The many many stages of making an evening dress

Here's my mom's sketch from last spring

In order to get the open back done, we needed to do another dress under the silk chiffon one.

Here I'm trying out the silk chiffon fabric and ribbons for the dress.

For the dress under we used white "denim" silk that we dyed to suit the top lavender chiffon

Dry fabric turned out to a bit pinkish

Before cutting the silk chiffons, we did a test piece out of old fabric 

(which I later took to make a blouse out of it)

The cutting of the silk chiffons

 The first lavender layer of the upper part of the final dress

The pieces of under dress ready to be marked with the marking paper

then the yellow marks are emphasized with thread

 and only after that sewn together with thread

soon to be ready for the first fitting!

after the first fitting

the "under" dress sewn together and ironed

testing the model

 putting the pieces together

And the almost ready dress!!!