novazembla: I’m altering a dress. As a friend of mine would say (though probably not about tailoring), “Shit just got tangible.” I ordered this dress two weeks ago, and since then I’ve looked at this picture probably every day out of gleeful anticipation. There may also have been dreamy sighing. The only problem with this is that once it finally arrived and I put it on, the long, tiny-waisted mannequin’s figure had long since burned into my brain. Then I had that conversation with myself about how I’ve bought a dress, not another person’s body (a few clues being that a body would probably be more expensive, and would probably be shipped on ice, and would also be really gross), so yes, it will look slightly different based on torso length and what I affectionately refer to as THE SPHERE FACTOR. (It sounds like a Michael Crichton novel, right?) I will be aware of this psychological phenomenon in the future, and if I cannot avoid obsessing over pretty things coming to me in the mail, I’ll doctor the image to more closely approximate reality. DONE. That said, tailoring an article of clothing while it’s on you is a challenge, especially when you have trouble reaching all the way around your Catwoman-boobs. Official birthday wish: dress form! Is that site for real? Because if it is, I see a whole bouquet of dresses that fit my rack of doom coming soon to a closet near me.

novazembla:

I’m altering a dress. As a friend of mine would say (though probably not about tailoring), “Shit just got tangible.”

I ordered this dress two weeks ago, and since then I’ve looked at this picture probably every day out of gleeful anticipation. There may also have been dreamy sighing.

The only problem with this is that once it finally arrived and I put it on, the long, tiny-waisted mannequin’s figure had long since burned into my brain. Then I had that conversation with myself about how I’ve bought a dress, not another person’s body (a few clues being that a body would probably be more expensive, and would probably be shipped on ice, and would also be really gross), so yes, it will look slightly different based on torso length and what I affectionately refer to as THE SPHERE FACTOR. (It sounds like a Michael Crichton novel, right?) I will be aware of this psychological phenomenon in the future, and if I cannot avoid obsessing over pretty things coming to me in the mail, I’ll doctor the image to more closely approximate reality. DONE.

That said, tailoring an article of clothing while it’s on you is a challenge, especially when you have trouble reaching all the way around your Catwoman-boobs. Official birthday wish: dress form!

Is that site for real? Because if it is, I see a whole bouquet of dresses that fit my rack of doom coming soon to a closet near me.

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