New Dress!

We went to a wedding last weekend, and despite having strated this dress about 6 months ago, I was of course frantically sewing the hem the night before and panic-matching accessories.  Anyway, I finished it on time, and trimmed a hat to match, glory be!  It fits perfectly and is comfortable and the right length and lovely lovely lovely and I totally love it!  Definitely my current favourite.

Here are some not very good pictures of the dress...we were just too busy having a jolly time to mess about with concentrating on photos!

The pattern I used was a slightly dodgy 80s shift dress pattern I found at the bottom of my mum's pattern collection, which I retraced and altered to fit (and be less 80s-y).  I also added the scallop neckline and a bit of extra width to the skirt for ease of mad dancing.

Bought the hat in a sale reduced to £18 from £60, pulled of the boring black sash and wonky bow and replaced it with a sash made of leftover dress fabric and some peacock feathers, which just so happened to be the perfect green.  I also changed the horrible chunky white hairband  to a thin one which I covered in brown ribbon.

I found the jacket in a charity shop and bought my shoes on ebay.

Mid mad dancing....we had an extremely good evening....