How to Make Your Own Prom Dress

Trying very hard to make your prom dress unique? Then you have to simply cancel the plan of following your friends to the same store from where they are deciding to buy their prom dresses! Why go along the crowd when you can be the proud owner of a beautiful prom dress that is stitched exactly to your specifications? Try to make your own prom dress that can make even the most expensive of dresses look pale in comparison. All you require to have while doing it is a little bit of sewing skill and loads of imagination to go along with it. This article will help you in making your prom dress on your own. The How to Make Your Own Prom Dress things that are necessary for making the dress are as follows:

Fashion magazines
Sketchbook
Muslin
Sewing equipment
Fabric
Dress pattern
Notions

So without waiting any further let us know all the important steps that are needed to be followed while making your prom dress on your own. The guide given below will help in making the task easier and simpler:

The most important thing while making your own prom dress is to find a design that is fashionable and also unique in nature. Go through as many fashion magazines or prom magazines as you can to get an idea about the designs of beautiful evening wears and formal dresses. Zero in on a basic shape and style.
Now you have to visit your local fabric store or browse through the several websites for choosing a pattern of the evening dress that you desire to wear. You can choose Vogue and Butte Rick that deal with complicated patterns or can go for Simplicity and New Look if you want easier patterns. However keep in mind that you can always alter the length of the skirt, sleeves and embellishments later.
Now you have to sketch the dress in detail incorporating your original idea and pattern that you are wishing to use. You have to decide how the dress would actually look like.
Now you have to design a test version of the dress in muslin by following the specifications. Place the muslin dress on your body at every stage possible while sewing it so that it fits you properly. This muslin dress has to be now used as a pattern for a real dress.
Now you have to add colors to the sketch. Choose any colors that you desire. You have to take this sketch to a fabric store and then choose the trim, lining and notions that match your liking and dress.
Make the whole dress out of the fabric by using the muslin as pieces of pattern. However you have to put the dress on before you attach any lining, trims or hemming.
You have to now finish the dress. You can hand stitch the trims and embellishments if you want neatness.
After you dress is complete, you shall have to test sit in it and dance around wearing it so that you are sure that it makes you comfortable while wearing it the whole evening of the prom. Incase you do not find the fabric that you are wanting your prom dress to be stitched in, you can also find them online on EBay, Fabrics.Net or NY Fashion Center Fabrics.