“Thrift wedding dress makeover" Part IV “ Few” adjustments 🤪👌

After the dresses were bought we run home to try them on.👯‍♀️ 25 minutes later the first thing that we did, was to chop those pearls and sequins off the dress.😈 A piece will always look cheap with too many details. And the dress had too much of everything🤯 : an open heart-shaped back, a semi-cathedral train, leg of mutton sleeves, a lace trim, pearls and sequins everywhere…. I mean…. It is definitely not what we were looking for. We were opting for an elegant dress a-là Grace Kelly, that’s why “FEW” adjustments were needed to be done😌🙏. Why do I emphasize on the word “FEW” in this sentence, as the final gown only had one piece left from the initial dress…. Try to guess which one😂. After a thrift shop => fabric store Our next destination was poetic Montmartre🌈 with its fascinating view💔, charming🎨 and colorful streets, 👨‍🎨gifted artists👩‍🎨 and an enormous fabric market🤤. I have tried to simplify the skirt with embroidered “holes”, but the only option was to take it off and to design a new one. So the mission was to find a fabric that would be the same color ton😬 as the dress and we found🎉 an Italian😎 Silk Satin at 29€/meter. So, what is Satin? First and foremost, it is not a raw material. Satin is a type of weave, constructed by floating several warp yarns across the weft. Did you know that the word “Satin” comes from the Arabic name for the the Chinese port Quanzhou, where this weave first originated over 2,000 years ago? 🤷‍♀️And that the original satin was woven out of silk threads, and at the time, the cultivation silk was widespread, so even peasant women used silk to master the craft of satin weaving ? 🤷‍♂️ More interesting infos about satin you can find on our Facebook page.🤪👌 #Dinvents / #Dicrafts