Terracotta Dress

This is what’s been keeping me busy this week – designing, drafting and making a new dress.

Once I’ve sorted out a pricing structure and a size chart and some other information, I’ll be putting this up for sale, and taking orders.

(Assuming that anybody else thinks it’s a nice dress, and that the credit crunch hasn’t crippled everyone’s dress budgets!)

I’ll be starting off with a range in UK sizes 10-22. Smaller and larger sizes will come later, when I’ve done a bit more work on the proportions of the patterns.

The basic incarnation is designed to fit a B/C cup, but I will eventually be offering larger cup sizes.

It will also be orderable in three different waist lengths. So, if the waist always sits in the wrong place when you buy clothes, you can have the bodice made longer or shorter, for a better fit.

The dress fastens with poppers, with buttons sewn over the top. It comes with a matching sash belt. There are pockets hidden in the side seams. (They don’t add bulk to the hips, because the skirt’s already enormous.)

I’ll be making a few more versions for myself, so that I can build up a picture gallery.

This dress is making me excited and happy every time I look at it across the Shed.

Now I just need to find the people who want to wear it…