Wedding Togs

I’ve had a great time going through some 1500 photos from my database—seeing people that I haven’t thought about in a while and being reminded of things that I made that, again, I’d forgotten I’d done.  So I as I restart this blogging thing, I’m going to post some pictures of random people, places and things from recent times and the past (sometimes more distant than others).

Let’s start with Susan Marsal’s wedding dress and Scott Petry’s tuxedo.  I found some tiny, tiny images that didn’t show much.  Digging through only two boxes of photos turned up the originals.  They still aren’t great because it was an 1970’s point and shoot camera, but at least you don’t need a magnifying glass to see them.

Susan and I became fast friends at Apple and I was more than honored to be asked to make her wedding dress.  By today’s standards, the number of options for wedding dress patterns was pretty limited, and Susan’s taste leans toward the more practical than prissy.  In the end, I think being able to try on my 1988 Apple party dress and see how it looked sealed the deal.  The fabric was a lovely embroidered silk taffeta for the bodice and embroidered silk organza for the skirt, with a crepe de chine underskirt—all from Britex Fabrics in San Francisco.

In contrast, Scott Petry liked to stand out in a crowd (height notwithstanding).  He wanted an unusual tuxedo to wear to Susan’s wedding.  The first fabric he chose was Hawai’ian dancing girls.  I put the kaybash on that.  Instead we both agreed on a bright not-too-feminine floral fabric.  I used a basic men’s jacket pattern with an adapted shawl collar from another woman’s pattern.  The trousers were ready-to-wear with a matching fabric strip sewn on the outseam.