One Last Prom Dress

I know, I know, enough already. I wanted you to see the last one, anyway.
Madison has come to me several times in the past, for alterations and for the (in)famous 'Mini Beauty and the Beast' dress.
This is her Senior Year and this is her dress.
She'd found one she liked on-line but, as is the nature of the business, all the site would tell her was where to go to buy the dress, not how much, (each store will have their own inflated price, apparently.) nor what sizes and colors.

I said I would give it a shot. As it often happens, after I agree to do the job, numerous 'incidentals' pop up, like; hot gluing rhinestones down the front, an anatomically impossible back 'drop' and more super-extra push-up padding. I still didn't get the back to be as low as she'd wanted. I tried to explain that the curve of the waist wrap couldn't go any lower and be still connected, aesthetically or physically, to the front. If I had made the front bodice longer, to her hips, maybe. The angle was almost impossible to bias drape as it was; the back piece was shaped like a fat 'S'. Add to that, fitting in an invisible zipper that didn't catch on the fabric was no picnic. The fish-tail is just a long bias tube that is stitched in the whole length of the back skirt seam and then gathered into the hip yoke and allowed to drape free.


Sometimes I have to start out with two simple questions;
"How is it going to stay up?"
"When can I talk to your Mom?"