Gown Update

I walked uptown today with my pal Andi and took the dress to my tailor. It's kind of fun to say "my tailor." Anyway, this woman named Zuzana does wonderful work for a reasonable rate. She told me the dress would need to be taken in at least four inches, and that it would be no problem to put a lace-up back on it instead of the current zipper closure. She's also going to put some bra cups in so I'll have one less bit of underpinning to worry about, and we'll worry about the hem later, once the major reconstruction is done and the thing actually fits. I'm so happy to have found a nice, elegant gown to wear amid all the big white abominable snow-bunny dresses there are out there. I'm going to bead it a little, but I won't harlot it up too much. I'm going to design a shrug or little jacket to wear over the dress for the church service, and the lines and material for this take up some of my idle-thought time each day. I think my mom would really have loved this gown, and that makes me happy.