Daily Wear and New to the Shop
March 23, 2010 11:52 amHappy Tuesday everyone!
Here is a new dress I made for myself over the weekend. I wore it with an oversized sweater, knee high boots and my pleated purse.
Those of you that have been with me this whole time know how much I looooove white. This dress is a Burberry cream on cream striped jersey. It has cascading ruffles down the front.
It has smocked sleeves, smocked neckline and a slimming smocked waistband. Its comforatble, airy and effortless. A great dress to wear casually or dress up.
It’s for sale in my etsy shop, along with two paperbag wiast skirts from my new line at Stripe. This one is a chambray denim.
This one is a combed pink cotton.
Both are a one size fits most! One more day left to enter the giveaway!! And NO! I’m not going to stop doing tutorials. I’ve got one coming on Thursday.
OH! And if you live locally, 20% off our ENTIRE purchase at Stripe today!!
QUESTION: A lot of you requested me to do a dress tutorial for the Anthropologie “You name it, Ill show you how to make it”. Now, I can show you how I make a dress for me, but it’s going to be SOOO different for each body. You may need to dart more, extend more in the back, take in more in the waist etc… I’m worried that whole part will be not helpful at all. Would you rather have a shirt tutorial or an easy dress one? Let me know so I can choose which one to do!
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By britt on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
love the skirt. very stylish!
By Morgan on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
I love, love, love your stuff! My family is going to be visiting Santa Cruz in April or May and I can’t WAIT to visit Stripe.
I have a 3 month old baby that I’m nursing. Is this dress stretchy enough to pull down to nurse? If not, do you have one you’d recommend? Thanks!
By Julie on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
DRESS!!!!
By Andrea on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
I LOVE that dress you made!! It is gorgeous!
Also, where do you buy your t-shirts that you refashion? They look so nice!
By Jessica on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
I would love to just get the idea of how to do a dress! Your stuff is amazing!!!
By Magen on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
DRESS!
By kristen Barstad on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
you are amazing!! that dress is awesome! and so are the skirts! congrats on your own line.
By estelle on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
I vote for a dress. But I would love any help you could provide on how to work with jersey. I tried once 8 years ago and ended up in tears. It’s the biggest thing stopping me from trying your amazing tutorials.
By jamie on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
i vote dress as well. we can figure out how to adapt it ourselves! can you do a tutorial on the dress you just made yourself please? it is completely fabulous.
By Joan W. on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
oooh, a lovely dress please.
love the one you are wearing…helps that you are quite thin and can get away with possibly anything….
thanks so much for your lovely inspiration.
By Sherri Ann on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
Everything you do is incredible and inspiring but a dress would great, perhaps a wrap style?
By Teri on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
DRESS.
By Justine on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
A simple and cute dress would be fun to make
By Julia on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
Dress! The one in this post or any other dress. Spring can’t come soon enough!
By Gabrielle Summers on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
I love the dress Lex!
By Jordan Waddington on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
Purple dress!!
By marilyn meaux on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
i vote for a dress.
i love them but rarely wear them, because that would require shaving.
an empire style would be great for those with the poofy thing hanging out in front, like me.
i hope you design something i am not daunted by.
i really really want to make my own clothes, to have the unique style without the ungodly expense.
sincerely, marilyn
By Ashley S on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
Ooo…I’d love to see how to make an easy dress.
Love this one and loved the purple one you wore recently too!
By clickhappi on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
i would totally love a dress tutorial. It pretty easy to fudge your way and alter a dress so it fits a little better once you get the basic dress form down.
By becca on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
Shirt, I think you may be right about the dress fit issues. Thank you for all you do you’re amazing! I vote for the glimpse of paradise top, I love it!
By Melanie on Mar 23, 2010 | Reply
a simple dress would be great! your dresses are beautiful and unique.
By Erika on Mar 24, 2010 | Reply
Oh Lex, this looks so pretty! I love white too, and I LOVE this dress!!!
Hugs, Erika
By Emily on Mar 24, 2010 | Reply
I love the dress you made! It looks so beautiful and is probably perfect to throw on for a mom who doesn’t have a lot of time but wants to look nice…I’m in love with it!
By Ana on Mar 24, 2010 | Reply
I vote dress!!! I like the white one but I really love the lacy back you made!!!!!
By Ana on Mar 24, 2010 | Reply
Ok totally read that post wrong!!! You didnt make that dress. sorry! But I am pretty sure you could make it!!:)
By rebekah on Mar 24, 2010 | Reply
DRESS please!!!
By grace on Mar 24, 2010 | Reply
i also vote for dress. and i can’t seem to comment on your anthropologie post but the dress i’d love to see is:
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?subCategoryId=CLOTHES-DRESSES-PRINTED&id=030017&catId=CLOTHES-DRESSES&pushId=CLOTHES-DRESSES&popId=CLOTHES&sortProperties=&navCount=50&navAction=top&fromCategoryPage=true&selectedProductSize=&selectedProductSize1=&color=008&colorName=GREY%20MOTIF&isSubcategory=true&isProduct=true&isBigImage=&templateType=
it’s the slate stripes shift.
and, like a previous commenter asked, is this dress good for nursing? thanks for the great work!
By Emily on Mar 27, 2010 | Reply
please show us how to make that dress!!! It’s so pretty and looks amazing on you! Even just a more simple version would be fine! =)
By Melissa, ThoseAlaskanGirls on Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Hi Alexis, Can you tell me what kind of boots you are wearing here? Also I have a small world story for you… A few weeks ago, I went with a friend to a girls night out where I was meeting most of the girls for the first time. They all commented on a top I was wearing, that has blush pink rosettes on the neckline. I started telling them about how easy it would be to make, and then I mentioned that I followed a blog (yours) that could teach them how to refashion in all sorts of ways… Well, one of the girls (Katy) knew you from childhood! Definitely wasn’t expecting to make any connection like that in Ketchikan Alaska!
. She was curious how i knew you, and I had to explain that I found your blog through Etsy back in the mymamamadeit days! Pretty Crazy!!