Denim Dress

Denim Dress

Hey guys!! Hope you week is going well!
I seem to always be attending some type of event and a couple weeks ago I attended one at The Club. I LOVE this place. They have THE BEST ORANGE ROLLS ON EARTH. lol

I often know of these events WAY ahead of time and since I make around 80% of all my clothing I started to plan.

I saw this dress from the Paule Ka Pre-Fall collection and FELL.IN.LOVE.

Let me pause here and tell you a little bit about myself. If you didn’t know I absolutely LOVE fashion. I LOVE high end fashion. I LOVE watching all the runway shows. What I love more is taking something from the runway and making it fit into my lifestyle. You will see some of that VERY soon 🙂

Mine is a tad bit different. When I see something that I’m inspired by I love to make it my own. I don’t necessarily want to be an exact copy.  When I was looking at my fabric stash waiting on something to speak to me (what your fabric doesn’t talk to you? ) I saw this AMAZING stretch denim that almost forgot I had. I received so many complements on this dress and there was even more amazement when people got up close to me and saw that it was denim.

What I love most about this dress is the collar, the fit and the unexpected fabric I decided to go with.  I did love the original dress clearly but I wanted mine to be a tad more tailored to my body. NOT skin tight, I don’t do the whole painted on look, but I wanted it to lay against the few curves that I have lol

I added pleats to the inside of the neck band so it would give me that “bunched up” look. When I wear it off my shoulders it looks like a totally different dress. It’s going to be a great date night dress with my boo thang 🙂

I had the hardest time deciding on shoes. I have SO many that I absolutely love but after sending a gazillion pictures to my sister in law “we” decided red was the best lol.

You guys know I have to sparkle DAILY so I went with one of my favorite statement necklaces.

I love this shot of me before the event started.

For those of you who sew, I did not use a pattern. I have a sloper and I used that to make it. I WILL make another version of this sometime in the future and I’ll make the collar a TAD bit longer.

Be Inspired. Live Inspired. Be an Essential Woman.