At long last, ufo 2 has been found and can finally be shown off!
This dress was given to me by my boss when it really began to fall apart.
Someone used it in a short-run production that featured zombies, which made this a perfect dress at the time, but after that it was really unusable as a costume. Once it can’t be washed or dry-cleaned, it loses usability.
I’m not sure whether its a real 20s dress, but I’m pretty sure that’s the era it was supposed to be from.
Alas, I can’t show you it in its complete form, as I tried to work on this dress previous to starting this blog.
But here are the parts of the dress, and what I’ll be using to fix it up.
First up is the main part of the dress, made of a deep, deep blue velvet. It’s a very lightweight velvet, which is soft and nice ad well worn.
Personally, I don’t find this dress flattering.
You see, I have this thing called a stomach, and my stomach likes to be fed, and simultaneously doesn’t like crunches. Trust me, I’m working on talking to it about this.
But I like wide skirts, the twirly effect! This dress is more like a sheath, with a little bit of swing at the bottom.
It also comes too low at the top, when I had tried it on with the original lace top, and it is a very long dress on me.
I’m contemplating options, if you couldn’t tell.
Here is the original top, made of what looks to me like a cotton lace. It had aged to such a lovely yellow-brown color, but I assume the original color was a yellow-beige.
But it nearly fell away as I cut it from its hold on the velvet body. It was ready for relief.
Finally, this is the top I’m planning to use to rework this dress. It’s a very white polyester lace top.
Remember my Belle mock 2? That was the original shirt I was going to use, but I snapped it up for that project when I couldn’t at all find this one. But a recent discovery brought this one back to the light!
I’ll probably not end up working on this for awhile, but I thought it was high time to show it to you guys!