Sarah's ball gown part 2

Continuing with the fun sleeves, these are the lower sleeves, which will have pearl buttons, not screen correct but cute.















The entire sleeve is made of up of three yards of fabric and then gathered with a gathering stitch, even with three yards, the sleeves were not as big as I wanted them to be. How did Sarah (Jennifer) manage them?

Both sleeves attached.

Pearl trim at the top.

Now onto the skirt:

The top layer of the skirt consisted of 6 yards thin white sheen fabric, plus 8 yards shiny tulle. The skirt is a basic dirndl skirt patten, with only one seam on each layer.
















I plan on adding a very large and filling petticoat to go over the crinoline (hoop skirt) and underneath the top two layers of the skirt. In this picture, the skirt has only the crinoline as support which has proven to be too small.

After these pictures were taken, I attached the skirt to the bodice and inserted an invisible zipper which turned out to be a very large mistake as the dress will now not fit and zip up at all. I need to remove the zipper and perhaps add grommets/ eyelets instead so that it is adjustable. More work, but then again, who ever says no to a lace up back fairy tale ball gown?