Tag: Dress

Recently, I went to a restaurant for a quick review piece with my husband. I was looking around and noticed something pretty unusual. My husband and I had silently co-opted some of the styles of the wealthy in our area. It wasn’t an overt or even conscious choice. It just kind of happened w...

I often visit the museum for workshops or exhibitions and was reminded of ‘The Royal School of Needlework — From Crown to Catwalk’ which featured The Red Dress when Erie asked the question. Inspired by the British artist Kirstie Macleod, the dress started as a project seeking to...

In the dynamic world of fashion, where trends come and go, dress designing plays a pivotal role in driving innovation. The fusion of creative design and an understanding of fashion trends has a profound impact on shaping the way we perceive and embrace style. Let’s delve into the fas...

Sadly, I cannot share any insights about my personal wedding dress designs since I have never actually designed any garments.  However, when I was approximately 14 years old, I did sew a long dress for myself, using a pattern, to wear to a wedding that I was attending as a guest. That was th...

Distinguishing the truly creative from the mundanely mediocre is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Or, more accurately, a needle in a pile of other needles, if one were to adopt the dry cleaner’s window as the ultimate litmus test for sartorial creativity. Yes, you read that right. The l...

Whether we’d like to admit it or not, what we wear every day speaks volumes about our personalities and how we’d like to be perceived by others, whether consciously or subconsciously. People have been dressing-up in certain ways for millennia in order for them to convey things about them...