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Posted by Laura.Marschel on November 27, 2007, 4:54 pm
Hi all, I am trying to copy/alrter a dress I have. I love this dress
but it is too tight in the hips so I made a muslin copy. I have been
studying the original dress and I think I did a good job adjusting the
hips and the skirt fits well. I am just having trouble getting the
bust correct though. The dress has an empire waist (that's what it's
called when it's right below the bust, right?) and the attached
strappy bodice is tight across the bust but gapes towards my armpits.
I have tried taking measurements of the pieces and I just can't quite
wrap my brain around how to tighten the part by my armpits part and
loosen the part by the bust. If this doesn't make sense I can try to
add pictures of my actual dress tonight but so far this is the closest
I could find on the web: http://www.friendsofpr.com/sewsteph/S4577front.JPG
Like this dress, the front bodice on mine is formed by two pieces- one
over the left bust and one over the right- joined with a vertical
center seam. Unlike this one, my dress has a completely horizontal
seam where the bodice meets the skirt and there is just a skirt
instead of that contrasting waist band. Also, my dress has a dart on
each bust piece and is gathered some on either side of that dart.
If this doesn't make sense, like I said I can post pic of my problem
but I can't stop thinking about it so I wanted to get it out there.
Any help woul dbe greatly appreciated!
-Laura
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