Saturday, April 26, 2014

shut up -- vintage wedding dress


Don't even reveal your naivete.  This gorgeous assemblage of virginal lace and hope was not made for a Dr. Seuss character of very lean proportion, as we can see by the photo of the bride. She's a dumpling and a beautiful one.  The dress is A) bias cut and B) stretched with age.  Again, something about that sounds so familiar....
Arlene, of My Sister's Closet fame, insisted the fabric was so fragile it would disintegrate upon touching.  Sure enough, it did.  Now Arlene has instituted a few rules about things that are bias cut, or lace, or old, or not made out of plastic...

 

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