I do not make my dresses at all, but I did see his point. In the spring and summer I tend to wear cotton dresses with large prints--white and green, white and blue, white and citron--that could very well be made from sheeting.
Perhaps I could make some floaty dresses from these Garnet Hill sheets:
Or perhaps even from curtains, depending on the thickness of the fabric.
Making dresses from curtains is nothing new, as Maria (not yet von Trapp) will tell you:
Here is one of the curtain dresses from The Sound of Music up for auction:
Scarlett O'Hara also knew a thing or two about transforming curtains . . .
as did Carol Burnett's Scarlett:
I like this Bob Mackie sketch of Burnett's dress:
And I've always like his signature.
*Top image from trueup.net
I haven't yet made anything out of actual curtains or bed linen, but I do buy fabric that's designed for household linens and make dresses out of it. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteIn fact I once bought an argyle patterned cotton so similar to our bed linen and made a maxi dress with it,that my partner anxiously asked me what happed to our bed linen.
That definitely counts!
ReplyDeleteI too have bought fabric that was designed for household linens to make dresses, and when I was in my 20's I made a few dresses out of actual sheets. I've thought about it since, but haven't yet taken the plunge again.
ReplyDeleteI've always adored Carol Burnett in that dress.