Golden Ethnic Dress - Bohemian Fashions

Evening readers, are you ready to read more ramblings about my passion for making something from nothing!!??

I wanted to make a dress completely from scratch. I had some ideas about the shape and general design but I also wanted the dress to 'speak to me' along the way. I love it when I pick up unusually shaped scraps of material in my fabric boxes and find they are just the right shape for  a section of the garment. Often, these pieces are shapes that I would never, ever think to actually cut to fit in a particular space though - this is where the garment appears to construct itself.

I began with some contrasting colour satin fabrics like this ........

I worked down from the shoulders and chest to the waist and hips with a lovely tapestry fabric and added some darts to give the garment more shape.

I like to work on the back and sides of the garment before the front gets to detailed otherwise the front gets all the attention and becomes a little to fussy!












Always the trickiest part, the skirt. I find that the bodice comes together pretty quickly but the skirt takes a lot more pinning, pleating tacking, removing, starting again, cup of tea!!!!

The number of different fabrics I pleated, pinned, photographed and removed was bordering on the ridiculous!!

Finally, the dark purple seemed to be the best fit from the hundreds of pieces of fabric I scanned in my workshop.. It is actually the lining of an old 'Monsoon' skirt.

Finally, I added some unusual wool around the hips that I purchased in my favourite haberdashery shop in Didim, Turkey. It looks great but was a nightmare to stitch. In the end, I resorted to giving the sewing machine a tea break and hand stitched it in place.

The end result ..................

I hope you like it. Further images and information can be found in my Etsy and Folksy shops (scroll down for the links).


















https://www.etsy.com/listing/199685870/ethnic-dress-bohemian-gypsy-shabby-chic?

https://folksy.com/items/6516287-Ethnic-Dress-Bohemian-Gypsy-Shabby-Chic-Romantic-Fantasy-Prom-Dress-Unique-

Fashion Design - The Creation of 'Autumn Glow' - Bohemian Fashion

Good Evening Bloggers,

It has been over a year since writing my last post. Due to circumstances beyond my control I was unable to post images on here as the settings had been changed by the 'powers that be'!!!!! Finally I think I may just have cracked it. This post was actually written initially in October 2013 but left unfinished until now............

I have made many, many new garments over the last year and will post these as regularly as I can so long as I continue being able to upload photos!!

Autumn Glow was created in Autumn 2013 and it all began with a corset my sister gave me, just here.................................................................I stitched layers of ribbon, lace and other fabrics onto the corset in Autumn colours.

 Then I started working on the skirt, layering fabrics in contrasting colours.

I added a few tucks, pleats and gathers here and there to create an asymmetric hemline. As always, some fabrics are new, others are recycled.

Finally the skirt was complete and stitched together with the bodice. I added detail on the back of the flowing skirt and took some photos in the Autumn sun.

'Autumn Glow' is for sale in both my Etsy and Folksy shops. I hope you like her!!!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/178010348/autumn-glow-green-dress-boho-hippie?

https://folksy.com/items/5450181-Autumn-Glow-Green-Dress-Bohemian-Hippie-Romantic-Corset-Burlesque-Steampunk