Sunday, June 14, 2009

Blue striped silk dress




This is dress is based on a dress I saw in Selfridges for about 600 pounds. I loved it but knew I could easily make it myself. It is made of silk white net as a base and strips of silk navy blue chiffon all the way up. It has a skin colored layer underneath it. Adjusting the waistline...

Unlike the original dress I saw I finished my dress off with something more special. Instead of using a zip I created about 40 individual hooks and little buttons made of the same material. However, they kept opening up so I changed it to having the lower 2/3rds in a blue zip and the top part in buttons.