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Description
1950’s purple and black dress. Its made from a vintage simplicity pattern, 2879. I made changes to the bodice, the kind of darts and underarm shaping. I added fabric covered buttons down the front.
Material Notes
Made in purple gaberdene, and black polycotton, interfacing, black zip
Difficulty
Intermediate
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Mar 23, 2013, 02.57 PMby lauriana
It looks like such a cool dress! Unfortunately, the picture somehow got stretched out so it’s hard to see how great it really is.
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Mar 23, 2013, 09.02 PMby Fletcher & Fenn
I’m really sorry. I didn’t realize. This keeps happening. Thanks for letting me know. I will try and sort it out. x