Hi all, I am trying to copy/alrter a dress I have. I love this dress but it is too tight in the hips so I made a muslin copy. I have been studying the original dress and I think I did a good job adjusting the hips and the skirt fits well. I am just having trouble getting the bust correct though. The dress has an empire waist (that's what it's called when it's right below the bust, right?) and the attached strappy bodice is tight across the bust but gapes towards my armpits. I have tried taking measurements of the pieces and I just can't quite wrap my brain around how to tighten the part by my armpits part and loosen the part by the bust. If this doesn't make sense I can try to add pictures of my actual dress tonight but so far this is the closest I could find on the web:
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16 years ago