Today I finished a fun changeable silk dupioni strapless dress, with a weird and modern elastic waistband. It is hard to find good strapless dress patterns (can't really replicate JCrew's fab designs), but this one was okay for the empire waist style:
The fabric was a scrap from my mom's collection, and I only had a yard or so. I made a variation on the paler pink dress on the pattern picture, and added the black elastic waistband. You see so much elastic on dresses these days; often the wifebeater tank and floral woven skirt, which I can't really see myself pulling off. But I thought it would be fun and give the dress a little more length in the bodice:
The skirt is gathered, and I added some black lace at the hem to tie in the black waistband. I know black doesn't technically go with the purple/orange changeable, but I imagined wearing black accessories with the dress so I think it works. It feels sort of like a take on a 1950's poufy party dress!
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