Today is my daughter’s birthday…. Happy birthday, sweets! So I really wanted to feature her for today’s post. Luckily she hasn’t started uni yet and she agreed to pose for me.
She’s wearing a dress I made about three years ago, inspired again by Vivienne Westwood; this time a cocktail dress featured in her Spring/Summer 2006 collection. I found a 1m remnant of silk at my favourite fabric store and with a bit of design magic managed to get this dress out of it! I remember telling a friend about my 1m dress during the making and she inquired whether it was going to be backless, or possibly even frontless! but I think it’s turned out a very demure dress! I used every last scrap of fabric, and there wasn’t even enough to use for the backing of the belt, I had to use a bit of lining fabric for that purpose. So I joke that this is my $10 cocktail dress, and with the amount of use that both my daughter and I have got out of it brings it down to less than a dollar per wear, so it’s been a goodie. Another little fact that makes me laugh about this dress is that the shade card was still attached to the remnant when I bought it, which revealed it to be a colour named “swamp” Takes away from the glamour quotient somewhat, no?! Still brings a smile to my face now…
But I love this colour, so does my daughter and we both look good in the dress, she considerably more so being gorgeous and young…
Details:
Dress; own design, green (swamp!) silk
Shoes; from Hobbs
Photo from Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 2006
Incredible! The dress and your daughter are gorgeous (of course, both are because of you)!
This is a gorgeous dress. Happy Birthday to your daughter.
When I saw the first couple of photos, I thought to myself, "Cool, now let's see that dress she's talking about". Oh! That's the dress, and that's her daughter! I thought they were pictures from a magazine.
It's a fantastic dress, Carolyn. And, what a beautiful woman your daughter is.
Happy Birthday to your daughter! The dress is beautiful as is your daughter.
Your daughter is gorgeous and looks gorgeous in this dress. I am so amazed how you can just design things yourself. I need a pattern.
Happy birthday to your daughter.
I meant to tell you, too, that I just did my first "What I'm Wearing" post, and I'd love to know what you think and if you think I should do more of those. Thanks.
Happy Birthday Cassie. You look lovely, so grown up. Clever Mum too
The dress is very gorgeos, love the design and the color. And a lot of compliments to your daughter =)
It's a gorgeous dress. I love the color and the way the fabric flows. It's clear to see the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Your daughter resembles you a great deal. I think you are both stunning.