Tag: fashion
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The Wedding Dress – part 5: The real corselette
The design One of the most exciting parts of this project was creating the inner structure of the dress. I’m an engineer so the mechanics of sewing have always fascinated me and I knew that the structure of this dress was something I could seriously nerd out over. The inner corselette was the most important…
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The Wedding Dress – Part 4: Designing the skirt and the final toile
Designing the skirt The skirt thankfully required way fewer versions than the bodice. Again I started with a moulage and experimented with different amount of volume for the “flare” part of the skirt. I also had to shift at what point the skirt starts to flare, which was lower than I initially drafted. The skirt…
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The Wedding Dress – part 3: Inspiration and designing the bodice
I got married last week and it was absolutely incredible. There was so much joy and love in the room, and I got to experience it all in my hand-made wedding dress. Now that we know that the story has a happy ending, I’m so excited to start sharing the journey of making my dress!…
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The Bridesmaids Dresses – part 1
Always one to potentially bite off more than I can chew, I got it in my head to make my the dresses for my bridesmaids as well as my own. Beyond the wedding day itself, being engaged has felt like a wonderful celebration of the people around you, and making these dresses seemed like a…
The Impatient Sewist 