Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Creating Your Autumn Wardrobe

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You can have the latest Valentino runway look at a fraction of the cost . The red dress was shown for the Autumn 2010 runway. If you would like to create your own version, try a pattern from Butterick, Vogue or McCalls (center and right) to design your own red dress . Don’t know how to make bias ruffles to add onto a pattern without? Here are the directions:

vintage sewing.info/1920s/26-fcm/fcm-07.html

As for the wool for your dress, most fabric store won’t have wool in for a couple of months –try Trim Fabric –trimfabric.com . The company has red wool on sale for 9.95 a yard. For under $30 you could create this dress.

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