In honor of another beautiful, summery day here in Charleston, I’ll post an earlier project that is quickly becoming my favorite dress. The pattern is Simplicity 3875, view D, done in rayon challis from Hancock fabrics:
This picture was taken about 5 seconds before I spilled coffee all over the front. Thank God it’s machine washable.
The neckline turned out a little more revealing than I would have liked, but it looks cute with a tank under it, so I’m not going to mess around with it any more. I’m thinking of doing another in a nice batik, because it’s a great casual dress, and will work nicely for those hot DC summers. Also, in gauze it would make a great swimsuit cover-up/beach dress. It also went together really quickly, with a minimum of swearing and sticking myself with needles – probably because there are no buttons or zippers (side note: twice now, I’ve managed to sew through my own finger when applying a zipper. I’m still not sure exactly how it happened, but suffice it to say, I was in a great deal of pain. Good thing I believe in suffering for art).
Incidentally, I’m going to use the same pattern for my Capitalist Pig stunt dress.
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