Because You Asked

Briefing the Ball

I’ve had several requests for pictures of my dress on me…here’s the best I could come up with.  Sandra snapped the pic, catching me frantically cramming for the next dance I was to brief.

Done!

So, other than snipping threads, my dress for the ball in two weeks is finally done.  This has been a project that I have been working on for two years.  Now, I sit back and look at it.

The good: I love the color, and I love the decision I made to line it with a color that matches the print rather than the main color.  It’s a polished cotton, which means it will be nice and cool through the 18-dance ball program, and since it’s printed with heather sprays, totally appropriate for a spring Scottish ball.

The bad: I wish now that I had made the skirt long.  To be fair, I had initially intended this dress for LAST year’s ball.  Last year, the facility that we were in had a (very steep) flight of stairs between the dance floor and the break area.  After years of tripping over and stepping on the hems of my dresses on these stairs, I decided when cutting to make this dress short (well, knee length).  We lost this facility this year, and have moved south to Lodi, to a non-staired facility.  Now I long for the elegance of a long skirt.  Plus, I picked up a book called Fit for Real People and I’ve spent the entire afternoon picking my dress apart: I feel that it doesn’t fit across the shoulders (something I wouldn’t have noticed if I hadn’t just read that chapter *sigh*), I’m noticing bunches, I wish the neckline wasn’t quite so low (though it still passes all the necessary dance prerequisites).

But there’s always next year…