Party Dress!

My company party was last night and I made a new dress for it:

The bodice is good ol’ 1577 again, and the skirt is adapted from development 2751. The fabric is a bronzy-coppery coated poly denim, which I don’t think I would have ever picked up except that it was on super-super-sale at fabric outlet in the mission last week, and because I already gotten this other laminated denim I didn’t know what to do with, so I thought I could kill two birds with one stone and have both a wearable party dress and a muslin. Woot!

The fabric is really heavy but despite that is very easy to sew with, and although I used a press cloth I don’t think I really needed one — there was no transfer to my (hot) iron or the ironing board.

Next time I will probably make the patch pocket a bit deeper, and possibly extend it to the side seam (might have to see what that does to the zipper):

Speaking of zippers:

I just did my conventional finish-the-neck with bias tape:

Here’s the sleeve binding — also, considering that the fabric is so heavy and plasticky, I didn’t feel the need to zig-zag the seam allowances as I normally do:

And here’s the back:

This is a pretty odd dress, even by my standards, but I kind of love it. I wore it with black tights and black ankle boots and a black cardigan, and a heavy black necklace, and was really comfortable all night, which I’m normally not in party clothes.

One of the things we were celebrating (besides having fun working together) was the launch of our new discovery reading app in the app store … if you have an iPad running iOS 7 or later, would you consider downloading it and giving it a try? It’s free, it will help you find amazing new articles about topics and concepts interesting to you (as well as articles shared by your pals on Twitter and Facebook and top news) and if you need a recommendation other than mine, Bono said it was his new favorite app. (!)

I’m already planning to wear this dress again for new Year’s Eve …

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