September's Regal Cinema Cult Classic Friday is Grease!
And not only is it Grease, but its a Grease Sing-a-long!!!!!!
So Naturally I have to go, and naturally I have to make a new outfit/costume to wear!
Being a 50's era movie, I figured it would be best to make an outfit that I could then incorporate into my regular wardrobe afterwards. Also, my Husband said he won't go to a sing-a-long with me (party pooper!) So I don't want to go as Sandy without a Danny. As cool as Rizzo is, I don't think I could pull of her style (or hair) so I thought, hey, why not dye my hair Pink again and go as everyone's favourite beauty school dropout?
So as a base, I pulled out this oh-so-very-90's pattern from my stash
While at first glance it may seem a bit hideous, If I change the skirt to a pencil skirt and add darts to the bodice pieces, I will have pretty close to what I need! I will also add a bit more fullness to the sleeve heads for some cute gathering like Frenchy's dress.
While I would've ideally liked a slightly stretchy fabric (like bengaline or stretch cotton sateen) to make this a very fitted dress, Running around spotlight with my husband, my brother and his fiancé all looking for a slightly stretchy light Pink fabric, did not yield any results. So I settled for 3m of cheap cotton poplin, which was on sale for less than $4 per meter.
I shortened the Bodice pieces by approximately 1.5 inches, and cut a size 20 in the bodice, nipped in to an 18 at the waist, which was the size 22 of the skirt pieces (borrowed from Butterick B6094 which I have made twice before in Red/Black and in Green/Purple) and then graded out about 1 inch further at the hip line on each piece. Instead of cutting the back on the fold I cut it as 2 pieces to make it easy to put a split at the bottom of the skirt. I used the skirt darts and continued them up to make darts in the bodice pieces.
This is coming together quite easily (although I am yet to get to the buttonholes) However I still have not found fabric to make myself a Pink Ladies jacket. Instead of going screen accurate for it, I really want to make a leather/vinyl bomber style jacket, but I just cannot seem to find pink leather or vinyl in my price range. Sad Face. Oh well, I will keep looking and hopefully something will turn up.
Seriously, if you live anywhere near Newcastle, you should really book tickets to come along, its only $7! and usually there is a complimentary drink and some nibbles. Plus I will be there! Yay!
Anyway, completed costume photos from the night will follow as usual.
Dixie O'Dare
P.S. I will hopefully be getting my teeth all fixed up next week sometime, so hopefully will be feeling much better and be getting lots more sewing, etc done!
Being a 50's era movie, I figured it would be best to make an outfit that I could then incorporate into my regular wardrobe afterwards. Also, my Husband said he won't go to a sing-a-long with me (party pooper!) So I don't want to go as Sandy without a Danny. As cool as Rizzo is, I don't think I could pull of her style (or hair) so I thought, hey, why not dye my hair Pink again and go as everyone's favourite beauty school dropout?
So as a base, I pulled out this oh-so-very-90's pattern from my stash
While I would've ideally liked a slightly stretchy fabric (like bengaline or stretch cotton sateen) to make this a very fitted dress, Running around spotlight with my husband, my brother and his fiancé all looking for a slightly stretchy light Pink fabric, did not yield any results. So I settled for 3m of cheap cotton poplin, which was on sale for less than $4 per meter.
I shortened the Bodice pieces by approximately 1.5 inches, and cut a size 20 in the bodice, nipped in to an 18 at the waist, which was the size 22 of the skirt pieces (borrowed from Butterick B6094 which I have made twice before in Red/Black and in Green/Purple) and then graded out about 1 inch further at the hip line on each piece. Instead of cutting the back on the fold I cut it as 2 pieces to make it easy to put a split at the bottom of the skirt. I used the skirt darts and continued them up to make darts in the bodice pieces.
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| Fraken-patterning |
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| Progress so far |
This is coming together quite easily (although I am yet to get to the buttonholes) However I still have not found fabric to make myself a Pink Ladies jacket. Instead of going screen accurate for it, I really want to make a leather/vinyl bomber style jacket, but I just cannot seem to find pink leather or vinyl in my price range. Sad Face. Oh well, I will keep looking and hopefully something will turn up.
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| I'd love to make something like this! |
Seriously, if you live anywhere near Newcastle, you should really book tickets to come along, its only $7! and usually there is a complimentary drink and some nibbles. Plus I will be there! Yay!
Anyway, completed costume photos from the night will follow as usual.
Dixie O'Dare
P.S. I will hopefully be getting my teeth all fixed up next week sometime, so hopefully will be feeling much better and be getting lots more sewing, etc done!
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