{"id":1130,"date":"2011-01-18T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/making-a-dress-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T02:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T02:13:00","slug":"making-a-dress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Making a Dress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TPu2LllpTsI\/AAAAAAAACng\/P6JtJGEIYHA\/angieandstacie.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"493\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TPu2LllpTsI\/AAAAAAAACng\/P6JtJGEIYHA\/angieandstacie.png\" width=\"640\"><\/a><span>(photo of my pregnant sister and I, and the only full body shot of my dress) <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I love pretty dresses. But I really don&#8217;t like trying them on (who&#8217;s with me, ladies?). I have 3 favorite dresses (2 of which are pictured here) that I wear practically every time I see someone and want to look dynamite. All 3 are cut very similarly with an empire waist and a skirt that falls just to my knees.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TPu2LllpTsI\/AAAAAAAACng\/P6JtJGEIYHA\/angieandstacie.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S8uDg_Q4_9I\/AAAAAAAABIM\/FbtyTWXo1Jo\/s640\/photo%204.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S8uDg_Q4_9I\/AAAAAAAABIM\/FbtyTWXo1Jo\/s1600\/photo%204.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>So it hit me that perhaps I should try to use one of these dresses as a pattern and simply make my own! Wouldn&#8217;t that be lovely? I am no professional seamstress, but I think I will give it a shot, just to say that I tried (and possibly add to my wardrobe). Plus I could use pretty fabrics and feel uber posh. You know, because French Posh Chic is very in this season, no? (kidding)<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever thought about starting from scratch and making a garment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo of my pregnant sister and I, and the only full body shot of my dress) I love pretty dresses. But I really don&#8217;t like trying them on (who&#8217;s with me, ladies?). I have 3 favorite dresses (2 of which are pictured here) that I wear practically every time I see someone and want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}