Later on, while removing it, I saw that the frayed thread looked pretty old and I realized that while my habit of chugging frappucinos had not helped the dress to stay in order, it hadn't hurt as much as I thought. The dress broke away from the zipper mainly because that thread was so old that it had become fragile. I told Helen what had happened and promised her I would fix the dress. I mean, I have a sewing machine, no? I could just whip that sucker up.
Things happened, however, and I forgot about the dress until this evening when I examined the zipper and its lost threads in more detail. Folks, this wasn't some machine made dress. It was hand-sewn. That easy fix is going to require some invisible stitching to attach the outer dress to the zipper. The inner lining will be a much easier straight stitch, but I'm not going to bring down the awesomeness of this dress by machine sewing it.
I pinned the whole thing together for my ease of sewing, and I've got plans for tomorrow night. I had been going to make myself a cute pair of pajama pants, but I foresee some hand-sewing now. I would do it tonight, but it is late, and I will need to practice whipstitching invisibly prior to working on this dress.
I can't believe I thought I was just going to machine stitch this vintage dress. I'm an idiot.
Here's a picture of the dress in murdering action:
Totally cute, no? I mean, not as great as Helen's or Paula's outfits, but it is something!
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Once, someone told me that I had a very "old-fashioned" physique. I think that's supposed to be a nice way to say "hippy".
Don't worry too much about the dress, though, please! As I said, unless someone in my family shrinks 4 inches, that dress is not going anywhere.
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