I started with the idea of a black party dress, that's short from the front and long from the back. Chiffon is an easy material to work with, and it added a kind of flowy feeling to it. Underneath is a short black tricot dress. The top part is a kind of a corset model, several parts together. I like it because it's so fitted and interesting. The simple tricot skirt was easy to make. For the chiffon part, I put the dress on a mannequin, wrapped the chiffon around the waist and cut the hem short from the front. Then I used a sewing machine and added the chiffon hem to the dress using an elastic string.
I'm really happy with it, it is just as I thought it would be, and fits me really well. The chiffon hem was complicated and I could have done the attachment to the dress better.
We made a high-waisted layered skirt. It was challenging because of all the layers and steps. Both of us had a chiffon layer on the top. One of the skirts needed more layers because the underwear would've shown through. The black skirt had many layers of tullé to make it voluminous. Both of the skirts have an elastic band on the waist. One thing we like about the skirts is the roll-seam that we made with the searger on the hem. It's more suitable for evening wear than day time wear. Overall, we like the skirts, they look very well made and pretty. <3
