1930's Dress : Flaws & Fixes

Angela, I wonder if your fabric would stop warping if you folded it for storage, rather than hanging it? Viscose rayon is notorious for distorting the minute any weight is put on it. By folding the dress and storing it on a shelf or in a drawer supported by tissue paper, you remove the weight factor and hopefully eliminate the warping. The dress is adorable and looks great on you. Kudos for persevering.

Thank you for the video! I love watching your videos while I hand sew (right now I'm completing a 1940s dress and hand-binding all of the seams). Even if you don't like the dress, I bet that you could sell it on Etsy; it's really cute!

Bodice not notice!

You did a marvellous job of fixing the notices problems and it's such a shame that the fabric behaved like that. Even though I think it looks lovely on you and not at all matronly I completely understand that it doesn't matter how beautiful the dress is said to be if you don't feel it yourself, it just doesn't work! Looking forward to seeing the bonus sewing project!

also i wonder if the fabric itself might be the probelm maybe a bad batch of fabric?

OMG! Seeing that dress on you reminds me of a picture of my nanna! She had that exact same yellow mum dress!!

Love the video and the dress! However I don't understand how you're always loosing so much footage! Stupid technology, right? You're working with way more content than I ever do on my channel, so I'm sure that creates a bigger possibility for problems. But I don't think its normal for memory cards to just delete or loose footage. I hope there is a solution for you, because it seems like almost every video is giving you problems and I can't imagine how frustrating that is! Best of luck!

Thank you so much for this video - I feel like a significant part of being a home sewist is ending up with a garment that doesn't fit or look right and wondering what to change in order to fix it, but there are very few videos actually showing how a professional like you would approach the issues.

I'm always so impressed of your patience, if this was a project of mine I would've screamed and throw it out the window. I think it's a beautiful dress albeit cursed, it's too bad you don't feel comfortable in it because the style is so pretty on you (but i understand what you mean) because I'd love to see you make a new one in a non-cursed fabric - but if you don't like it then you shouldn't :)

you might try a 'heavy' fabric panel as a border and constant weight might stop it from random warping.

I'm sorry you spent so much time only to discover you didn't like the dress; that has to be very frustrating :/ I can completely understand how you must feel knowing so many other people like it but also knowing it's not your style and not something you're comfortable in. Ultimately the most important thing is for you to be comfortable in the clothes you wear, and if that's not this dress, then it's not this dress. Hopefully you were able to get something positive from the experience, like new methods you'd like to incorporate into other projects and/or an increase in your skills, so the experience doesn't seem entirely negative. Thank you for sharing the video, I enjoyed seeing your fixing process a lot. I can't wait to see what you share next!!

It's a shame that it continues to warp so dramatically. I think the style is very flattering and I would be interested to see how it would have worked in a different fabric type. At the end of the day though it is far more important that you like how you look than it is other people liking something.

You work so hard and your dedication really shows, even when projects don't go how you expect, you still create magic. These videos were exactly what I needed today! Thank you!

Hi Angela: Yeah, that looked like a lot of work. I have sewn with rayon, and it’s a warpy annoying fabric that look great until it gets misshaped. Kudos on your efforts, what a pretty dress!

I really enjoyed watching this, even though I can TOTALLY understand your frustration. I'm not a terribly experienced sewer (9 months yeah!), but even I can clearly see this fabric's, erm, insanity. The dress looks much nicer this time, belt and bodice especially, but this is the sort of thing, I think, where if YOU do not feel your best wearing it? That's it. i don't think it's matronly, truly, but it isn't a style you feel comfy with, and so -- fascinating to see this video and the alteration one too, and now -- onward. Best, best wishes!

that fabric must be possessed or something. it's so weird that it keeps warping like that. O.o the repairs look lovely, i'm just sad for you that they didn't last.

I think it looks lovely and very flattering on you however I understand making something and hating it and having everyone else tell you it looks good, I've had that experience and though the compliments are sweet and well intended, they don't really matter if you don't feel good in it. Also apparently that fabric is endless, I have never heard of a fabric warping so endlessly, it's pretty ridiculous and I hope it was just that cut if fabric and that it doesn't happen to you again, I can only imagine how frustrating it must've been, I don't think I'd have had the patience to spend time on the repairs, I'd be too angry at the fabric, so you are stronger than I am.

On the one hand, that amount of warping is very frustrating, on the other you may have discovered infinite fabric. The matching belt definitely helps the over-all look. I really like elements of this dress but can completely understand not loving wearing it.

That is absolutely insane! How does fabric even warp that much?? For as long as they lasted the fixes looked super good!! The switching of the belt and the lining definitely helped the overall look of it!!