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Captain America Cocktail Dress
The original piece of awesome art was made by Kelsey Michele on Deviant Art (http://kelseymichele.deviantart.com/art/Avengers-Gowns-Thor-and-Captain-America-305808542 ). She used The Avengers as inspiration, by turning their costumes/looks into gorgeous evening wear. Of course I fell in love with Cap's 50's style cocktail dress.

My main goal for this dress was to be able to wear it as a dress, and not let it become something that looked like a costume only. I wanted it to look like fashion. I used a royal blue Duchess Satin and a Royal Blue poly chiffon. The chiffon was a bit more purple in hue than the satin, but once laid over the satin, it looked more blue. It's actually nice to see a color shift of lighter blue under the darker chiffon as the dress moves.

I started with Vintage Vogue pattern V1094 as a base. I was going to make this a back zipper dress, but after looking at the pattern and seeing finished dresses, this design is better suited to the original side zip the pattern calls for. Instead of making the lining layer 4 panels and the chiffon layer in 6, I made the whole thing in six. I serged the top edge of the layers together, and then box pleated the entire waist line. The original pattern called for gathers, but I felt the pleats looked better and more polished.
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Hey! I saw your dress and fell in love with it, I'm a die hard Caltain America fan, and also in my final year of schooling, which means formal is fast approaching. I'm planning on making your dress for my formal  (with proper credit given to you<3) and I just wanted to know if you have any hints or tips for me (THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS DRESS A REALITY)
 - Breanna, Sun, 6 Apr 2014 2:23PM
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http://kelseymichele.deviantart.com/art/Avengers-Gowns-Thor-and-Captain-America-305808542

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Fabrics, shoes, and head piece.

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Silk star burst fabric.  This was all white, and I had to take half and dye it red.

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Stars for the bodice.  I'll be adding rhinestones to these to jazz them up.

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Bejeweled stars (pinned on the bodice).

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The dress before it was trimmed down for hemming and the bodice drape was added.

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The finished dress base.  Since I wanted to be able to wear the dress, the red and white bodice will be an underbust corset instead.

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Fabrics for the corset pinned to the dress.

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The dress and shoes.  I was having a bad hair day, so my head is cropped off lol.

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Photo by David Ng
June 23, 2013
Bryant Park
http://www.ng-master.com/cm/thumbnails.php?album=885

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Photo by David Ng
June 23, 2013
Bryant Park
http://www.ng-master.com/cm/thumbnails.php?album=885

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Photo by David Ng
June 23, 2013
Bryant Park
http://www.ng-master.com/cm/thumbnails.php?album=885

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Photo by David Ng
June 23, 2013
Times Square
http://www.ng-master.com/cm/thumbnails.php?album=885

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Photo by David Ng
June 23, 2013
Times Square
http://www.ng-master.com/cm/thumbnails.php?album=885

 
   
 
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