Oh, No!! Not MORE effin bridesmaids!

Ah, definitely the beginning of a dream client as she is starting this far ahead with the wedding plans. AND, she didn't try to get the patterns and fabric herself. I think (or at least am hoping) that this young lady will help counteract the disgust felt towards the most recent bridesmaid dress fiasco (not the last ones you made, but the ones they brought to you for repair).

Larisa, start> Yep! And a bride to go with them! Luckily, this bride is VERY

Oh, I hope so! The other bridesmaids will be fine - they will be grateful for anything that helps!

This is the dress that I have made two of and have to hem!

It looks beautiful on, it really does. The straps sit wonderfully and it looks grownup but elegant rather than sexy!

I thought the pattern was pretty straightforward to follow, btw and I'm nowhere near as experienced as you!

Lloer

Don't we have excellent taste! :)

Imagine it with either a cream top and a lilac skirt, a lilac top and a cream skirt, a cream skirt and a tartan top, or cream all over with a tartan sash! These are the options we are discussing...

Ah, I thought you meant she was 12 NOW! Hopefully, she won't grow that much by then!

Good luck! Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

They are the same: think buckets! Poor lass... She's only 20, too!

Don't count on it. DD was a skinny 10 yo (wore pattern size 10, lengthened)...and now, at not-quite-12, is wearing a girls 16 (which are *not* sized by age). By the time she actually turns 12, I expect to be making juniors or misses sized clothes for her....

jenn

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Come to think of it, my oldest was also a skinny 10, and by the time she was 13 was an Amazonian size 9. I'm fairly tall at 5' 7", but she was two inches taller than I by then.

But Kate, you're able to make a dress without an exact pattern, aren't you? You shouldn't have any trouble. I just wouldn't cut it out til the very last thing before the wedding, personally. Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

That's what I'm planning: wedding end of Feb, Make dresses Jan/Feb. Even if she does suddenly sprout a figure (unlikely, given her present looks and family physiology), she will still only be 12, and will NOT need to look like an adult bridesmaid. The pattern can be adapted for size, no probs. Let's face it, if I can adapt a 1970's size 8 to fit a

The bride (her older sister) didn't sprout till later, but was always a plump one. This little lass takes after the other side of the family: the Olga Korbut looking ones!

Kate I am clearly having a very switched off week, I have been reading this thread and couldn't work out why you titled it ELFIN Bridesmaids when you said she was a large lass. This morning the light bulb went on effin not elfin, Honestly this heat it's fried my brain. Duhhh! Claire

It's an idea... The tartan should be a miniature, so tiny checks. I've seen them done with the tartan bodices in this sort of stuff, and they look wonderful.

Having looked at a picture of the 10YO who will be 12 when I do her dress, 'elfin' is an EXCELLENT description!

I'm just feeling a tad nervous about bridesmaids at present, having done

As an aside: I think this bride has, accidentally, done an excellent thing. She's a BIG lass - lovely, but BIG. All her bridesmaids are kids. They will look adorable, but she will have no rivals on the day! :)

Bride might have more adorable tots ready to help her walk down the aisle by then. Better get some kiddie patterns too.

Kate, please translate UK bra sizes for me. The largest I've ever heard of domestically (US) is a double DD, which makes one think of basketballs. I can't begin to fathom a J cup, unless there's a transposition factor as with temperatures or metric measurements. TIA

--Karen M.

Bra cup sizes are the same (I used to take a 36F, but am now an E/EE again!). You don't usually see the very big (G and up) sizes in many ordinary shops. Just a few lasses need them, and they tend to be more expensive makes that build them, so they appear only in specialist corsetry stores and larger quality department stores.

All I can say is..OUCH! Being pregnant, I am a D cup, and that is not comfortable for me to deal with...can't even begin to fathom what a J cup would be like to deal with on a daily basis.

Jenn Ridley wrote:

They do rather give warning that you will be along in five minutes! I deal with me being a EE (I went form a 36D to a 40F when preggie, lost that, and then put on weight and went up again!) every day and it does make buying clothes a little strange! So I make them instead unless I buy knits.

I have no great interest in making T-shirts and stuff as they are boring and cheap to buy. I like a challenge when I sew!

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