You're so right about that! This can be just about as fancy as you want it to be - depending on the fabric and whatever jewelry/accessories you wear with it, without needing to compromise on comfort. Great comparison to the tea gown!

Yes; we need the tea gowns, dresses looking nice but washable and feeling comfy like a nightgown...

@@annasolovyeva1013 Amen! About 15 years ago it was a common/popular find in my area for stores to have stylish yet comfy dresses made out of swimsuit-like material. I had (I think I lost it) one such dress that was a deep V-neck with material that draped from the neckline to do a faux-wrap around the waist. It had a little of a high waistline that hugged just enough and it had a tea-length handkerchief hem. It had a large abstract floral print of coral pink, almost a mint blue-green, white, and black. I wore that dress so so much because it was so pretty and so comfy! I love the modern "variations" of the original tea gowns.

Oh my pancakes and syrup!!! My thoughts exactly!!!

The gray and black dress is in the thumbnail of the video, so I knew which fabric she'd pick. Literally.

Haven't watched the video yet, but I'm guessing it's box pleats following the stripe edges.

This technique reminds me of the Oscar de la Renta rainbow stripe dress. It's mostly white with free spaces for rainbow chiffon, it's lovely!

It really does look like a chiton, doesn't it!

Well, the first one does. The v neck ruins the effect.

I can’t express how much I love this comment 😍

Obsessed w this comment

She reminds me of laurel and hardy, the 3 stooges and harpo marx.....all at the same time.

I'm 66yr. and did the same as you did making my own clothing! She is funny isn't she!

I’m 49 and used to do the same thing 😊

They kind of remind me of Wizard of Oz. haha

Make the centre pleat seams gradually longer than the outer pleat seams and you'll mimick the shaping of a waist corset to emphasis the hourglass. Say 2.5 to 3" seam at side waist to 5 or 6" seam at the centre, lozenge shape over the tummy. This will probably help the shortwaisted be more comfortable too.

Came to make the same comment, so I definately rhink you're right😅

Yes, the math is actually super intuitive when you realize measure the part you want to have showing vs the entire thing. It also seems (have not tried yet) fairly flexible even if you have a specific measurement in mind and the stripes don't come out evenly, you can make the part showing a little narrower... Say you have big 2" stripes and you want to end up with 5" total. You need at least 3 stripes showing because 2"*2=4" would be too small. So you actually want 5 inches/3 stripes = 1+2/3" (calculator, yay) per stripe, or in other words for each stripe to be 1/3" narrower than the original 2". Since we are sewing on both sides of each stripe, you need to remove half of that, aka 1/6", from each side. So when you fold and sew, instead of sewing on the stripe boundary you would actually sew 1/6" into the color you want to show, making that color narrower. This should only really matter if you have really wide stripes so that you have fewer stripes total, otherwise the amount per stripe that would have to be different is going to be so small that it's essentially just rounding error.

I also have a whole bunch of ideas for getting more shaping by sewing a different length for each stripe. Or, a bit insane, if you had really wide stripes you could make those seams into fisheye darts.......I wouldn't want to do that with more than about 8 darts in front and 8 in back and really even that would be a lot, but still, the possibilities...

​@kray3883 after I read that my mind said Thanks, maths isn't my favourite area of interest. By the time I opened the comment box the lazy part of my brain went: count the seams for the pleats, how much narrower does the piece need to be, now divide that by number of seams and halve that. Each deeper pleat removesthe same amount from each side so 4mm becomes 2mm on the seamline. I bet that's a more complicated equation but it gets my head around what needs removing from where. Lol

@@michellebyrom6551 It's exactly the same, actually! You can replace "stripe" with "seam" in my post and it's the same math in the same order. I think the main difference might be if you're thinking about what is taken away or what is left behind.

If she had something like satin.....making larger sewn down pleats could be so great.

I agree about the cowl neckline, I thought she was gonna go with that type of neckline as she sort of had it draped that way on her dress form.

If you sew the tapering on the inside flat it would be either two colors, or be twisted to the left or right. You could go with the two colored (lots of work, godspeed) and either be ok with that OR cover it with a piece of fabric in a complimentary color, like a waistband. Or just a big belt. You would have to pretty up every seam of course, so it doesn’t look like the inside of a dress, but that’s just a little extra work.

I write instruction notes as I work for precisely this reason, Future me is very grateful to past me for the clear instructions.

Exactly. Instructions or a video....great idea to document

@SuperLollipopKitty right? I read gone with the wind because I got so tired of that snobbery, and because Carol Burnette did a skit making a dress from curtains. 8 hours in (audiobook) the war was over and I was ready to wrap up but no, there was 8 more hours. Let me save you the 16 hours of your life you will never get back.... Rhett loves scarlet, who loves Ashley, who loves Melanie. Scarlet doesn't realize she "cares" for Rhett until she's spent the entire book being horrible to him and crushing his spirit. By that time he no longer "gives a damn". There's the entire story for you.... 🙄🙄🙄

I was totally embarrassed during a party game when I didn't know the Bronte sisters.... And I'm very well read. I knew the books, but not the authors' names.

That was my thought too.

I prefer the greater contrast in the black and grey one. An equivalent fabric in tones of crimson, or royal blue or emerald would also work very nicely.

Yeah, but you'll still need to do the same amount of work and much more fabric xD

Did that machine come with a manual? There's some light reading for you.... with some scrap fabric to practice on. ;-) Eh, I should follow my own advice LOL