Prom Night

Is is just me or do the girls today seem much prettier - I like to think it's the later.

Who wouldn't want to design for beautiful girls like this.  Gorgeous smile and that wonderful twinkle in her eye.  Mary Ellen brought me a short dress that she loved and we did this long version in a red, just a shade deeper than a true crimson red.  With her gorgeous dark hair and light skin, she looked like a million bucks!

Her date was a good sport while her mother and I clicked away - this was practice for the paparazzi which her mother and I will soon be members!  Digital cameras are so much fun for us paparazzi-wannabes!

What I try to do is make a dress that is fun for the night, but also something that she can wear again and again.  It's amazing how much she will need a dress like this in college.  Even if she decides she wants something short - this dress works for that:  she can wear it with a jacket and voila - perfect for Christmas Eve service, take the jacket off - it's a fabulous evening/cocktail dress.

What a difference from my day - OK it's just after the Ice Ages - and yes, this is me! (No wild catcalls please, and keep the wolf whistles to a minimum!)

The dress fit like an Audrey-Hepburn dream however I hadn't learned all there was to know about color - redheads should NEVER wear pink (and that's in my best Mommie Dearest voice!!!) NEVER!  That flip hairdo is enough to curl anyone's toes - it took forever to get that thing to defy gravity that well - and a lot of Aquanet!!!