Formal season is fast-approaching. Here’s pretty Bell, photographed on her Year 11 school formal night. Her stunning dress is made by long-time regular and big-time-talented Sydney dressmaker Lawrence Geor. For the dress bodice and self belt, Lawrence used our black…
Here she is. Looking lovely and oh so grown up! For Gabby’s formal dress our style and colour inspiration came after seeing the beautiful Erdem Margot red lace dress on Pinterest. Soon after, we received a delivery of this stunning red chantilly French…
Here’s the next stage of Gabby’s formal dress in the making! After sewing this first toile in calico and fitting it onto the body, I then made the style and fit changes to the original pattern. I eliminated the deep dart at…
Today I started working on the toile for my daughter’s school formal dress. I’m using a Butterick pattern for the base with some slight changes. It’s looking good so far, just need to make the necessary fit adjustments to the…
I wasn’t sure if I should include another review of Vogue 8184 especially since we’ve had posts about it here and here. But this dress is too stunning not to include in this blog as it is a wonderful example…
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