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white striped sundress

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I made this dress a few months ago but am just getting around to posting, now that it’s too chilly to actually wear the thing… The fabric is from an awesome vintage sheet that I had sitting around my collection for about a year, and I based the pattern on a dress my mom made me many years back.

I love the fabric because it’s cool and breezy, but not so thin that it’s transparent. The fit is fabulous and I don’t feel the need to wear a bra with it (cha ching!)

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It’s pretty simple, no pockets or anything. I used an invisible zipper, so the stripes look really great from behind too.

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vintage French sundress

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One day back in early March I was strolling around Gare du Nord in Paris, waiting for a friend to get in from London. I wound up coming up on a shop selling reused goods, and in a bin on the street I found the most fabulous vintage duvet cover. I mean, this is the kind of fabric we all dream about, right? Now, it was freezing cold and I was living out of a 32 L backpack, but I HAD to have this fabric. And it HAD to be a sundress. I wore it with tights and a tan long sleeved shirt for a loooong time.

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So the duvet was €3. I bought thread and elastic at another street market in a town near Limoges for €1,80. So the dress cost about $7! Now here’s the tricky part: I had to sew it all by hand! I’d never sewn something like this by hand, and all those stitches across the bodice for the elastic…. Well, what else was I going to do?!

This dress has been a great souvenir. The materials are all from France, and I remember details of each purchase. I remember doing that green stitching on the skirt while on a train from Barcelona to Madrid. I got those awesomely comfortable shoes that look great with the dress in Munich. I now I can wear it in New Orleans!

The pockets match up with the skirt pattern, so they don’t stand out. They are the perfect size for holding a beer bottle, leaving you free to wave your hands up in the air if you happen to attend a student festival in Krakow… just in case!

These pictures were taken in September at the Old Spanish Fort on Bayou St. John in New Orleans.
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sunny flower dress

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I thought up this design on the looooong drive back from Burning Man–there’s nothing like 2,200 miles alone to get the creative juices flowing. The fabric is a quilting cotton from Joann’s (called “daydream believer,” just in case you need something to hum while looking at the photos).

My favorite part is that I don’t feel the need for a bra with this.

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The dress has inset pockets and an invisible zipper, which is a little short and therefore a bit of a struggle to take the dress off. Oh well.

The photos were taken at the airport, right by all those signs saying “no stopping or waiting or parking!” Yeah, I showed them!

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