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Last night was Geelong Malanka, (a Ukrainian New Years Eve celebration). This Malanka party is fairly relaxed & so the dress code is more semi-formal, the girls tend to wear short party dresses & the boys in a nice shirt & tie or maybe a suit. This is the dress I wore, these pics were taken in the hotel before we left.
I bought the sequined & embroidered lace when I was in Shenzhen last August. Given the fairly ostentatious design of the lace I wanted to have something fairly simple, so I went with as 60s style mini shift dress.
In order to get the pattern matching up (somewhat) at the seams & darts I had to do a bit of applique work. For instance in the picture below half of the blue flower was originally trapped in the dart. It looked really weird so I cut out the flower from another bit of lace and hand-stitched it in place.
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Material Notes
Lace is an embroidered & sequined tulle.
Difficulty
Intermediate
Categories
- Season
- Summer
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Dress
- Style
- Evening Wear, Vintage
- Material
- Lace/Sequins, Polyester, Tulle
Credits
- 5623
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Sep 5, 2011, 06.17 AMby sophienissirios
Really cool dress :-)
Jan 19, 2011, 10.08 PMby beckj28
Runway ready! Just gorgeous!
Jan 18, 2011, 05.07 AMby kelepso
Wow!!! What a great fabric and cute dress! It’s gorgeous!
Jan 17, 2011, 01.41 PMby Lyubov Thompson
It’s a great work!!!and required a lot of patiency.I am very much impressed with your work!
Jan 16, 2011, 06.19 PMby domestic-divaonline
Fun party dress! The bead work is so pretty!
Jan 16, 2011, 11.39 AMby mellu
This is wonderfull!!
Jan 16, 2011, 03.02 AMby lizajane09
beautiful!
Jan 16, 2011, 02.16 AMby sandoz18
Perfect use for the gorgeous material!
Jan 15, 2011, 06.05 PMby momsgotanewhobby
Awesome!
Jan 15, 2011, 04.52 PMby marlalalalere
Incredible fabric and so elegant shoes!!! mmm….I could be jalous! very good job congrats
Jan 15, 2011, 12.28 PMby milkyway
This is extremely gorgeous!! Loveeeeeeeee it
Jan 15, 2011, 09.23 AMby lienepien
Nice dress!
Jan 15, 2011, 07.41 AMby Ruffles Gazebo
this is so beautiful and elegant! amazing fabric….ahhhh!
Jan 15, 2011, 07.21 AMby Ralf Schmitz
this is such a beautiful dress! you have well chosen this pattern to go with the material as it showes the beautiful lace at it’s possible best! WELL DONE! and just beautiful!
Jan 15, 2011, 06.44 AMby irmchen
Excellent!
Jan 15, 2011, 05.38 AMby Ricardo Abreu
Very clever. It is a beautiful dress.
Jan 15, 2011, 04.48 AMby kaiju
wow!