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Feb. 15th, 2007 09:13 amSome of you may remember a post I made a while back about my trouble finding new clothes. I haven't fully resolved the problem, but I did hire a seamstress to make me a dress. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evalerie suggested that I talk to one of her neighbors who makes clothes, and I ended up buying a dress. It wasn't cheap, $70 for work, materials and sales tax, plus another $27 for making the pattern from one of my old dresses and for coming over here to show me fabric samples and take measurements. The pattern can be reused, so the next dress should only be $70, but I still feel like I've been extravagant.
It's a little weird to have a new dress in a bright color, too. This one is turquoise (or near enough. I'm not sure that's the name the color had in the sample catalog). I've gotten used to simply accepting whatever color I could get in my size. A lot of my dresses are maroon because that seems to end up as an overstock a lot. I've also got some pale pink stuff because it was the best of a bad set of options. The last dress I seriously considered buying was made in four colors, maroon, black, brown and pine green. By the time I got online to try to order it, only black and brown were left, and brown was backordered.
Anyway, if you're in my area and want to get a dress made, I'd definitely recommend the woman I used. E-mail me if you want her contact information. She only took a week and a half to do my dress (and I suspect that most of that was spent working on other projects that were ahead of the dress in her queue).
evalerie suggested that I talk to one of her neighbors who makes clothes, and I ended up buying a dress. It wasn't cheap, $70 for work, materials and sales tax, plus another $27 for making the pattern from one of my old dresses and for coming over here to show me fabric samples and take measurements. The pattern can be reused, so the next dress should only be $70, but I still feel like I've been extravagant.It's a little weird to have a new dress in a bright color, too. This one is turquoise (or near enough. I'm not sure that's the name the color had in the sample catalog). I've gotten used to simply accepting whatever color I could get in my size. A lot of my dresses are maroon because that seems to end up as an overstock a lot. I've also got some pale pink stuff because it was the best of a bad set of options. The last dress I seriously considered buying was made in four colors, maroon, black, brown and pine green. By the time I got online to try to order it, only black and brown were left, and brown was backordered.
Anyway, if you're in my area and want to get a dress made, I'd definitely recommend the woman I used. E-mail me if you want her contact information. She only took a week and a half to do my dress (and I suspect that most of that was spent working on other projects that were ahead of the dress in her queue).
