Picking up my dress…

The lady doing my sleeves called me this evening, and said they were done.

Well, technically, done a second time.
I had called her yesterday, and they were done then, too. Yes, they were done, but after I tried on the dress at her house, I couldn't lift my arms very high. It would have made dancing (the proper way) virtually impossible.

The problem was that the scarf that came wtih the dress, wasn't wide enough to accomodate a moving arm, but that was also in part due to the cut of the straps on the dress.

So this morning she set about look for matching material. At first her idea was to add a slit down the length of the sleeve, to the point where I can lift my arm, and then back it with material, making it, well, she called it a "cathedral window". Then she thought, well, scrap the whole sleeve except the pattern at the bottom, and make whole new sleeves out of new material. When she called me earlier today to say she found some material that looked close in color but was textured slightly different than what the rest of my dress was, I noted that I had thought of another idea that may work, and could we try it?

My idea was, with the slit that had been cut into one of the sleeves already to see how much room I needed for my arm to move freely, to cut away the material from the bottom of that slit, slope the cutting up toward where the sleeve is attached to the bodice, and leave just a length at the bottom of the arm hole attached.. leaving a "window" where my shoulder is exposed. It leaves the sleeves attached, but with no material over my shoulder, my arm should be able to move freely. (I'm not a seamstress so I have no clue what terminology I should be using in my description of this)... She said she'd try it.

She called while I was driving over to Josh's office with dinner, to let me know that she was done with the modifications. She has to leave tomorrow morning to go to Virginia, so I'll be leaving my house a little earlier than normal to stop by her house, try on the dress again and pay her if my idea worked and looks good, and take the dress with me.

We'll see how close she was able to come to matching my description to her of my idea.

Statistics

This page has been viewed 0 times
Page rendered in 0.0788 seconds
Total Entries: 706
Total guests: 2
Total anonymous users: 0
Most Recent Visitor on: 08/05/2025 05:48 pm
The most visitors ever was 186 on 09/09/2005 09:57 pm

Referrers