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Maxi Dress

Remake of Bebe's Maxi Dress

Here is a dress that one of my coworkers bought and loved it so much that she wanted another on in another fabric.

I started out by borrowing the dress she bought. I traced it onto dotted pattern paper meaning I trace around the actual dress and where the seams met. I took down key measurements for example, how long each section was like the bust line and waistline and seams, stretched and relaxed. I recorded all the design lines, trims and notions used and where they are located. In this case there were 3 rows of elastic.

Then I went on to working perfecting the patterns using the appropriate rulers and the measurements I recorded earlier to create straight lines. The patterns take about a full day or two to complete and mark.

Once the pattern is done then you cut it out in the fabric you like. A little note, knit fabrics are much harder to cut and sew than woven. I usually sandwich knit fabric between 2 sheets of paper so the fabric doesn't move when cutting.

After the cutting is done then I have to go on to the sewing. This garment had a lot of 3 seams of shirring (gathering) and elastic.

First I had to put two shirring stitches to get as even as a gathering as I could.

Then I sewed the seams together and put elastic using my interlock machine.

This is the end result.

Let me know what you think.

Tags: Dress, design, designer, fashion, making, pattern, seamstress, sewing

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Comment by Jessie Yang on December 24, 2008 at 3:22am: Wonderful, it is nice~~~ you should wear a high-heel shoes and wear a necklace for decoration:)

Comment by Houston Street Fashions on December 24, 2008 at 11:37pm: I think you are right Jessie I love to shoot this type of grown with the model in High heels