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For those of you just tuning in…
Project Pomway Episode 1: The Beginning of My Dream Dress
Project Pomway Episode 2: Boobilicious!

I returned to Carole’s studio for another fitting just last week. Now that the upper regions of the gown have been fitted, we’ve begun the design of the lower portion of the dress. I’ll start by telling you that the inspiration dress was designed as a sheath dress, but I knew that I - unlike the skinny little model who was wearing the inspiration dress - was much wider in the hip area and would do best with a little tweaking of the shape.

WARNING - IF YOUR NAME IS MR. POMEGRANATE AND YOU ARE MARRYING ME DO NOT CONTINUE READING!

It’s like Carole read my mind! When I showed up to try on the newest version of the dress, she had created the skirt in a creamy yellow silk shantung test fabric (my final dress will be all white). The shape of the dress was more of a modified trumpet that followed the curve of my hips and flared out above my knees. This would accentuate my waist and gave me less of the “sausage in a tube” look that long sheath dresses tend to give me.

A sneak peak of the skirt in a butter cream colored silk shantung.
I was having a bad hair day, so I cut my head off.

Sadly, it was a smidgen too short (Carole underestimated how tall my shoes would be) so I didn’t get a good idea of what the train will look like. I’m very excited for my next fitting where she’ll have a longer sample for me to try on. There will be another surprise along the hem, but I imagine I won’t see the beginning of that until the following fitting. My favorite part so far, is the triangle-shaped opening in the back.

You can see the back of the dress in the mirror behind me.

I’ve titled this episode The Yellow Submarine because I feel a little self-conscious about my belly area in the dress. I know that the double-faced satin will hang differently and that it will be fully-lined - but as it is currently, you can see the submarine’s control tower (AKA my belly button) quite easily through the fabric. While you can’t see it very easily in the above photos, it’s semi-obvious in person. I’ve considered band-aids, Spanx, and duct tape as options to cover it up.

Does anyone have any good suggestions on how to cover up my belly button so that it doesn’t show through my dress?