Hello Hive
Happy new day, friends. I want to share with you the making process of this simple and very much needed outfit I made for myself.
They often say that you can't go wrong in a red outfit and that whenever you are invited to an occasion and are unsure of what to wear, a red-colored outfit is often the best choice. That may be some true sayings there, but for me, I feel more comfortable in black-colored outfits. Except for parties or a birthday ceremony, I prefer to wear black for most of my outfits.
Black color doesn't attract much attention, like the way you will get spotted in a crowd of people while wearing red. Some specific colors are really a must-have for ladies.
Keeping a wardrobe that has these important colors can make you feel safe whenever there is an outing, including impromptu ones.
I wish to have a wardrobe with at least a black dress and red, blue, white, yellow, or golden colors, inclusive of nude colors. With these, I can take cover at any event.
Just like it has been the norm recently, I have been sewing different colors of outfits for myself because of choir activities. Since I never have any of these colors in my clothes, I need to continuously sew new choir uniforms for now until I have the basic colors that will go round.
Last week Sunday we were to appear in a smart black dress, which of course I didn't have. As the lead choir that will take the ministration, I was forced to purchase a black fabric to sew this dress. I had spent some $3 to purchase the fabric, zipper, and thread, which was what I needed to sew the dress.
This has to be a simple dress because I don't have so much time to spend on sewing machines these days due to farm work.
I started with cutting the lower part of the dress using my bodice measurements.
Then for the upper part, I avoided sewing a bustier that will require more expenses for purchasing horsehair for padding the bust area of the outfit, yet I want to have a smart, fitted dress around the bust line.
The simple trick I had used was to introduce dart manipulation.
Instead of bustiers or corsets, one can use dart manipulation methods to make a fitted dress.
For this, you just take out your bodice measurements on the clothes.
Introduce darts in different locations.For this I used the bust and waist dart.
Make sure to iron the dart points properly so that they won't be thick and bulging.
Once that is done, the dress will be really smart, as if it were a bustier with padding.
I had to add a net yoke to my dress to enhance its looks. I had purchased the least quality black fabric to save cost. After all, it is not about how expensive the clothes we put on are but about dressing nice to fulfill purpose and impart lives.
Sewing parts where I turned the necklines with bias first.Sewed it to the dress.
Created a little keyhole at the back for design purposes.
Cutting out some more net lace I have used them as my sleeves here
Another design I added was a flare at the waistline, which gave the dress a more gorgeous form rather than a simple straight dress.
Stitching up the entire piece I sewed a beautiful, functional , smart, and simple dress.
Although there was more to the choir uniform, and we were meant to wear an extra African print jacket on it, I couldn't afford that and had to let it pass since we were permitted to appear in black dresses while the others that have jackets could put them on.
Here is our beautiful choir, and everyone is colorfully dressed during our ministration.
