{"id":283,"date":"2011-07-20T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wordpress\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-07-20T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:32:38","slug":"ugh-ugh-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"UGH. Ugh ugh."},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve got a fantastic wedding to attend on September 3rd. I finally bought my dress today, from J Crew (whose dresses I love. \u00a0This is to qualify all the “rar”-ing to come). It looks like this:<\/p>\n

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Alisanne dress in silk taffeta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s very pretty, with a crossed back. One of my favorite things about J Crew is that they don’t employ vanity sizing. I’m a 12 in dressmaker’s sizes, and I’m a 12 in J Crew. It makes life easy. What’s sort of a pain is that this dress, on sale, was $150. Given it’s silk taffeta, and fully lined, and I know it will last me a million years, I shouldn’t complain overmuch.<\/p>\n

But then I see other crafty folk making up their own lovely little vintage dresses, courtesy of Collette Patterns (click here<\/a>). Most notably, this one:<\/p>\n

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Eclair dress from Collette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I could really go all-out with the fabric and supplies. I could buy them from one of the high-fashion fabric stores in the garment district. All told, it would probably come to about the same cost as buying the dress ready-made.<\/p>\n

But oh, if I were a seamstress, I could make it fit like the proverbial glove. Sigh.<\/p>\n

Collette basically makes me want to have a much more personal relationship with my sewing machine. I really should get on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve got a fantastic wedding to attend on September 3rd. I finally bought my dress today, from J Crew (whose dresses I love. \u00a0This is to qualify all the “rar”-ing to come). It looks like this: It’s very pretty, with a crossed back. One of my favorite things about J Crew is that they don’t employ vanity sizing. I’m a 12 in dressmaker’s sizes, and I’m a 12 in J.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}