Avert Your Eyes

Avert your eyes if you don't want to see another eBay listing of mine ... It is looking more and more likely that the Dress A Day family is going to have to move house, so I'm releasing several things into the wild, including this dress.

It really pains me to let this one go; I spent hours working on it. It was the first silk dress I made after my son was born. I bought this (very expensive) fabric at Vogue; it's a silk dupioni with a very low slub; the dots are pale green, blue, and lavender. The pattern is vintage, of course (I went looking for it the other day, but I may have put it somewhere "safe" because I can't find a trace of it). The buttons are (I think) from a vintage stash sent to me by a friend in France. The belt buckle is vintage mother-of-pearl. I spent SO long working on it, in fact, what with the wanting-it-to-be-perfect, and the no-time-after-birth-of-child, and the going-back-to-work and all, that I dropped two or more bust sizes between the time I started it and the time I finished it. It's a B40, and I ... am not. Oooooops.

Here's a closeup of the bodice:



And the buttons/fabric:



And, finally, the back:



My weight doesn't fluctuate very much now -- I often wonder where those darn fifteen pounds go on the rare occasions that I kick them out -- but all the same, I try not to embark on any project that I can't finish in a matter of days, not weeks or months, and this dress is the reason!