Birthday Dress #2

This is the second dress I made for my friend, a self drafted pattern inspired by a top that she already owned.

The fabric is a silver grey to black ombre silk purchased in Li Yuen Street in Central HK with a bit of New Year bling handsewn on the straps and around the empire line seam. The bling came from Sham Shui Po in HK where there are about a million notions stores. I went into about 999,999 of them until my eyes were aching from looking at diamante trim and I found a double strand of slightly blue tinted stones which matched the fabric perfectly.

The dress is lined in the same fabric and has a side invisible zipper.

The bodice was constructed first and then the overlay was draped on in 3 separate sections. This was the most difficult part and I redid it several times trying to get the right balance between it looking random but not messy.


I wore the green Cynthia Rowley dress I made recently. My friend doesn't usually wear a tiara, that was a bit of birthday fun!