It was really hard to get the right arch onto sellotape-so it took awhile, lol! I was also going to make the neckline straight and strapless, but it didn't really look like a girl bottle (if that makes sense, lol!) so I made it a sweetheart neckline. I meant to put the feathery stuff on top, but it the end I decided not to (except for the neckline and where it meets the skirt), because it was really thick and made the proportion was wrong. Sometimes there were lots of kinks, which made it hard to smooth down, and it would keep twisting. It's made out of this feathery, silky yarn, and I wound it across the top of the bottle. (MW note: I love this step by step thought process, outlined by Lucy! AND, this is way cooler than any fashion show I've been to.) "And I kept changing the top part too. I found tons of great stuff, but I didn't need to use a lot of it! =) So I looked up the directions to a second hand store called Savemart which was about a 45 min walk away. I had a few other possible skirt pieces (like the bubble skirt shown) that I finished but didn't really look that good, lol! The skirt I ended up with is sort of princess style, which is great coz all of my other attempts looked shapeless! I had to superglue it onto the bottle, so I used gloves! I started the bottom of the dress later than the top because I couldn't find any usable purple fabric in town. long, especially compared to her head! I think the hardest thing for me in the end, was deciding what type of dress I'd make-I'm really indecisive. "I know my dress doesn't look that flash-especially since you get invited to Fashion Week (by Vivienne Tam no less!), lol, but I am so glad that I finally finished something that I've started-in a craftish way! And I'm really sorry that Violet's neck looks really. (MW note: I love Zoolander! Amazing movie. "And it's also remake of the Violet on the Runway cover, as well as being a crossover with Zoolander- so it's kind of like 3 in 1. "I designed a (violet) dress for a Coke bottle-because your books are about the fashion industry! (Which was actually pretty silly of me since I know next to nothing about sewing, and my lack of designing ability!) I googled it to see if there were any examples I could work on and found this, which is pretty funny: I'm going to quote her email so that the photos can be explained.
entered the big Violet contest in an incredibly original way.
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