Sexy Navy Uniform

If you follow my Twitter, you have probably seen a lot of whining/hating/happiness about a navy dress I was sewing for Coco. It all started months ago, even before the hanbok, when I decided I wanted to do this dress... I was mainly drawn to it by the idea of the neck/cleavage line. Originally, the dress was going to be indigo blue and old golden, but then -after a suggestion- switched to red, blue and white, as they are more "navy" colors. The dress looks pretty... French? with all those colors, but I don't mind. Coco's character is French.

I will be doing a separated blog post about the handmade shoes, with a little story attached to it and if everything goes right another post with another photo (if I'm able to take it as I want it to look) and a more detailed story attached to it, too.

Anyways. I finished the garrison hat today, and was so excited about the whole look of the dress, that I completely forgot to glue to it the boat-golden-decoration that hubby helped me to prepare. I took tons of pictures, and then I realized my mistake, and glue it. Gonna take pictures later and add them to this blog.

This dress took me so much time to sew it, because I was trying a new type of hand-sewn stitch, that doesn't require me to do the top-stitching, but it is slow as hell. And the neck line. That was a major pain to make that work with Coco's boobs because as always I didn't want them to look bobbling fake, but natural pushed.

Also, the dress is fully lined, and that took me a lot of time to do.

I'm sorry for the lack of awesome poses, but I went a little bit crazy with the tightness of the dress (as you could see on the profile shot), and Coco can barely move her legs, so no ultra-model pose with her legs for this dress.

Also, here are some close ups of the handmade shoes (incoming post about them, later this week):

Well, and that was all. I will add the update with the garrison ha with the boat pin later, hopefully, tomorrow. In the meantime, have some more Coco at vintage style:

EDIT: here I have a pic of the finished hat!! :D I love how it looks with the golden boat pin on it.