SKETCH TO REALITY

I am a klutz when it comes to  dressmaking. this is so because each time I have a vivid and flawless imagination on how I want a particular piece to look I usually end up on the bitter side of life with my silly mistakes. I spoke about my mistakes in sometime ago. But you know the goodnews, mistakes are good! They make you sit up in your next projects, the more mistakes you make the better! They turn you into something different!

Now I make dresses, that though may not match exactly with my imaginations but they come just as close! Learning is such a beautiful thing! For this post, it is a dress I wore on Easter Sunday! It was really just as close to my imaginations! Maybe that is because I did lots of research, on how to make a peplum stand! oh boy! The self method I came up with was so tedious that I would beg to differ if someone has a better alternative!

I had to use a wire, use a heavy fusible that ended up making the dress as heavy as a wedding dress! But oh well, what do I care I got my result and I am glad! I am still doing my research work here! I heard Horse tail Braid works to kick peplums but I have non and also could not lay my hands on any!

Ankara gown

So there is the the dress! and you see the way the down part of the dress flares... That was how I wanted it! On her head is what  is called Gele! I make them too. I cannot tie them to save my life but i sew them into a position that will last a life time and takes less than thirty minutes to install for each use!

Ankara Gown

This is a collage of the sketch and the reality!

Mabee Hautelicious illustrations

Mabee Hautelicious Ankara dress

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Mabee in Ankara Dress

Rhonkefella

Rhonkefella and a few others were the inspiration behind the dress! And the fact that I only wanted a challenge! A challenge on how I could achieve the pretty lower part of the dress. Hopefully I nailed it. There is more to come.

THE PICTURES BELOW WAS WHEN THE DRESS WAS IN PROGRESS.
It was such a tedious process getting tis dress done but hopefully I have learnt for next time so I can save time and energy! Though it was worth all the struggle.

 This is the gele that went with the dress. It is purple and lovely!

Gele by MBH

TWINNING WITH MY AMBASSADOR

There is nothing as good as having this lil girl in my life. My kid's ambassador Aka my cute lil sister. Apart from her love for the camera I feel the camera loves her more than she does.

BERYL TOP LOVE

   Hanging over our bodies is what we call the BERYL TOP usually matched with a similar colour palazzo trouser (but not in our case). I've loved this beautiful top for so long. Originally designed and made by a popular Nigerian designer WANNIFUGA. You can check out her page on Instagram-@wannifuga.

Showing off the back

style me

mabee hautelicious

I first saw this on Instagram explore page and fell heads o'er heels. I magically imagined how good it'll look on me. 

pink high low blouse

Too aware of how expensive it'll be to get a set for myself. I promised myself I'd love myself to one.

The drapings seemed so impossible to craft out. I tot about different ways to draft out the pattern until some months ago when I was in serious need of what to wear to my course dinner. 

twinning girls

MABEE HAUTELICIOUS

beryl top back view

I met a seamstress in the hope that she would understand it best but to my surprise she called it a kimono!! -wow!! I got so angry and decided to do it myself. Luckily, I did get it right. It is one easy pattern, i promise!

WANNIFUGA INSPIRED

MABEE HAUTELICIOUS

HIGH LOW BLOUSE

    I have had orders for this too and boy!!! It is so loved. 

MABEE HAUTELICIOUS

I had to make a sample for my ambassador and you can imagine what she asked after the fitting, "can I own it after the photo session?" Puppy dog eyes in place as though I was even going to consider turning down such cute request. I found that so funny. And if you would agree with me it suits her so much 

We couldn't resist taking vain selfies for all I care. With the sun basking us, the joys of our dresses. It doesn't actually matter the length. I've seen some of various length short or long. If u notice my front crop is quite longer cos I cudnt stand showing off my midriff.

SISTERS

Here is a picture with the palazzo

It's all so lovely, you can order on her page if you love it so much. Any colour at all is loooovely!! 

Have a blessed week ahead. *swirls around with beryl top*

MABEE HAUTELICIOUS

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

The straight skirt series

Happy new year!!! I know it is coming in the second month of the year. I swear this particular month is faster than the first.
A lot is happening around me, just too glad my life is almost summing up for the best in a few months.
I am so glad,a lot of people have been reading this little blog posts of mine in my absence. The views are amazing. It definitely pushed my lazy butts to write something to post. To all my readers, the returning ones and the visitors thank you so much, you have no idea how happy you make me feel. God bless you all and I love you all.
Well, the straight skirt series is definitely a straight skirt series
I can't remember what I was doing but it struck me to sew a peplum blouse and a straight skirt for myself. I had different ideas of how I wanted my peplum to look so I thought to myself why not draw it out. That I did and I painfully decided to render the drawings with the little skills I adopted from YouTube videos and looking at pictures.
It wasn't so difficult after all, though i didn't use high tech drawing and painting materials but my lead pencil, black pen, steadtler twistables, ...
I really love the outcome of it.
Now I need help selecting which one to sew for myself, someone suggested i do all the blouses. I really need one.
Im hoping someone would help me make a choice.
Well really, loving this Ankara feel.

If i am to pick which i would sew i would go with the first one by the left but the one with the highest vote is the first by the right. too confused??

So sorry the image quality isn't the best but it is quite visible.

Have a lovely day ahead!!!