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A pencil dress with an elastic gathered lace top
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Description
The top part of the dress is a stretchy lace with a cotton lining, couldn’t find a stretch lining for it. Th down part is a non stretch knit fabric. The center front, the two side seams and the center back are gathered with elastic on the inside. The back is a low V-cut with a zipper closure from the center back to d middle of the skirt. There is a back center slit for leg movement
I wore this outfit to a sunday church servce. Got lots of compliments on it :-)
Material Notes
Stretch lace for the top and a knit medium weight cotton fabric for the down.
Difficulty
Novice
Categories
- Season
- Summer, Spring
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Dress
- Style
- Classic, Business, Evening Wear
- Material
- Cotton, Lace/Sequins
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Nov 8, 2012, 05.17 PMby Linda O.
Lol it wsnt very easy dear as in stretches coupled wit d gathering but b4 I knew it, it ws done.
Aug 24, 2012, 03.42 AMby Linda O.
Tnks pple. Am glad u guys like my work
Aug 23, 2012, 12.15 PMby jadealamode
looks great! love the colours too
Aug 23, 2012, 12.08 PMby Jodi Wade
Gorgeous colour combination. You look great!
Aug 23, 2012, 09.57 AMby SassyT
Am a fan of yellow and blue. Nice dress.
Aug 22, 2012, 09.45 PMby Mary Athey
Its lovely, the yellow and blue are great to.gether x