Black Is Not Just A Color, It Is An Attitude.

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Hello Needle workers..

It's the start of a new week, and I hope you have a mindset full of positivity to smash new goals and complete any pending project.

I made an express dress on Saturday night. (Express dress is more like wait and get your dress about a few hours of bringing it to my office.)

The only periods I've made express dresses are during festive seasons and occasionally when a client needs the clothes urgently.

A fair pretty lady (a friend actually) walked into my store at about 5 pm that she needed to make a black dress for Thanksgiving the next day which was Sunday and that she didn't have anything to wear.

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I on the other hand had lots of jobs to do, coupled with the other offline things I've been engaging in, so I almost turned the offer down until she told me how important the event was to her.

Things we do for friends at times, going out of our way to put a smile on their faces.

She brought in the Mikado fabric and tassels and told me to just come up with anything within two hours, she sat patiently watching a movie while I began cutting her clothes.

The fabric here is called Mikado, I do not like the texture of the fabric, it's so hard.

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Here are the tassels, she brought in 22 pieces of them.

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I hate to be on a hot seat, and I hate to be pressured, especially when the client is sitting right next to me because they keep telling you what to do and what not to do.

It began with her telling me that she wanted something very free with some cowl effect by the side, but then the fabric wasn't going to fit the style so I told her I would make something else.

I took her measurement, placed it on the fabric and began to do my thing.

I made the back neckline a canoe neckline while the front was a Vee neckline.

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I cut the fabric like a robe and cut the sleeve too.

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I began to sew it, cutting this fabric took me about thirty minutes because it was a straight cut from shoulder down to the tri-quarter length.

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I cut a lining for the neckline and turned it with my sewing machine.

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After making the dress and hemming it, I began to attach the tassels to the hem of the sleeve, this involved making use of a hand needle to stitch the tassels to the hem.

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I marked a difference of three inches each to attach it to the hem so that it would be accurate.

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This was another challenging part of the project, by now it was an hour, and thirty minutes and my client started to pressurise me to be quick about it because it was getting late.

Threading a small needle at night was a big work for me, but I scaled through.

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After attaching all the tassels, I hurriedly wore them on my mannequin and took just a shot because she was in a haste.

I was so pained that I couldn't take the pictures I wanted to my satisfaction. But she promised to send me a picture of the outfit the next day, which was what made my mind calm.

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Without a reminder, she sent me the pictures of her rocking the outfit the next morning because she knew I would write about it, and she thanked me for making it possible for her to attend the programme.

"I'm glad I could count on you." In her words.

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Here is my client in her black dress, then I realized that black is not just a colour but an attitude, a black dress doesn't need too many accessories, it just pops.

I think every lady should have a black dress in her closet.

I may try to recreate this design soon too, I ended up liking the simplicity.

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All images used are mine, thumbnail was manipulated using the #canva app.


𝕭𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊 y𝖔𝖚 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖆𝖓y𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖗 𝖆𝖓y𝖔𝖓𝖊, 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 y𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖘𝖙.

A𝖒𝖎𝖊,
ᵀʰᵉ ᵍⁱʳˡ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵃ ᵇⁱᵍ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ❤


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Fashion designer, I hail theee!

This has a lot of sense on it.
Keep it up!

Thanks a bunch.

You're most welcome

I hate to be on a hot seat, and I hate to be pressured, especially when the client is sitting right next to me because they keep telling you what to do and what not to do.

haha I know this feeling.

The dress looks simple but classy, I like clients who keep to their word to send picture, dhe looks beautiful in her dress.

Yeah, she kept to her words. Thanks for stopping by.

I don't sew whenever a customer is around, you can't order me around just because you are paying me. I like some freedom to do what I love to do.😂
The black is giving me a rich girl vibe here, well done dear.

Haha, the black dress is giving a rich aunty vibe. Thanks for visiting.

Giving rich Auntie vibes 😍

Yes please, in love with the tassles as well.

She certainly wears the attitude very well!!
I love the detail of the tassels around the hem, adds even more of an attitude😁

Yeah, the tassels added more attitude to the dress. Thank you ma'am for the beautiful comment.