Last week I got this wonderful email from Clarissa, who wanted to tell me about her first major project: her junior prom dress.
Not just any junior prom dress: Clarissa, as so many of us are, is infatuated with Audrey Hepburn, and she wanted to recreate (on a scale appropriate for a junior prom) this iconic dress from "Sabrina":
With some help from her mom (a former home-ec teacher -- thanks mom!), Clarissa modified a Vogue pattern to get this:
Isn't it lovely? The overskirt attaches by a waistband, so it can be removed for less-formal occasions. I love that Clarissa didn't try to completely recreate the Audrey dress (that way lies tears, I tell you -- it probably took a team of people three months to make that dress) but concentrated on the essential elements: the sheath and overskirt, the colors, and the embroidery. (Clarissa had the front embroidery done professionally, as she doesn't have an embroidery sewing machine.)
And she was so smart to turn it into a sheath with straps; I wore a strapless dress to a prom once and spent the whole night tugging it UPWARDS. Not what you want to be doing at prom!
In short, well done! I'm especially impressed by any young lady who chooses to look so elegant, when there are so many options to look ... not-elegant.
Also: those are really cute shoes.
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