I'm super excited to show you a Shabby Apple Dress design called 'Ocean Breeze' that David and I have been working on for the Shabby Apple Dare to Design contest. The contest is to create a design and the top 15 designs will be chosen and readers will vote on their favourite. The winner's design will get made into an actual dress for the spring 2012 line!!!
Super exciting!!!
My dress design features a heart-shaped bodice with a small contrast collar, wonderfully draped sleeves and a flare skirt. I'm picturing it in a nice rayon crepe or even wool crepe--something with a medium body but good drape. The collar could be in white pique or another crisp fabric.
I was inspired by looks from 1933-1934, 1939-1941 and the 1950s. This dress combines all my favourite elements of those decades. Here's a bit of an inspiration board that led to the creation of the design:
I was also influenced by the Patone spring 2012 colour palette (which is very similar to the 1939 palette pictured above):
This dress has been designed in the 'scuba blue' colour (or the much prettier 'romance aqua' of the 1939 colour palette) with white contrast. I think it would be the perfect spring dress!! I really hope our design gets picked as I would love to sew up a sample dress!!
What do you think?
