Transforming Cinderella Dress

Thursday, May 21, 2015

So I just wanted to post this GIF of the transforming Cinderella dress I made for an elementary school production. I am very proud of it! 

It was amazing how little information I could find on the internet about trick dresses like this, I guess you don't reveal your secrets! Anyway, I used magnets at the shoulder and side seams. The dress is all one piece, sewn together in strategic layers. It was quite an adventure and it worked really well, I think! 

-Madame T

The Stays

Friday, October 21, 2011

Actually, I've finished the stays. !!! I knowww!!!! But I haven't taken any pictures of them and I haven't posted these in-progress pics yet so I thought I would. Hopefully I can take some really awesome (read: not iPhone) pictures of them soon.

Here's the front:

And the side. My face was rather derpy so I cropped it.

And the best one of the lot, the back:

Gotta love that spiral lacing. Even if it's a little wonky in these pictures.

I will totally post a real, detailed post about this, I promise.

In other news, I was the lead in Cinderella of Loreland at my school, for which I made this:

It's a goodwill skirt with a bajillion patches added. It was like, freehand patchwork. Took forever. But it was very effective. Obviously that's not the top I wore. Hopefully, more on Cinderella later, too. I also made my ballgown!

-Madame Taylor