I made this ensemble last summer for a wedding, but somehow got no pictures of me wearing it. The zipper also decided to shred itself the second time I put the dress on, so it's been languishing on the repair pile for a while.
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| Green dress! |
The outer material is an apple-green silk shantung, lined in magenta silk habotai, both from Fashion Fabrics Club. The shantung came fully interfaced, which did some interesting things with the skirt drape, but didn't make it unbearably warm to wear (as I had feared). I drafted the pattern from a custom sloper using the Haslan system. The design is outfit No. 8, in the 1956 Haslan Book of Fuller Figures Drafting No. 3
The dress has a skirt of four sloped panels (nearly forming a complete circle) with a dropped waistline, princess-seamed bodice (and extra darts), and sweetheart-neckline halter. The bolero is made from the same material as the dress, with intrinsic sleeves and stand-up collar around the back of the neck. The dress zips down the left side; the halter back is fitted an has no separate fastener. I opted to use self-fabric-covered buttons for the two decorative points/flaps.
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