The Rest of the Dress Story

Alright,... so my dress has now been to the seamstress several times, gone through several stages of.. well, being a piece of fabric, being sewn, and now being fixed. The boys came late to work (Josh wasn't feeling well, but don't worry, he's better now) and so they picked up my dress for me. When we got home, I took my dress and went to see if now.. somehow.. I can actually wear it!

Go in, put on dress, show everyone, be happy. Simple process. This time I actually made it through a few steps! I got in the dress.. still a little difficult by myself, but manageable. I can wear my dress!!! This dress fitting though, is not quite finished with teaching me about getting dresses from scratch. This lesson says : when they widen the waist to let you in, instead of extending the zipper like 3 inches... you lose the body of the dress! It fits, it looks reasonable, but extending my waist was in reality the last thing the dress needed. It was made perfectly the first time - if the zipper had been long enough to let me in. A few extra inches around your waist isn't the biggest deal ever, aside from the little thought in your head saying.. "but this dress was literally tailored to fit me" .. but once you get past that little detail, you know, its manageable. This detail is a bit more manageable though for people who may be a little more curvaceous* than me. Women who are curvaceous don't need things to be quite as fitted to avoid looking.. like it doesn't have a shape. Lol, I am not one of those women. So, the dress is done, I'm actually wearing it even as I type (it is African wear Friday!). It fits, has a few spare inches around the waist that will simply be part of the dress until I get home and find some willing person to pull in the waist and extend the zipper. :)