The hourglass dress

This dress is so personal to me. Inspired by my friend Amaka Nwandu and also by the fact I love when women look curvilious. At first when this whole hourglass illusion thing was a trend I did doubt it could work for my own body. I mean how could just a dress make you look all curvy unless you already had the famous hourglass curves but I did try it and to my surprise it worked!

the original sketch of the hourglass dress

OK, I was home on holidays with nothing to do so I decided to call up my friend to ask if she needed a dress. Her usual self, she was more than happy to have me make a dress for her. Yippy!! More money!
Well, long story cut short I decided to snip snip with my scissors until the idea of the hourglass struck me.
After sewing her that dress it was so lovely that I had to do mine. Luckily I got the right fabric-color, texture. Not thinking too far, I knew the colour that would go with it. The end result of the dress is glorious. It seriously enhances my petite pear shape into an hour glass automatically. What more can I ask for?!

hour glass dress in the making, BODY A

 I love this girl for being my real life mannequin

finished work of the hourglass dress, BODY B

I haven't had the opportunity to wear this dress to anywhere but it has gotten so many positive reviews from people who have seen it.
I love the way this dress enhances the curvy features of my body. I do not have a strict hourglass body, like I said before I am a  petite pear shaped but somehow the geometric shaping of this dress ignores that. A good slit can never ever go wrong if you ask me, please do love your self with some (decent, flirty, softly sensual) any one can go as far as it doesn't erupt the wrong kind of attention.

The dress is a huggy one compared to the one I made for my client (I'll post pics of that one when she wears it), the pics are not clear enough to show you how beautiful the material is, stretch or plain material can do the magic. The length could be shorter but I would go with longer because it would make the dress look more graceful. And no matter how simple it looks only a good tailor can slay this dress especially the angling of the hourglass so as to give the perfect illusion of an effortless hourglass. Also note, everybody's body is different and there would be different results.
I just love this dress, I think I need more of this in my life!!!
#fashion advice: neon green goes with fushia pink and a dark shade of purple.
Some people may have already known that.

The illustration is almost a witness of that if the pictures are not clear enough.
The back of the dress has a long zip across the neck to the end of the dress and there are no purple cuts at the back. Feel free to alter the design to your own taste.
Have a lovely week ahead

My designs in reality

Hey, you all. Hope your week isn't so stressful? May your strengths be renewed if at all it is.
My friends always encourage my designs even though they aren't the most innovative and the best out there. I truly love them for that. So today I'll be shouting out to one of them Nicole Nwadioke- thanks for always supporting me, the cheers, the advice, your comments and likes. You go a long way to boost my self esteem. You are so loved.
Well, back to the issue of the day.
My friends always support my designs, ask me to design for them and all that. The two today sew my designs and  made it come to life.
I designed this dress for my tall friend, she is an epitome of simplicity and I decided to keep everything simple just like her and she loooooved it. Though I didn't make the dress myself but I am pretty happy with the outcome of it. It enhanced her height even more.

This other design was made after I sewed the top and skirt. At the time I made the cloth I had just ended a month apprenticeship in a fashion house. So eager to make a dress I madre the top and skirt not necessarily together but it ended up going pretty good.
This friend of mine saw the design in my sketch and insisted she had to make it. I didn't sew it myself but who says another can't!
She looked so adorable and pretty barbieish.
I really love my friends, thanks for supporting me.

My statement dress!!!

Till this day this dress is the best dress I have ever sewn! Inspired by Kathy Anthony! A popular fashion designer and dressmaker in Nigeria. I made this dress in June. At that time of my life I had this sewing excitement and spree! Destroying materials and also making the best of them.

I made a simple blouse for myself  before and oh my! It shocked the novice in me. Therefore it triggered me to make this attire for myself. 

I had been scrolling through and searching for pictures as I normally do when I need to get inspired! I had been desperate to get a design for a wedding I wanted to attend. And then came the picture from KathyAnthony's Instagram page. I knew I had found what I needed.

I sketched out my own version that I needed. I don't know about anybody but I love it all.

I wish I could tie a proper gele I would have but it is ok

This was when I was seriously  getting down with the blouse. I made the dress in a day or lemme say in two days since I had to do add the finishing touches. I must have been laughing at something my cousin said because I wasn't even aware I got snapped. Since I don't get to have any pictures of me sewing I am glad I have this one.

This is the dress, a geometric peplum blouse and a knee length skirt

This is the front view. I really don't know why I decided to color block with red but I guess it isn't bad. This Ankara is life!!!

I love the effect of the gold zip!

From sketch to reality

I love this dress!!!

Now meet the inspiration!!!

She is so gorgeous! And so is her outfit

Now this was the real inspiration @kathyanthony. This is soooooo nice! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾