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I love how colorful and passionate Spanish culture is (I have Spanish blood in me) and I’ve always been drawn to it.
I’ve wanted a Spanish dancer Flamenco dress for a year now, but I didn’t have an excuse to get one – Halloween was my excuse. I looked up Flamenco Halloween costumes, but they were all cheap and tacky looking. So I looked up authentic Flamenco costumes. They were all $500 – $1000. I didn’t feel like paying that much so I made my own.
I dreamed up my ideal Flamenco costume (a bold, fiery, deep, rich, blood red, fitted dress that expands out into a long, massive train laden down heavily with large ruffles trimmed with lace black as night) and sketched it in my diary. I’ve drawn many ‘’dream dresses’’ since I was a little girl, but I never made any of them. I suppose I hoped that one day I would know how. Well that day has arrived, and I can’t believe I actually pulled it off. My dream dress is a real, actual, physical, tangible, object I can wear! It exists in a place other than my imagination! I’m so happy and excited.
My family didn’t say it, but from the looks on their faces, I could tell they thought this project was way too advanced for me. A few people told me that I, a ‘’newbie ’‘and a novice, without a working sewing machine, was insane to be taking on a project like this, and I think they were quite right. I however, was absolutely determined. So I charged full steam ahead through the confusing world of pattern terminology, proper fabric and cut, and strange words like ‘’bias’’ ‘’awl’’ ‘’baste’’ ‘’serging’’ ‘’grain’’ ‘’muslin’’ ‘’notch’’ and ‘’armscye.’’ I still have no idea what some of those mean, but the dress came out just fine anyway. I wasn’t going to let a few strange words (words which might actually have been important to the dress making process, but which I’ll never know because I never figured them out) stop me.
I learned a lot about Spanish culture and how colorful it is, Flamenco dance, Flamenco culture, and Flamenco fabrics and dress making along the way. (Apparently satin isn’t used very often in Flamenco dresses, but by the time I figured that out it was too late. Well hey, at least it looks good!)
I used nearly 20 yards of red satin, and 90 feet of lace trim was not enough. (I should’ve ordered double)
Anyway, I’m very new to this whole ”dress making” thing, so if this exudes amateur-ness that’s why.
I bought the pattern from this website: www.flamencodressmaking.com/ (That website was a Godsend. Quite literally, )
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