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Last month a friend of mine was having serious difficulties finding a decent bridesmaid dress for her 13 year old daughter. You know the situation, either the bust fits and the hips don’t, or the waist is great but the bust gapes. Also a lot of the bridesmaid dresses in the stores can be rather low at the front and this was also one of the problems my friend faced while shopping with her daughter.
So my friend Mary asked me (8 weeks before the wedding ahhh!!) if I could design and make a simple bridesmaid dress for her daughter. We worked together to come up with a simple A-line shaped dress with matching hair band. Rachel had two fittings (one of which was done over Skype and the other was over the phone while Mary was in France!! This was quite a challenge but modern tech saved the day!
The skirt part of the dress was developed from the Libby skirt. It also has a thick band detail at the waist and a shallow sweetheart neck. The fabric is a brilliant jade stretch cotton sateen.
Improvements: in hindsight I think I would have made the sweetheart shallower. I think a straighter neckline suits a dress that requires a higher neckline. But all in all i’m really happy with the dress and Rachel looks wonderful!
more blogged at: www.bolacooperblog.blogspot.com
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Stretch cotton sateen
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Sep 6, 2010, 11.13 PMby bola
Thanks for all of your lovely comments. Yes I agree Anna, I think that teens find it extremely hard to find nice fashionable clothes which don’t make them look 10 years older. This was quite a challenging dress for me not only because i’m still learning about drafting to personal sizes but also the distance between us, and not being able to fit Rachel myself. Haha actually I still haven’t met these friends of mine in the flesh- we originally met online through a mutual friend!
Sep 6, 2010, 10.43 PMby annawilliamson
this is beautiful! it’s hard for young girls to dress up these days without showing too much for their age- you’ve done an excellent job of giving her a fabulous, flattering and age appropriate dress.
Sep 6, 2010, 08.05 PMby ichigogirl
Nice! What a luxury for a 13 year old to get a custom made dress… lucky girl!
Sep 6, 2010, 07.52 PMby emlj
wow great job in that time! she looks lovely in your creation :-)