Avert your eyes if you don’t want to see one more eBay noting of mine … It is looking much more as well as much more likely that the gown A Day household is going to have to relocation house, so I’m releasing a number of things into the wild, including this dress.
It truly pains me to let this go; I spent hours working on it. It was the very first silk gown I made after my child was born. I purchased this (very expensive) material at Vogue; it’s a silk dupioni with a extremely low slub; the dots are pale green, blue, as well as lavender. The pattern is vintage, of program (I went searching for it the other day, however I may have put it somewhere “safe” since I can’t discover a trace of it). The buttons are (I think) from a vintage stock sent to me by a buddy in France. The belt buckle is vintage mother-of-pearl. I spent SO long working on it, in fact, what with the wanting-it-to-be-perfect, as well as the no-time-after-birth-of-child, as well as the going-back-to-work as well as all, that I dropped two or much more bust sizes between the time I started it as well as the time I completed it. It’s a B40, as well as I … am not. Oooooops.
Here’s a closeup of the bodice:
And the buttons/fabric:
And, finally, the back:
My weight doesn’t vary extremely much now — I frequently question where those darn fifteen pounds go on the unusual events that I kick them out — however all the same, I try not to embark on any type of job that I can’t surface in a matter of days, not weeks or months, as well as this gown is the reason!
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