black lace dress

Spiffy

black lace dress

Over the holidays…way back during the Christmas holidays…. I made a few spiffy and fun things to wear and this dress was one of them. I didn’t have a black lace dress in my closet so I set out to find some interesting lace. That I did. It’s a little hard to describe this lace except to say that it is kind of “wooly”. Weird, I know.  If you look closely at my pictures you may be able to see what I am talking about.

The texture is somewhat unrefined so I thought that I would pair it with a satin. Odd for me at anytime because I loathe satin. LOATHE I say! It’s shiny and wrinkly…yuck.  I chose a grey satin…that looks more like a steely blue under the lace and I really think that it allows the lace to shine.

black lace dress

  I choose McCalls 7085…  the type of practical dress pattern that we should all have in our pattern stash.  I both lined and underlined my dress with the satin. Instead of turning the hem, I decided to trim it around the lace design. This unrefined finish felt just right with the unrefined texture of the lace and gives the dress added interest.

black lace dress

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   My pattern matching certainly wasn’t on point for this dress but can we just marvel at what this wavy lace design does for the curves. Heeello! They hit in all the right places. Bonus!

black lace dress

Well…that’s two posts in one week for me. Very unusual, but I have a back log of makes that have yet to be posted and thought that it would be best to get this up before it is completely out of season.

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