Problem SOLVED!!

Hello!

Okay so I'd been having a bit of a slump with my long black dress, it's been going well, but looking at it I felt that there was something wrong, something not quite...right. Yet I could NOT for the life of me work out what it was, now I thought to myself, I KNOW I'LL BLOG IT!! So there I was, taking photographs of my dress ready to post with the question, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS? And the small hope that you guys could help out when... BAM. My Dad turned round and said, 'I think a V-neck line would look better' ...so I thought to myself, the neckline...the neckline...THE NECKLINE! Oh my, he was so right, it looked so...boring, and old. It needed to be more...va-va-voom so to speak. Looking at it for so long meant I was too sick of it to even realise...so we gave it a go - using a piece of paper to simply block out some of the neckline, shaping it to a V...and wooo-oo. It looks so much bettter. I then showed him the tassled cord I planned to drap on the back...and he suggested I bring it around the front too...I was sceptical, BUT I think it works!!

I really want to know your opinions:

Before:

After:

Now, you see the red ribbon? I'm changing that - to red VELVET ribbon which should arrive this week - and is being put on the green dress also. AND you see those green tassels? Yeah they are GONE. They looked stupid, as though they were just there to be...there. Had no reason and I hated them [why on earth did I put them there in the first place...] BUT I'm replacing them with some different fringy tasselling stuff I shall get...in BLACK. They shall be put on the shoulders [but more of the way round, not just on the top bit of the shoulder] and shall be attached to some red velvet ribbon which I shall make into a choker style necklace :)

Those black tassels will also be put onto the waistcoat, to add more detailing, I am also going to get more of the red tassels and cord for it...

AND after some more brainstorming, I also came up with a new idea for the waistcoat after this comment from Gayle 'you're still playing it too safe Jenny, add something to the waistcoat, something draping perhaps to look more like a curtain' ...so here goes [hope you guys like it] ...I got my Dad to put the waistcoat on, grabbed my last meter of black chiffon and just...placed it randomly on the Waistcoat [all the placings are noted down so I can get it exactly the same again] ....

Look like a draping curtain...? :)

I still need to add the buttons...lol, and also more tasselled detail when I get it ;) the more the better!!

The top still needs to be done also...might have to shove Tedi in just a plain t-shirt for dress rehearsals tomorrow. Oh well... and the skirt...is so PLAIN D: ...so need to add more to that!! EVEN THOUGH...the top has a LOT of detail. So I wanted it to balance it out, but I think some of the black fringing I'm going to get could add some detail without going OTT :)

SO yeah that's what I managed to achieve in the last hour..stopping my Dad from eating his dinner :P lol...his stomach rumbled while I was pinning the chiffon to the waistcoat xD

ANYWAY I'm really happy about this, i'm finally liking the black dress again - phew, and the chiffon on the waistcoat links those two outfits together well as there is chiffon draping on the back of the black dress as well :) wooop.

SO yeah, any suggestions are welcome guyyys :) OH and if you have any interesting ideas for my catwalk that's cool... I think the way my models just stand at the back and walk left/right and be so stereotypical is boring...I'm not sure about Gayle's idea of looking 'cheeky' I was more aiming for quite a royal look, keeping fairly rigid, but not too rigid, nothing that stops the garments moving, but something that means they move by themselves...but I just want the directions they walk and the places they stand to be more original.

Peace outt,

Jennnnnnnnnnnnnnny :)