Prom Dress :)

For my first blog ever, I thought I'd share a few pictures of my most favourite thing I've ever made. My prom dress took me longer to make then I spent revising, only cost £20 in materials so it wasn't a complete bomb, and did look pretty good on the day! I must have changed the original design about 50 times before I finally settled on this the night before. It's my most favourite item of clothing, even if I only wore it once! It fitted wonderfully and didn't fall apart at all, I was very afraid it would!

 This picture shows my dress in full, unfortunately its a bit creased because it's been folded in a draw for a few months, it's floor length with the excess material from the dress being used to highlight the waist band, top and the length of the shawl.

 This picture is of a close up of the top of my dress. I've pleated the top so that it shows the fitted structure and when it gets to the waist band it is able to feely move so that walking isn't a problem, but it also has the pleats in to add detail to the skirt. I've sewn the pleats into the base fabric so they don't move and pull the dress out of place.

This last picture is of the back of my dress, the zip acctually does up when I wear it, but for some reason the mannequin's back seems to be bigger then mine, even though my measurements are a lot larger then that! The pleated deatail carries on to the back and round to the zip, and I inserted the zip as invisably as I could to give my dress a very neat finish.