I doubted I would be able to top last year's $26 prom dress, and so far I haven't. This year's dress came from a bridal outlet (....where we may or may not have been looking for a big white dress for somebody else...). My little sister referred me to this place, and I must say I was quite impressed. They had a plethora of beautiful bridal gowns (an absolute plethora I say!), and probably twice as many formal dresses in every color of the rainbow.
I knew before we even got in the car what color dress we were going to come home in...even though we tried lots and lots of things like this:
and this:
Looks like she didn't like this one much. Nice face, dere.
They were very pretty, but didn't scream "SCREAMAPILLAR" at me...
This one did.
Toxic Lime Green.
The gown only had a halter type strap on top, so bolero time again. She chose pink for the bolero to match the ruffle at the hem, and did all the beading herself. The petticoats underneath are just a bridal petticoat with the top layer pinned up to expose the tulle. We did add one yard of gathered pink tulle over the white layers to add a little more pink (and we only attached it with SAFETY PINS!!!).
The original dress was also backless with just the corset strapping baring quite an expanse of flesh, so Mommy had to fix it some. I just pinned a piece of tissue paper to the back of the dress to create a pattern for the area I needed to fill. Cut two from matching fabric (that was the hard part, actually), sewed it together, turned it right side out, and hand stitched it down the right hand side of the dress back. I put in hooks on the left side to keep it in the right location, but the lacing pretty much held it in place.
Unfortunately, when laced up it looked kinda bunchy, but the bolero covered most of it so it didn't look too bad. At least she passed the dress code and didn't look scandalous....
At the end of the evening, she managed to accessorize with some stuff that didn't quite match:
YEA NOT PROM QUEEN!!! The sash for queen was white, and that would have just been too normal looking.....
Congratulations, Screamapillar, for winning 2nd attendant, you are so completely awesome.
And in case you didn't notice.....her date had a very unique boutoniere... but that (and her matching shoes) are fodder for another post...
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