With the beautiful sleeved wedding dresses still fresh in your mind, I am now thinking about how my BFF and her mum could go about making a look-a-like lace sleeved wedding dress…The job would be daunting, admittedly, but nothing is impossible…
The Grace Kelly number is pretty straightforward, thanks to this Vogue pattern 2979…
This dress, Auriga, has a deep v-neckline, three quarter length fitted sleeves, what looks to be an empire line cut (ie the seam goes up and under the boobs, like in Jane Austen-style dresses) and then falls to a a-line skirt with train in soft fullness…
Vogue Pattern 8532 doesn’t at first look promising, but the helpful line drawings that are supplied with the pattern allow you to look at the basic construction without being distracted by the style and fabric used in the illustration.
Take that bodice, with its shapely just-on-the-shoulder neckline and its beautifully fitted sleeves, and then consider how to create the flowing skirt…
This dress, New Look 6401, would work particularly well, as the princess seams (that is, the vertical fitting seams that run from the bust to the hem) match the bodice princess seams on the Vogue pattern. The fullness of the skirt that falls into a puddle-train, as well as the gentle shaping of the skirt, make it a beautiful option.
Obviously, this would require a toile (that is, a first-run draft of the dress in calico or muslin) to ensure the seams fall in line with one another and the fit and style suits the bride-in-question, but that would be a good start to begin creating the gorgeous styling…
Ultimately, it’s about looking at the construction of the dress you wish to recreate, trying to narrow down the salient points and then hunting through dress patterns to pinpoint the elements that are best recreated. My dress was based on this pattern, which at first glance, is barely an evening dress, let alone a bridal gown!
with excessive tweaking…
and this inspiration…
became this…
with 1960s style over-jacket to boot.
Anything’s possible…with a little help from your mum!!
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