Day in the Life: Wedding Dress Designer
My name is Trish Lee and I'm a wedding dress designer.
I've been designing wedding dresses for about two years.
What the dresses try to convey is a Californian,
laid back, relaxed, sort of aesthetic.
At the same time, it's vintage Inspired, but really not like a costume.
Ever since I was a kid. My mom, she'd help me make my clothes
We would go to the fabric store and I would get to pick out the fabric,
and the buttons and the trims.
At the end of the day. I had something so special and different and
I put my heart and soul into it.
Daily responsibilities, I think, vary so much
At a certain period of time I might be focusing on design.
I will start with sketching
and I'll look at fabric, and I'll start sketching different ideas based on what I'm inspired by.
I work with brides, and I do their fittings.
So, before I even see the bride,
in their actually fitting, I will do their pattern drafting.
And when you make a dress, there's a, you know, a blue print, almost,
and you have to alter that blue print, and that pattern to fit
a bride's measurements and different requirements.
I really love to hear brides different stories and how they came to pick,
you know, this dress and
what their wedding is like because I just like knowing what inspires people today.
You do have to work with suppliers and vendors.
So, imagine, you know,
when you're designing a dress, and you're thinking, well, I want to make
a dress in silk crape -- you do have too
find the right crape,
find the right maker of this fabric and,
review samples before you actually order a roll of this fabric.
I actually went to the University of California at Berkeley.
I pursued finance and marketing.
I thought, ultimately, I would work for another, like, maybe fashion retail company at first.
And learn behind the scenes what goes on in merchandising and marketing, and,
and how to operate a fashion business.
I really, highly recommend working for someone else.
You're learning on someone else's time, almost and
you learn from their mistakes, as well as their successes.
The most important skill that I use now is
how to build relationships with people through communicating.
"It's not to rustic..."
"Is it a winery? Is that what you're getting married in?"
"Yes."
"Okay."
"I think this is kind of a good..."
"midway point between something that is,"
"um..not too rustic and, but is still very elegant --"
<br><br>
"and, and it has like a soft train."
Being able to communicate effectively
what your ideas are and what
your vision is for this, I think that's
one of the best skills you can have.
Students in high school should really remember when you care about
the way you present yourself,
It means you'll care about the product that you give them later.
I get to see --
people so happy wearing something I created.
And it means so much to them and I'm apart of their day without really being there.
And --
I think that's the best part --
is something that you created is
bringing somebody happiness.
5 Tips on How to Dress for Your Wedding | A Groom's Guide to Wedding Dress Code
5 Tips on How to Dress for Your Wedding A
Groom's Guide to Wedding Dress Code
[0:00:00]
Hi! I'm Antonio Centeno. I'm the founder of
Real Men Real Style. Today, gentlemen, I'm
going to give you five tips on how to dress
for your wedding. This is basically a groom's
guide, an intro to style. I'm not going to
get into the specifics of each type of dress
code. That's something I've got an entire
video on. I talk about black tie, formal dressing,
semi-formal dressing, white tie, casual weddings.
I know I could get into a lot more of this.
If you are interested, you're getting married
maybe this year, getting married here pretty
soon, go check out Smart Groom Guide. I go
into a lot more detail there. In fact, that's
an entire course that helps a groom not only
with the clothing, but also with the etiquette,
gift guides, all of the little things that
make weddings sometimes a hassle. I try to
give you guys some checklist on the duties,
even some music ideas, gift ideas for all
the groomsmen and everything perhaps involved
in your wedding.
The purpose of this, I'm going to give you
five tips. These are very general, high-level
tips, but they're important because it all
starts with number one, which is be the best-looking
man you can be. Now, there are a lot of things
we can’t control in life. Our face and the
way it's shaped, what we were given, we can't
really change that, but what we can do is
we can work on the packaging. That's one of
the things I talk about at Real Men Real Style
and my other website, A Tailored Suit, other
websites across where I guest post.
I always talk about the purpose of clothing
is to help you be the best man you can be.
It simply gives you a bit of strength. It's
like a piece of armor that fits on you on
your wedding day, the day that you commit
yourself to another person. It's a sign of
respect. That's really what it's about. You're
showing not only respect to your bride. You're
showing respect to everyone, your family,
your friends, everyone who is invested in
you and wants to be a part of your journey.
That's why we're dressing and you want to
put your best foot forward.
In those pictures, for decades, people are
going to look back -- you're going to look
back on those pictures. Your kids are going
to look back on those pictures, your grandkids,
and you want to in a sense be, "Wow! Grandpa
was really handsome. I can see why grandma
went for him." That's the kind of response
you want to get, not something like, "Wow!
I can tell this was in the 1970s," which you
can with some wedding pictures.
Now, point number two, start early and I'm
talking about 90 days out if you can and that's
a bare minimum. The reason you want to start
preparing all of this early, number one, you're
going to save a lot of money if you have time
to start assembling. I own a custom clothier.
One of the most expensive things I would say
when a guy comes in is he needs everything
rushed. Literally he's getting married in
two weeks and we're having to stop everything,
put his order up to the front overnight, that
kind of stuff, which brings in point number
two. It brings in a lot of stress because
if it's not right, then you're going to have
to compromise. You're going to have to find
something that works.
Give yourself time. Give yourself about 90
days. If you can give yourself longer, especially
if you're on a very tight budget, you could
start looking in thrift stores. You can ask
around. You can find things that you're going
to get for pennies on a dollar. You're going
to be able to save a lot of money.
Have a short time frame? Okay, you're probably
going to spend a little bit more, but number
three -- and this goes with giving yourself
time -- practice what you're going to be wearing.
What do I mean by that? Actually wear the
clothing. Now, a little bit more difficult
if you've decided you're going to go with
black tie.
Now, I talk about this in another video and
in my guide to everything, when you should
wear black tie or white tie. A vast majority
of you guys know -- or a morning dress. You're
probably not going to go with that. Maybe
you guys watching me over at London, perhaps
you will, but for most people, the highest
level they're going to go is black tie or
the tuxedo.
I would recommend though thinking about suits.
The great thing about a suit and how it applies
to this point practicing is if you get a dark
suit, you can wear it with other things. All
of a sudden, you can own that suit early.
You can perhaps wear it out to an evening
out of town with your fiancé. You can wear
it around and you can possibly even wear it
to work. You want to be careful. You don’t
want to damage it. Ideally, what you want
is to get a feel for it.
Okay. I'm used to wearing this. What you don’t
want to have is on your wedding day -- and
this is why I think a lot of formal clothing
gets such a bad name, is we only wear it -- and
it's almost like a costume. Clothing is a
costume if you're only wearing it for that
one event and you're not used to it. What
you want is something that actually you're
proud to wear. You've worn it before and you
feel comfortable in. You've actually identified
some of the hotspots, perhaps had them tailored
and adjusted to fit by a local tailor or seamstress,
so you're used to wearing it.
You feel comfortable in it. It's not the first
time and you can really dress things down
by just wearing it open collar, white shirt
or something like that, but ideally you want
to practice wearing what you're going to wear,
especially the shoes. Don’t wear brand new
shoes the first day. Practice wearing those
shoes even if it's around the house. Practice
wearing the clothing.
[0:05:06]
Point number four, decide on a dress code
and announce it. Now, I've talked about this.
We've got from black tie to semi-formal to
suits to almost business wear to a casual
wedding. The thing is you want to be very
clear not only with the immediate people that
<br><br>
are going to be in the wedding party, but
you want to let people that are going to attend.
That's one of the things and that's a whole
separate video in which people have asked
me, "Antonio, I'm going to a wedding" or "Antonio,
I've been invited to a wedding this summer.
I've been invited to a wedding on the beach."
Be very clear in the invitation what the dress
code is, and if you have room, if you can
expand on it, give people examples.
Now, understand that as the groom, you're
going to be expected to be the best dressed
man there. Well, maybe not, perhaps if you
get married in Vegas and you've had a little
bit to drink. Well, don’t get married if
you've had a little bit to drink in Vegas.
The point is the vast majority of time, the
groom is expected to be the best dressed man
at the wedding, so that's going to set the
standard for every other man that's going
to be attending the wedding, so be very clear
what the dress code is and what's expected.
Number five, communicate with your future
wife. Now, I know some of you guys are saying,
"Antonio, that's where it's all going to start.
She's in charge." Well, I'd like to challenge
that. I think it's important that a man has
a say, that he's able to go back and he's
able to look at it. If you're in the United
States, we have this new tradition -- and
this is relatively new -- in which you have
all of these groomsmen and they're all matching.
Honestly, this came out of the rental industry
because they said, "Hey, if we do this, we
can rent more tuxes."
Don’t feel that you have to do this. What
I like to do is see a group actually give
a dress code and say, "Everyone needs to show
up in dark, solid suits" that are classic,
that fit them well, and we want to maintain
this general look. But to be honest, that's
going to be perfectly fine. Give people direction.
That's the cool thing about a dress code,
but communicate that with your bride. Make
sure she's onboard with it. I think if you're
able to take the bull by the horns and you're
able to say, "Hey, I've researched this. I'm
going to run with this. I'm going to make
sure that everyone is up to snuff," then she's
going to be fine with it.
I've been to weddings, I've been in weddings
in which we show up and everyone is renting
and half of them don’t even fit. In fact,
one time I remember we're going to a wedding
and my wife is adjusting people's suits. She's
not even a seamstress, but she knows how to
sew. She's adjusting people's suits in the
van as we're heading to the wedding so that
they fit a bit better. Half the stuff was
ill-fitted.
Guys, that's what happens when you rent, nothing
against rentals. I'm sorry. I know some of
you guys out there own those types of stores,
but the problem is when you're not prepared.
If you go through these tips, again, go check
out Smart Groom Guide. I go into a lot more
detail there. Guys, at the end of it, I wish
you the best in your wedding and have fun
on what is going to be one of the days that
you're going to look back -- I'm not going
to say it's going to be your most fun day,
but I will say it's going to be one of those
days that you're going to remember for the
rest of your life. You're going to look back
on it and your family is going to be proud
that you are able to show up there and put
your best foot forward for your future bride,
for your family, and for yourself.
All right guys, take care. See you in the
next video. Bye-bye.
[0:08:36] End of Audio
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
How to Pick Mother of the Bride Dress | Perfect Wedding - Corinne's Wedding Dress How To!
How to Pick Mother of the Bride Dress | Perfect Wedding
My name is Barbara Esses and I do events for
a living. I'm Ruthie Hecht; I'm an event planner
and I work with and for my mother. We're going
to teach you the do's and don'ts for the perfect
wedding. In the movie "Father of the Bride",
Diane Keaton wore the most beautiful beaded
jacket and skirt. She chose to be a conservative
mother of the bride. Today, mothers of the
bride can be all ages and choose very different
ways to look. Number one, tney need to look
in the same genre as the bride meaning that
if it's an evening event dress for the evening.
For the daytime dress for the daytime. They
obviously need to coordinate color with their
daughters and the bride should usually like
what the mother is wearing. There was a very
big tendency for a long time for there to
be what we call a mother of the bride dress
in fashion. That no longer exists today. Most
mothers of the bride want to be fashionable
but they don't want to wear anything that
was stereotyped in the 1970's or the 1980's.
The varieties of things out there are enormous.
The price differentials are enormous. So it's
a good idea to have an idea of what you want
to spend in mind before you go to the store
and to be quite honest with the salesperson
of what your budget is so they don't show
<br><br>
you things for double the money which will,
you know, that you fall in love with and will
upset you. Mother of the bride has way too
many options and that's what makes it a very
difficult thing to dress a mother of the bride.
Corinne's Wedding Dress How To!
Hey, Thread Heads.
Well, I'm officially
a married woman, woo,
and I wanted to share with you
how I made my DIY wedding dress,
just in case you were interested
in making your own version of it.
It could work for a prom dress.
It could work for a wedding dress.
It could work for a costume.
I'm really happy with how
it came out.
There's definitely things
that I would change about it now,
knowing what I know now.
It was totally a learning process,
going through the steps
of figuring out how to make it.
I had never made a corset before,
so I had to learn how to make
a corset first.
I actually made two versions
of the dress
before making it
in the duchess satin
that I used for the final dress.
The fabric that I'd bought
for the final version of the dress
was about $25 a yard.
I bought my fabric
from this website.
Again, it was $25 a yard,
so when you're practicing
making the dress
you really want to use something
that does not cost as much.
But let me tell you,
even when I used muslin
to make a mock-up of the dress,
I had that bridal feeling
when I tried on the muslin version
of the dress.
That's how in love with it I was.
I altered the pattern a little bit
before I made the final version
of the dress,
and I totally shouldn't have
done that because I didn't
have time to test out
the alteration
before I did it
on the final fabric.
I was literally sewing
the last button on
at 6:00 a.m. in the morning,
and we were leaving at 7:00 a.m.
to get on the plane to fly
to where the wedding was,
so it was chaotic.
I really don't feel like I
waited until the last minute.
I mean, I spent a lot of time
doing mock-ups of the dress
and figuring out the fit
and the patterns
and even the skirt of the dress.
I originally wanted to do
a fitted skirt
that was more of a mermaid-type
situation,
and it was really difficult.
I couldn't get it to look
how I wanted it to look,
so I abandoned that idea
completely,
and I actually ended up using
a circle skirt pattern
to make the skirt portion
of the dress.
And it worked out really great.
It's actually super easy
The hardest part about making
the dress for me
was keeping the fabric clean,
because you can get white fabric
dirty like that.
So basically, what I had to do
was tape
white paper down
all over the floor
and do everything on top
of that white paper.
So when I was cutting out
the circle skirtâ€"
and again, it's a floor-length
skirt,
so the circle was huge.
You can learn how to make
your own circle skirt.
It's super simple.
It's literally you make
the big circle
and then the smaller middle circle
where your waist hole would be.
I have done a circle skirt tutorial
before,
but there's many circle skirt
tutorials here on YouTube.
Actually, Secret Life of a Bio Nerd
just did a great one,
so if you want to learn how to
make your own circle skirt,
I would check out her tutorial.
I also made a lining
using the same pattern,
but I used a bridal lining fabric
that can be found
at voguefabricsstore.com.
They have everything you need
to sew a professional garment.
That's where I got all of my
corset boning from, the steel
boning.
I got all the specialty needles
and pins you need
to sew satin and silk.
You need really, really sharp
needles to sew that type of fabric,
otherwise you'll get puckering,
and no one wants that.
You can always try to press out
puckering,
but, for the most part,
you'll always see a slight pucker
if you don't use the right needles
and the right thread.
So you really want to take
those precautions
because it's really sad when you've
spent a lot of money on your fabric
and kind of skimp on the needles
and end up that being the downfall
of your garment.
So make sure to get
the right needles.
Again, voguefabricsstore.com
has just everything you need.
The hardest part about sewing
the skirt portion of the dress
was hand hemming the bottom hem
of the skirt.
It took about 12 hours.
I sat here and watched
wedding movies the whole time
I hemmed it
on top of my white paper.
I felt like a crazy person.
It just took a really long time,
but that's how you kind of have to
do it with formal garments.
You could just do a double-turn hem
and use the sewing machine,
and now I'm kind of wishing I
would have done that
because I literally got the bottom
of the dress so dirty.
When stuff like this happens,
you really question
spending 12 hours doing something.
There is still twigs in here.
Like, I literally have a twig
in the dress.
That looks like a footprint.
I'm pretty sure that's a footprint.
For the closure of the skirt,
I used an invisible zipper
and a waistband, and, again,
I've done videos on showing you
how to do that.
You can watch my how to sew
an invisible zipper video
to learn how to sew the zipper
and how to sew a skirt waistband
to sew the waist band
to the top of the skirt.
For the corset top, I used
the method
I show in my video on how to
create a costume corset.
I do everything the same.
I'm using an invisible zipper
in the back
to close the back up,
but instead of using
plastic boning,
which I show in that video,
I used steel boning.
It's a little bit more expensive,
but I'm telling you
it's so much more worth it.
Plastic boning only bends
like this,
but steel boning bends
back and forth but also
side to side.
It's pretty remarkable.
With plastic boning, you can have
some buckling
because it's not going to bend
the way that you need
it to bend for the boning channels.
For a very simple, straight-forward
corset or bodice top,
plastic boning could definitely
work,
but for something like this,
that you really want to define
your shape,
you really want to use
steel boning.
It is so much better.
I got all my steel boning
from voguefabricsstore.com
as well,
and they sell it
in different lengths,
so according to which section
you're putting that boning in,
you want to make sure you know
which size each section
of boning you're going to need.
This is kind of like what
the boning looks like.
It's really awesome because, again,
it bends this way,
and that's side to side,
and then obviously it bends
this way.
So it's pretty awesome.
This stuff is really cool.
And you want to make sure
that it has the
boning enders, the little caps
on the end,
because, otherwise, you could stick
through your fabric,
and you don't want that to happen.
Another difference in the corset
that I made for the wedding dress
versus what I show you to make
in my costume corset video
is that for the lining fabric
I used a cotil. I'm not sure
if I'm saying that right.
I'm mostly self-taught,
so I've never really actually heard
that word spoken to me,
but I'm pretty sure it's pronounced
cotil.
It's what they use
for ballet corsets,
and any type of standard
real-deal corset
is going to use this fabric.
It's a super strong fabric.
It is crazy.
It's super stiff.
There's no stretch to it.
So basically, why you want
to use this
is because then,
for your outer fabric,
you can use anything you want.
It can even have stretch, really.
But once you sew it
together with this lining fabric,
that fabric is not moving anywhere.
You are going to beâ€"
there is not going to be
any stretching
to the outer fabric.
Between this fabric
and the steel boning,
you're not going anywhere.
Cotil can be kind of expensive,
but this website has it
for a really good price,
so I would check that out
if you're interested.
Another little detail
that I really loved
about the corset that I made
for the wedding dress
is that I added black satin buttons
to the back, and essentially I just
hand sewed them
right through the lining fabric.
It was the last thing I did.
It was so last minute.
I couldn't worry about being
all picky about it,
so you can definitely still see
the stitching on this side,
but they look so beautiful
from this side.
I've always wanted to have
a wedding dress
with buttons down my back.
I just love the black satin buttons
that I actually got
from a website
called As Cute As a Button.
So if you're interested in finding
some black satin buttons,
that's definitely a good place
to get them from.
Also, you need the little
button loops.
You really don't need
the button loops
because I have the zipper,
and once it's all zipped together
it just looks like they're buttoned
because everything is so close
together-looking,
<br><br>
but I wanted to make sure
that I did it right.
And the way that I added it
was super easy.
Before I put the zipper in,
I just sewed it right along
the seam line of one side,
but pointing this direction,
so it was like this.
And then once I sewed
the zipper in,
it went like that.
And so it was perfect
and really easy to do, actually.
I thought it was going to be
a lot more finicky,
but it was super easy,
and I love how it turned out.
For the black sash that I wore
around my waist,
I just used some Petersham ribbon.
Again, I'm not really sure
if I'm saying that right.
Self-taught, never really heard
that word said to me before,
so I'm going to say it
how I think it's saidâ€"
Petersham ribbon.
Well, that's it.
That was my wedding dress journey.
I just wanted to share that
with you
because I know a lot of people
have been wondering
what the dress looked like
and how I made it.
I really do hope that inspires you
to try your hand at making your own
formal wear.
It's usually not as daunting
as it may seem at first.
It's always a lot more difficult
in your mind
than it actually is to do.
Everything is a step-by-step
process.
As long as you do everything
in the correct order,
then you can make your own
wedding dress or formal wear.
Also, I'm really excited
to announce
that I'm going to be showing you
how to create a new costume
here on ThreadBanger every month,
so I really need suggestions
as to what kind of costumes
you would like to see.
You know, a costume doesn't
just have to be for Halloween.
There's all kinds of cosplay
events
and Comic-Con conventions
that people are always looking
for a good costume how-to.
So send in your ideas,
and also, don't forget to send in
pictures or videos
of your cozy, warm yarn project
for our outfit of the day video.
That will premiere at the end
of the month.
You can email pictures to
threadbangerstyle@gmail.com
or post videos as a video response
right here on YouTube.
All right, everyone,
I'll see you later.
My name is Barbara Esses and I do events for
a living. I'm Ruthie Hecht; I'm an event planner
and I work with and for my mother. We're going
to teach you the do's and don'ts for the perfect
wedding. In the movie "Father of the Bride",
Diane Keaton wore the most beautiful beaded
jacket and skirt. She chose to be a conservative
mother of the bride. Today, mothers of the
bride can be all ages and choose very different
ways to look. Number one, tney need to look
in the same genre as the bride meaning that
if it's an evening event dress for the evening.
For the daytime dress for the daytime. They
obviously need to coordinate color with their
daughters and the bride should usually like
what the mother is wearing. There was a very
big tendency for a long time for there to
be what we call a mother of the bride dress
in fashion. That no longer exists today. Most
mothers of the bride want to be fashionable
but they don't want to wear anything that
was stereotyped in the 1970's or the 1980's.
The varieties of things out there are enormous.
The price differentials are enormous. So it's
a good idea to have an idea of what you want
to spend in mind before you go to the store
and to be quite honest with the salesperson
of what your budget is so they don't show
<br><br>
you things for double the money which will,
you know, that you fall in love with and will
upset you. Mother of the bride has way too
many options and that's what makes it a very
difficult thing to dress a mother of the bride.
Corinne's Wedding Dress How To!
Hey, Thread Heads.
Well, I'm officially
a married woman, woo,
and I wanted to share with you
how I made my DIY wedding dress,
just in case you were interested
in making your own version of it.
It could work for a prom dress.
It could work for a wedding dress.
It could work for a costume.
I'm really happy with how
it came out.
There's definitely things
that I would change about it now,
knowing what I know now.
It was totally a learning process,
going through the steps
of figuring out how to make it.
I had never made a corset before,
so I had to learn how to make
a corset first.
I actually made two versions
of the dress
before making it
in the duchess satin
that I used for the final dress.
The fabric that I'd bought
for the final version of the dress
was about $25 a yard.
I bought my fabric
from this website.
Again, it was $25 a yard,
so when you're practicing
making the dress
you really want to use something
that does not cost as much.
But let me tell you,
even when I used muslin
to make a mock-up of the dress,
I had that bridal feeling
when I tried on the muslin version
of the dress.
That's how in love with it I was.
I altered the pattern a little bit
before I made the final version
of the dress,
and I totally shouldn't have
done that because I didn't
have time to test out
the alteration
before I did it
on the final fabric.
I was literally sewing
the last button on
at 6:00 a.m. in the morning,
and we were leaving at 7:00 a.m.
to get on the plane to fly
to where the wedding was,
so it was chaotic.
I really don't feel like I
waited until the last minute.
I mean, I spent a lot of time
doing mock-ups of the dress
and figuring out the fit
and the patterns
and even the skirt of the dress.
I originally wanted to do
a fitted skirt
that was more of a mermaid-type
situation,
and it was really difficult.
I couldn't get it to look
how I wanted it to look,
so I abandoned that idea
completely,
and I actually ended up using
a circle skirt pattern
to make the skirt portion
of the dress.
And it worked out really great.
It's actually super easy
The hardest part about making
the dress for me
was keeping the fabric clean,
because you can get white fabric
dirty like that.
So basically, what I had to do
was tape
white paper down
all over the floor
and do everything on top
of that white paper.
So when I was cutting out
the circle skirtâ€"
and again, it's a floor-length
skirt,
so the circle was huge.
You can learn how to make
your own circle skirt.
It's super simple.
It's literally you make
the big circle
and then the smaller middle circle
where your waist hole would be.
I have done a circle skirt tutorial
before,
but there's many circle skirt
tutorials here on YouTube.
Actually, Secret Life of a Bio Nerd
just did a great one,
so if you want to learn how to
make your own circle skirt,
I would check out her tutorial.
I also made a lining
using the same pattern,
but I used a bridal lining fabric
that can be found
at voguefabricsstore.com.
They have everything you need
to sew a professional garment.
That's where I got all of my
corset boning from, the steel
boning.
I got all the specialty needles
and pins you need
to sew satin and silk.
You need really, really sharp
needles to sew that type of fabric,
otherwise you'll get puckering,
and no one wants that.
You can always try to press out
puckering,
but, for the most part,
you'll always see a slight pucker
if you don't use the right needles
and the right thread.
So you really want to take
those precautions
because it's really sad when you've
spent a lot of money on your fabric
and kind of skimp on the needles
and end up that being the downfall
of your garment.
So make sure to get
the right needles.
Again, voguefabricsstore.com
has just everything you need.
The hardest part about sewing
the skirt portion of the dress
was hand hemming the bottom hem
of the skirt.
It took about 12 hours.
I sat here and watched
wedding movies the whole time
I hemmed it
on top of my white paper.
I felt like a crazy person.
It just took a really long time,
but that's how you kind of have to
do it with formal garments.
You could just do a double-turn hem
and use the sewing machine,
and now I'm kind of wishing I
would have done that
because I literally got the bottom
of the dress so dirty.
When stuff like this happens,
you really question
spending 12 hours doing something.
There is still twigs in here.
Like, I literally have a twig
in the dress.
That looks like a footprint.
I'm pretty sure that's a footprint.
For the closure of the skirt,
I used an invisible zipper
and a waistband, and, again,
I've done videos on showing you
how to do that.
You can watch my how to sew
an invisible zipper video
to learn how to sew the zipper
and how to sew a skirt waistband
to sew the waist band
to the top of the skirt.
For the corset top, I used
the method
I show in my video on how to
create a costume corset.
I do everything the same.
I'm using an invisible zipper
in the back
to close the back up,
but instead of using
plastic boning,
which I show in that video,
I used steel boning.
It's a little bit more expensive,
but I'm telling you
it's so much more worth it.
Plastic boning only bends
like this,
but steel boning bends
back and forth but also
side to side.
It's pretty remarkable.
With plastic boning, you can have
some buckling
because it's not going to bend
the way that you need
it to bend for the boning channels.
For a very simple, straight-forward
corset or bodice top,
plastic boning could definitely
work,
but for something like this,
that you really want to define
your shape,
you really want to use
steel boning.
It is so much better.
I got all my steel boning
from voguefabricsstore.com
as well,
and they sell it
in different lengths,
so according to which section
you're putting that boning in,
you want to make sure you know
which size each section
of boning you're going to need.
This is kind of like what
the boning looks like.
It's really awesome because, again,
it bends this way,
and that's side to side,
and then obviously it bends
this way.
So it's pretty awesome.
This stuff is really cool.
And you want to make sure
that it has the
boning enders, the little caps
on the end,
because, otherwise, you could stick
through your fabric,
and you don't want that to happen.
Another difference in the corset
that I made for the wedding dress
versus what I show you to make
in my costume corset video
is that for the lining fabric
I used a cotil. I'm not sure
if I'm saying that right.
I'm mostly self-taught,
so I've never really actually heard
that word spoken to me,
but I'm pretty sure it's pronounced
cotil.
It's what they use
for ballet corsets,
and any type of standard
real-deal corset
is going to use this fabric.
It's a super strong fabric.
It is crazy.
It's super stiff.
There's no stretch to it.
So basically, why you want
to use this
is because then,
for your outer fabric,
you can use anything you want.
It can even have stretch, really.
But once you sew it
together with this lining fabric,
that fabric is not moving anywhere.
You are going to beâ€"
there is not going to be
any stretching
to the outer fabric.
Between this fabric
and the steel boning,
you're not going anywhere.
Cotil can be kind of expensive,
but this website has it
for a really good price,
so I would check that out
if you're interested.
Another little detail
that I really loved
about the corset that I made
for the wedding dress
is that I added black satin buttons
to the back, and essentially I just
hand sewed them
right through the lining fabric.
It was the last thing I did.
It was so last minute.
I couldn't worry about being
all picky about it,
so you can definitely still see
the stitching on this side,
but they look so beautiful
from this side.
I've always wanted to have
a wedding dress
with buttons down my back.
I just love the black satin buttons
that I actually got
from a website
called As Cute As a Button.
So if you're interested in finding
some black satin buttons,
that's definitely a good place
to get them from.
Also, you need the little
button loops.
You really don't need
the button loops
because I have the zipper,
and once it's all zipped together
it just looks like they're buttoned
because everything is so close
together-looking,
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but I wanted to make sure
that I did it right.
And the way that I added it
was super easy.
Before I put the zipper in,
I just sewed it right along
the seam line of one side,
but pointing this direction,
so it was like this.
And then once I sewed
the zipper in,
it went like that.
And so it was perfect
and really easy to do, actually.
I thought it was going to be
a lot more finicky,
but it was super easy,
and I love how it turned out.
For the black sash that I wore
around my waist,
I just used some Petersham ribbon.
Again, I'm not really sure
if I'm saying that right.
Self-taught, never really heard
that word said to me before,
so I'm going to say it
how I think it's saidâ€"
Petersham ribbon.
Well, that's it.
That was my wedding dress journey.
I just wanted to share that
with you
because I know a lot of people
have been wondering
what the dress looked like
and how I made it.
I really do hope that inspires you
to try your hand at making your own
formal wear.
It's usually not as daunting
as it may seem at first.
It's always a lot more difficult
in your mind
than it actually is to do.
Everything is a step-by-step
process.
As long as you do everything
in the correct order,
then you can make your own
wedding dress or formal wear.
Also, I'm really excited
to announce
that I'm going to be showing you
how to create a new costume
here on ThreadBanger every month,
so I really need suggestions
as to what kind of costumes
you would like to see.
You know, a costume doesn't
just have to be for Halloween.
There's all kinds of cosplay
events
and Comic-Con conventions
that people are always looking
for a good costume how-to.
So send in your ideas,
and also, don't forget to send in
pictures or videos
of your cozy, warm yarn project
for our outfit of the day video.
That will premiere at the end
of the month.
You can email pictures to
threadbangerstyle@gmail.com
or post videos as a video response
right here on YouTube.
All right, everyone,
I'll see you later.
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