blue summer dress
Part of my mom's day gifts.
Bias cut dress, very easy pattern (Burda 7798). Too bad the cotton is faded in an odd way but I wanted thin cotton on sale. I'm a little rusty at the machine so I didn't want to use something expensive!
Other than the top part popping out (I will fix it if I know how), I like it :) The length is nice, too. I didn't modify the pattern at all and used size 10.
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and you gave birth to two boys?
o.O
you don't look like it, Mama.
why are the mommies I know so slim???
There's also the "inhale hard, now!" technique ;)
After I got the machine, I started looking at my off-the-rack clothes. I was criticizing myself for mistakes that were in a lot of my clothes anyway, so that made it a lot easier to just keep trying.
That is a very nice style for you, Merky. It really really suits you. You look so very tall. Parang endless legs.
Your hair's almost to the middle of your back na?
I can only pray that I be like this when I'm your age or when I have kids (whichever comes first). But I don't really want to have kids. *sigh*
I wonder if you look anything like Karen?
How does one really know what style suits her? *scratches head*
This is empire cut but because it's fitted thru the body, I don't look preggo. If it were loose, I would! Plus I'm short-waisted so empire waist makes my torso look longer instead of short, short, short, as long as I don't wear anything that sits at the waist (I think this would make me look short again if I wore a wide belt).
I look like Karen kinda, but she says my nose is different from hers. You forgot there are a few pics of me on Flickr?
Mai...ya, the fabric is a factor. For me, it's also the cut. It really makes me look preggers if there's a lot of material around the empire waist, but if it's draped closer to the body, it is usually ok.
I decided to take the zipper and neck apart to redo and now I'm having trouble with it. LOL. So much for my "best laid plans"! Here I go again (try #4 or 5) and re-install the zipper.
I've been searching in your flickr before to try to see a pic of you! Now that I know that there really is a pic of you in there, I'm going to really really look! I know I saw a pic of you before with hubby and NM (when NM was very very small pa; think he was a toddler then) and it was on your old site.
Do you remember that purple dress I posted on Vox before when I and my female coworkers decided to wear dresses one day? My sister said I looked prego in it, and another guy said that I did look preggers. I thought I looked fine in it, pero I guess not since two of them said otherwise? Dresses annoy me to bits! But they're easy to wear so I'd like to find a style that suits me.
Are all the dresses you buy typically empire style? That dress you wore to R's company party didn't look like it was an empire. Or am I duling?
Not too long ago I had my mom take my measurements for my friend's wedding (bridesmaid dress) and my hips are significantly bigger than my shoulders and chest (not that I didn't know, I always knew that, even before I had a baby). I am really pear-shaped so it's hard to look for a dress. I'm always looking for dresses and buy them when I don't need them if I find the right fit. It's better than finding a dress when you do need one, otherwise you end up paying more for something that's only ok.
I'll take that kind of approach and buy one when I don't need it. I annoy myself a lot when I cram to buy a dress for some occasion and then buy one that I don't really like.
Excuse for a divisoria trip :)