The Occasion Outfits: My Year 12 Graduation Dress

The Three Sisters (My fabulous dress and I are in the middle, Maddy on the left, Steph on the right).

The other big occasion that I designed for and Mum created was my year 12 valedictory dinner. It was formal dress code, and by the time it came around (it was at the opposite end of the year to formal), I decided to go in a complete different direction. As my (middle) sister put it: "you look like a Stepford Wife". I went a bit (a lot?) 50's when designing this. I'd wanted a dress this style for years, and this was my chance.   

Maddy (the middle sister) & I.
My dress had a tule petticoat that I made to make it foof  out a bit, in true 50's style. I wanted more foof, but I ran out of tule. It doesn't look too foofed in this photo, but once i got moving in it it did :)

Since it was made, I've lost a fair bit of weight, and a couple of weeks ago I had to wear it again for another formal event. This was the most recent formal dress I'd bought/had made, and therefore was closest to fitting me (all my other dresses hang off me in really unflattering ways now). Even so, we still had to re-fit it. Due to the style, it had to have a couple of inches taken in at the waist-a nipped-waist dress couldn't have a poorly fitting midsection. So I removed the zip from the back, and mum very cleverly took it in in the necessary places using the area around the zip (it's quite a bulky fabric so we couldn't do it at the side seams). It fitted perfectly again. I love this dress, A LOT, and I want many more like it. But foofier.