My Version of Roland Mouret Afyon dress

Hello

This was not the best fabric for sewing this dress, but I love the color, so I gave it a try.

To work with this fabric was not easy, I even got headache. But I love the result, and I am a pink lover (^.^)

I decided to sew the skirt differently because I already have the pattern. (ROLAND MOURET Aspen Pencil Skirt back)

I got into trouble after having the whole dress sew. I started to see small details that make me crazy, and then I decided to take apart the back of the dress, and re-measure. The problem is the stretch of the dress, it stretchs in all directions, you can be off for 0,5 cm, and I can see it, I hate it.

Another issue is my sway back, specially when the fabric is so stretchy in all directions

Roland Mouret Afyon Dress

 Back
 Front


My Roland Mouret version dress


 Back
Front
 Nearly done
 
Back maniqui

The back of the dress was really nice on the maniqui, but not on me because of my sway back plus the stretch of the fabric,  so apart from the interfacing and fixing the length,

The back of the dress on me

I did have to reinforce the zipper with bias binding.  I normally buy Riri zippers, but this time I did try YKK zipper, I didn't like, I will keep using Riri zipper for my following projects.





Also the hem


 Result:




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