Comments on: Wedding dress progress – at last! http://couturesmith.com/2008/09/13/wedding-dress-progress-at-last/ ...on to the next Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Valerie http://couturesmith.com/2008/09/13/wedding-dress-progress-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-10976 Valerie Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:37 +0000 http://couturesmith.com/?p=292#comment-10976 Hi, I just came across your blog searching for green bridesmaids dresses on Google. I need a dress for my sisters wedding and i absolutly love that green one, but i cant find anymore info about it. Could you maybe tell me where it is from? Any help you could give me would be great! Thanks, Valerie Hi,

I just came across your blog searching for green bridesmaids dresses on Google. I need a dress for my sisters wedding and i absolutly love that green one, but i cant find anymore info about it. Could you maybe tell me where it is from? Any help you could give me would be great!
Thanks,

Valerie

]]> By: jessie http://couturesmith.com/2008/09/13/wedding-dress-progress-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-9847 jessie Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:20:36 +0000 http://couturesmith.com/?p=292#comment-9847 i am in love with that green dress. where can i find it or one similar and with that same color?? im getting married in august and i really want that dress! lol thank you for any and all answers! i am in love with that green dress. where can i find it or one similar and with that same color?? im getting married in august and i really want that dress! lol thank you for any and all answers!

]]> By: Jim Spence http://couturesmith.com/2008/09/13/wedding-dress-progress-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 Jim Spence Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:31:02 +0000 http://couturesmith.com/?p=292#comment-1526 Hi While searching for Blogs about Wedding Dress I found your site ng dress progress - at last! : Couturesmith. Thank you for the effort you have put in. Hi While searching for Blogs about Wedding Dress I found your site ng dress progress – at last! : Couturesmith. Thank you for the effort you have put in.

]]> By: Marji http://couturesmith.com/2008/09/13/wedding-dress-progress-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-1283 Marji Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:32:59 +0000 http://couturesmith.com/?p=292#comment-1283 Connie, try putting the waist stay where the waist is in this dress - the empire waist. A waist stay is designed to support the skirt, and there is a significant amount of weight here with all that skirt, so you really can't skip it, but you can try it up around the ribs. The problem is, she may feel as if she can't breathe before the night is over. Another thing to think about is not attaching the waist stay to the corselet, but instead just attaching it at the side seams at the natural waist and having it float inside the dress. I've done that, with success, on vintage cotton summer sundresses. For Lauren's dress I just made that has an empire waist, I used an empire waist placement, and used an elastic bra-strap hook thing on the ends of the ribbon, to give just a bit of breathing room in the waist stay. This is such a fun part of the project. Lucky mom! Connie, try putting the waist stay where the waist is in this dress – the empire waist. A waist stay is designed to support the skirt, and there is a significant amount of weight here with all that skirt, so you really can’t skip it, but you can try it up around the ribs. The problem is, she may feel as if she can’t breathe before the night is over.
Another thing to think about is not attaching the waist stay to the corselet, but instead just attaching it at the side seams at the natural waist and having it float inside the dress. I’ve done that, with success, on vintage cotton summer sundresses.
For Lauren’s dress I just made that has an empire waist, I used an empire waist placement, and used an elastic bra-strap hook thing on the ends of the ribbon, to give just a bit of breathing room in the waist stay.

This is such a fun part of the project. Lucky mom!

]]> By: Lauren http://couturesmith.com/2008/09/13/wedding-dress-progress-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-1193 Lauren Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:28:38 +0000 http://couturesmith.com/?p=292#comment-1193 Mom I was watching The Price is Right today and they had like that EXACT green dress in purple, and I liked it, so I was trying to find one like it. But definitely not on me! Mom I was watching The Price is Right today and they had like that EXACT green dress in purple, and I liked it, so I was trying to find one like it. But definitely not on me!

]]> By: Kat http://couturesmith.com/2008/09/13/wedding-dress-progress-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-1042 Kat Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:48:40 +0000 http://couturesmith.com/?p=292#comment-1042 Oh yes!!! The 80's have returned :) . That wedding dress is beautiful. Mine was very similar, a Butterick pattern in a mermaid style. It's still hanging in my closet. Couldn't bear to have it professionally boxed up, airtight and everything because then I wouldn't feel free to pull it out, look at it, and remember all the days that went into creating it. In fact, one of my sorority sisters from college just said to me yesterday, "Remember when you were always working on your wedding dress at the house?" Oh yes!!! The 80′s have returned :) . That wedding dress is beautiful. Mine was very similar, a Butterick pattern in a mermaid style. It’s still hanging in my closet. Couldn’t bear to have it professionally boxed up, airtight and everything because then I wouldn’t feel free to pull it out, look at it, and remember all the days that went into creating it. In fact, one of my sorority sisters from college just said to me yesterday, “Remember when you were always working on your wedding dress at the house?”

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