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Post by tinabina on May 3, 2009 11:31:30 GMT -5
I dunno how many people here this would apply to, but I'm going to prom this year and am attempting to make my dress. Anyone with me here? I just got a pretty simple long black satiny dress from the thrift store on half off day, and I'm converting it into this pattern: www.burdastyle.com/patterns/show/3852. I've never actually worked with real patterns before, and I'm sure everyone will say that my prom dress is not the place to start...but that's just how I roll. Anyway, anyone else doing it/done it/have advice? Pictures? Do share! I will as I come up with them. |
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Post by tinabina on May 26, 2009 7:59:53 GMT -5
Okay, so it's all done, prom was fun, and my dress didn't fall off! ;D  Me and my "prom date." Both our boyfriends were 21 and couldn't go, so we went together  Shit picture, I know, but it's the only one that actually shows me entirely, and sorta shows the blue bit in the back.  Some of the seams were kinda janky, but hey, it got the job done. |
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Post by Meggers on May 26, 2009 12:23:15 GMT -5
That came out awesome!
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Post by zannaxbanana on May 26, 2009 22:28:51 GMT -5
ooo so pretty!!!
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Post by tinabina on May 26, 2009 22:44:29 GMT -5
Thanks you guys <3
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Post by heartofbrass on May 27, 2009 0:07:29 GMT -5
Most excellent! Thanks for posting.
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Post by bex on May 27, 2009 1:31:42 GMT -5
cooool! and your hair looks awesome too! could you do a tutorial for it? haha
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Post by eatyrspleens on May 28, 2009 1:18:09 GMT -5
cooool! and your hair looks awesome too! could you do a tutorial for it? haha that's what i was thinking! you're hair looks awesome! (and so does the dress, haha.  ) |
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Post by tinabina on May 29, 2009 6:27:42 GMT -5
Haha, thanks guys. I would do a tutorial, but it probably wouldn't be very good (taking pictures of the top of your own head sounds like a stunt). You can probably look up those "mohawks" on youtube, I think there are a lot of tutorials with basically the same technique that I used:
1. Section off the front piece and clip it out of the way
2. Gather about half of the remaining hair into a very high ponytail (get it as close as possible to the front section of hair)
3. Tease the shit out of the front and hairspray away. Clip it back and down. I didn't tease my bangs, I just clipped them back over the section to make it look a bit smoother.
4. Tease the ponytail and remaining hair a bit, as much as you want.
I sort of curled the ends of my hair to make it look a little fancy, but I left the whole thing pretty loose and sloppy to keep it from being too fancy.
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Post by bex on May 30, 2009 14:01:56 GMT -5
thanks! i want to try it! my hair is curly though...i guess i could straighten it first
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Post by tinabina on May 31, 2009 12:47:18 GMT -5
I think it could be an interesting thing to try with curly hair...hmm. My hair is naturally wavy and frizzy, but I just blow dry it really well and it calms down a bit.
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Post by bex on May 31, 2009 15:39:09 GMT -5
whoa...i just kind of held it up like that with my hands to see what it would look like and it did look pretty cool...pretty 80's though!
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Post by tinabina on Jun 4, 2009 17:27:51 GMT -5
Precisely =D
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