The Fake Dress

Before embarking on this journey, I decided to be uncharacteristic, and take things slowly. We bought some material to practice the pattern on before getting too far.  The pattern books call this a muslin, but our fake dress wasn't made of muslin, but cheap polyester dress fabric.

The tricks we needed to solve were how to put all four patterns together into one workable dress.

The fake dress back

Close up of back with ribbon tie

Close up of top

The fake dress top

The straps need tweaking.
The dress isn't lined, so it's pretty see-through. We don't intend a risque wedding!

This dress looks nothing like the actual dress. The fabric is so different, the lack of lining, and the back are all very different.

What we have so far is the possible top, and the length of the train.

Sent pictures to Stephanie and she didn't burst into tears, so that was a good sign.