace Trim
Feather Trim
Mesh Netting
Black Stretch Lycra
Style Inspiration 1
Style Inspiration 2
Style Inspiration 3
The Patterning Process
The dress consists of 2 layers:
* the underlay- which is nylon lycra with a finished hem and 2 layers of feathered trim
* the overlay - which is mesh with a delicate lace trim at the hem and the sleeve hem as well as chain and beadwork chording around the hem as well as detaling on the neckline
the first layer:
Nylon Lycra sleeveless trapeze style body with finished hem and feather trim
underlayer with the basic overlay mesh layer ontop
The overlay mesh layer with lace hem
Neckline detaling:
Mesh raw edge with chain and beaded chording
Overlay hem detailing:
Adding chain and beading chording to hem as well
Fishised neck and hem detailing for the mesh overlay
Emily Ray Collection Labels
Hem detailing
Fully finished dress (front view)
Fully Finished Dress (back view)
Finished Product!!! Styled with solid black tights, combat boots, dark lip and natural curls
Even passes the twirl test!
