The bodice is cut from a contemporary Vogue pattern and the skirt is from this 1935 evening gown pattern.
It was this evening when I learned that Charles Kleibacker had passed on yesterday. As I commented on Threads: I was honored to have one of my clients bring him to my dressmaking shop here in Columbus 4 years ago and I since talked with him at The Columbus Museum of Art where he had been curating.
I meant to look him up again not long ago and now am sorry I hadn't. I had thought about him the two days when I was building this gown, particularly when modifying the bias part of the bodice.
The sewing world is a lesser place without him and his positive attitude. 'Good things' he would say to me at the end of our phone conversation...
Photo by Cynthia DeGrand
2 comments:
Congratulations on your win; so well-deserved!! This dress is absolutely stunning, and I recognized it as yours from the first glimpse on Threads. Fantastic!!
Beautiful! Which Vogue pattern did you use? was it a altered V8578? I've been looking for a pattern like that after falling in love with a Marc Bouwer dress:
http://www.bluefly.com/Marc-Bouwer-GlamIt-malachite-satin-deep-v-halter-gown/cat60019/304543101/detail.fly
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