Well, one day down in the hundred dresses for The Hundred dresses march! Does anybody else have “Ninety-Nine bottles of Beer” stuck in their heads? just me?
This dress had a sneak preview back in February, both as background in a sewing-room shot, and as a pocket view — it’s an Echino fabric 9929:
Here are a couple much more close-up views of the bodice:
and the binding:
and the border on the skirt:
And the side zip, which needs a little bit of repair already — I didn’t backstitch enough above the zipper, and it’s coming undone. That stretch of seam above the zipper is always a big tension point in my dresses. I’m never sure whether to reinforce it, or start the zipper higher, or what. Suggestions?
And the pocket:
And the back:
I’ve worn this a couple of times, and it’s a gratifying experience. some of my dresses have something I privately call the LGG factor, where LGG stands for “little girl glee”. Basically, a high-LGG dress is one that gets waves and compliments from the under-eight set, and this is certainly a high-LGG dress. (I would also call this a “Garden Party” dress, one of the hundred dress types in the book …)
Weirdly, although there are so numerous colors in this dress, I have trouble cardigan-matching it. nothing I have is exactly that turquoise in the birds’ wings, which is the color I’d like to match … so I default to the bright pink.
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