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cimoreneMy cousin's chosen bridesmaid dress arrived yesterday (it's Carmen from Stop Staring!). Of course I ran out to try it on, and I made waxjism take pictures, because the last time I was putting together an outfit for wedding attendance I failed to get any pictures at all, which displeased some people such as isilya, whom it is my goal in life never to even mildly disappoint.
I think you can't really tell in these pictures, but the waist of the dress makes a peak between the breasts and the bust area is pleated in the center, then gathered on the top, bottom, and inside edge of the cups. This provides a lot of extra fabric - about twice as much as needed, in fact (pinup dresses were not designed with my body type in mind), so I'm going to have to alter it. Thanks to this construction, the alteration will be simple: just re-doing the gathers and taking in the excess fabric. I think I will do it by hand.
Currently on my mind is choice of tights (I doubt the bride will approve the thigh-high striped socks pictured here. Patterned lace? Fishnets?) and choice of jewelry (not pearls. Black velvet ribbon as a choker, or some kind of heavy multi-strand deal, or a long 20's-style pendant like this or this?).
On another note,
I had a nightmare about trying to take![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darknessofme to school when she was still tiny. I think she was like, 5, and I had been turned into a bird, which made it very hard to drag her, and I couldn't drive the car, and when I got to school her friend Sara was like, "OMG A BIRD! BIRDS AREN'T ALLOWED HERE! YOU CAN'T LAND ON THE ROOF" and I was like, "I'm trying to -" and she called her dad, who was in the school, and he brought out a search party to catch me, so I fled onto campus. Also, for some reason, it was snowing on campus. And there was a whole interlude about trying to get her dressed and I got her to wear chartreuse polka-dotted tights and a fuchsia dress. Actually, the outfit was the most pleasant part of the dream. This time I was pretty much too exhausted to fly very far at once, which is unusual for my flying dreams. Being a bird, however, is also unusual. I don't usually have wings, let alone feathers. Although I think I maybe also had some kind of arms. I guess I was a Bird Person or something.
waxjism take pictures, because the last time I was putting together an outfit for wedding attendance I failed to get any pictures at all, which displeased some people such as isilya, whom it is my goal in life never to even mildly disappoint. I think you can't really tell in these pictures, but the waist of the dress makes a peak between the breasts and the bust area is pleated in the center, then gathered on the top, bottom, and inside edge of the cups. This provides a lot of extra fabric - about twice as much as needed, in fact (pinup dresses were not designed with my body type in mind), so I'm going to have to alter it. Thanks to this construction, the alteration will be simple: just re-doing the gathers and taking in the excess fabric. I think I will do it by hand.
Currently on my mind is choice of tights (I doubt the bride will approve the thigh-high striped socks pictured here. Patterned lace? Fishnets?) and choice of jewelry (not pearls. Black velvet ribbon as a choker, or some kind of heavy multi-strand deal, or a long 20's-style pendant like this or this?).
On another note,
I had a nightmare about trying to take
darknessofme to school when she was still tiny. I think she was like, 5, and I had been turned into a bird, which made it very hard to drag her, and I couldn't drive the car, and when I got to school her friend Sara was like, "OMG A BIRD! BIRDS AREN'T ALLOWED HERE! YOU CAN'T LAND ON THE ROOF" and I was like, "I'm trying to -" and she called her dad, who was in the school, and he brought out a search party to catch me, so I fled onto campus. Also, for some reason, it was snowing on campus. And there was a whole interlude about trying to get her dressed and I got her to wear chartreuse polka-dotted tights and a fuchsia dress. Actually, the outfit was the most pleasant part of the dream. This time I was pretty much too exhausted to fly very far at once, which is unusual for my flying dreams. Being a bird, however, is also unusual. I don't usually have wings, let alone feathers. Although I think I maybe also had some kind of arms. I guess I was a Bird Person or something.
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Date: 21 May 2009 11:44 pm (UTC)