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This was the first assignment for my first patterning/design class. When I designed this dress, I had been looking at a lot of Middle Eastern costume, so I made extensive use of slits, facings and layers, making the garment much more complex than it needed to be.
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The skirt is in two layers--the overskirt, in the multicolored ironwork fabric, is slit up to the thigh on both side seams. The underskirt is of a shades-of-rose camouflage fabric, in inch longer than the overskirt, with short slits on both side seams. The sleeves are also two layers, the oversleeve slit to the elbow (and lined with a green mock-brocade), the undersleeve the same pink as the underskirt.
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When wearing a corset, you need something that fits reasonably close to the body, otherwise the dress will crease under the corset, which can be uncomfortable and adds pleats coming out from under the corset where pleats were not in the original design.
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When wearing a corset, you need something that fits reasonably close to the body, otherwise the dress will crease under the corset, which can be uncomfortable and adds pleats coming out from under the corset where pleats were not in the original design.
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The challenge in wearing corsets as fashion is finding things to go under them that don't make you look like a ballerina. Sure, a longline corset looks really good with a very poofy skirt, but it's a bit overdone.
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The challenge in wearing corsets as fashion is finding things to go under them that don't make you look like a ballerina. Sure, a longline corset looks really good with a very poofy skirt, but it's a bit overdone.
