Monday, July 5, 2010

babydoll

'Making of #2'
I'm quite sure I've waxed lyrical about how much I love Alexa Chung's style but it really can't be helped in this particular post. Her now defunct show "It's On With Alexa Chung" was so keenly followed by many (particularly on TheFashionSpot forums) for all of her sartorial choices and one of the dresses she wore (Okay, that's a lie. Pretty much ALL the things she wore) caught my eye. It was a cream babydoll dress, with a pleated skirt, made from what I supposed to be some floral jacquard material that I just fell in love with. Easy to style a million ways, so simple and clean! A little internet investigation concluded that it was by Opening Ceremony, already far too pricey and alas! already sold out. This was much, much longer ago so I'd been toying around with the idea of making the dress myself, since its a pretty simple shape and finally this week of semester holidays I got around to it.
I used the same custom bodice block I drafted for my ' Anita dress and added some extra front and back darts to shape it and make it more fitted. The pleated skirt was pretty straightforward. I was really eager to finish it yesterday that I couldn't be bothered running around to different Spotlights/Lincrafts to find a matching zip (originally I wanted a cream zip with really chunky gold hardware) but all they had at my local Lincraft were plain full coloured ones. I'm still not sure whether I ruined it with the black zip, but I suppose it gives it a bit more of an 'edge'. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out, I even overlocked all the seams this time so I'll get more wear out of it. :P Usually on projects made for myself I skip over those details haha.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

My goodness! You are wonderfully talented and that dress looks impeccably made. I loved that dress on Alexa when I saw it too, and now I covet it even more...

xo Jenny

nicole said...

Oh my, this is lovely. That black zip certainly adds to it, it does make it more 'edgy'. Good work on this, it's stunning.

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nicole said...

I absolutely love this dress, you are so talented!

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Chelsea Ann said...

The black zipper definitely wasn't what I expected, but I think it turned out really well. Good work!

m.fay said...

DARLING! just found your blog...hope you stop by mine and say hello.

m.fay
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shanel said...

Wow! Ur sewing skills are impeccable! If u ever decide to sell these..please let me know!

Nazneen Zainal Abidin said...

just found ur blog! LOVE IT!!
Which uni are u in? I'm from Melbourne too :) and I love dressmaking!

Xx Nazneen
www.neensynaye.blogspot.com

Margaret said...

gorgeous :)
great blog
loving the posts
stop by sometime xx

Anonymous said...

I love it!
amazing!