FOR SALE -Red performance dress

This dress is currently being finished and is BRAND NEW.

****SOLD!!*****

Red velour and white lace with golden accents. Lining is white satin, cape is white satin. The dress has a soft skirt that is embroidered all around the hemline. See picture below for a better impression of the deep red color and the sleeve material.

This is a perfect dress for irish dance performances, beginner dancers, or showdancers!

Actual dress measurements:

Bust: 94 cm -- 37"
Waist (natural): 76 cm -- 30"
Lowered waist: 92 cm -- 36"
shoulder to natural waist: 42 cm -- 16.5"
shoulder to lowered waist: 48 cm -- 18.5"
skirtlength: 36 cm -- 14"
Overall length (shoulder to hem): 84 cm -- 33"

If you are 2.5cm or 1 inch smaller in bust and waist this dress will fit you perfectly!

*****SALE PENDING****

Asking 225 euro plus shipping from the Netherlands.
Please email me for more details, or leave a comment below.

Red color without flash with sleeve material:

Purple, copper and cream solo for sale

Elegant solo, suitable for primary/intermediate. One-off design by Lowland Design, made in 2006. The base fabric is a unique purple polyshantung, that changes colour from reddish to blueish purple, depending on the light.
Applique is done in cream embroidered organza with silver dots, orange metallic silk and white bridal satin. Lining of the skirt is satin, same colour as the organza. Bodice is fully lined with cotton. Dress comes with tiara backing, puffy headband and Antonio Pacelli dress bag. No bloomers, since it was worn with tights.
Dress was taking in due to weight loss and can easily be taken out again: approx. 1.5-2" around chest and lowered waist, 3" around natural waist.

Chest: 38.50 inch (97.79 cm)
Waist: 32.50 inch (82.55 cm)
Skirt Length: 19.00 inch (48.26 cm)
Sleeve Length: 25.00 inch (63.50 cm)
Neck (top of zipper) to waist: 16.00 inch (40.64 cm)
Shoulder to shoulder (across back): 16.00 inch (40.64 cm)
Overall Length of Dress: 32.50 inch (82.55 cm)

Condition: Very Good
Price: €750.00 EUR plus shipping
Location: Netherlands
Includes: Dress Cover
Includes: Tiara/Crown

This picture conveys the true dress colors best:


Picture from 2006, before it was taken in:


Please email with any questions or leave a comment below.

Congratulations!

Janna and Magdalena, congratulations on your great 3rd & 4th placement!

Tulip solo for sale!

Elegant 4 panel, 2-piece dress with tulip design. The base is made of lilac taft with a stitched texture. Applique is silver sewn sequin and turquoise lame. The sleeves and cape are a white taft with silver stitched sequin pattern. Lining is silver holographic lame and the pleat panels have silver holographic "cracked glass" squares.
Dress was made in 2006 by Lowland Design and has been worn 8 times.
Comes with extra base, applique and skirt lining fabric pieces. comes with a tiara liner/crown. I have no bloomers, but these can be made with the extra lining fabric provided.
There is some light wear on one of the applique flowers in the back pleats of the skirt. This is not noticable from stage (or closer) as this part is hidden in the skirt pleat.

To fit a dancer with sizes:

Bust:36
waist:30
skirt:17
sleeve: 23
collarbone to natural waist: 15

Asking 380 euro plus shipping from the Netherlands. I'm open to offers. This dress can be seen and tried on at the Munich Feis (Germany) this weekend!

Please email me or leave a comment for more pictures or info on this dress.

Sabrina & Magdalena

Finally have some time to post on the blog! Truth is I have been quite busy with school skirts, alterations and 2 dress orders to be finished this saturday. The red and pink dress is for Sabrina and the orange for Magdalena. They were already ordered some time ago and got picked up today by one of the two dancers. I was so busy finishing off the details I nearly forgot to take a picture! Unfortunately, I have no picture of the orange one completely finished. The sleeves are just pinned on in the picture below, and I have no pic of the backside, sorry! Every time I do these I forget to take pictures...luckily, this time I was reminded by the dancers themselves they would really like to see what they were going to get before the pickup :-)

Next one up is a blue one :-)

multipanel pattern drafting

There have been a lot of requests on the boards lately on how to draw a multipanel skirt pattern. I have taken the liberty of showing the basic recipe that I use to draw my panels. It is available as a pdf-document for the price of $1 US (payable through paypal). This is not a ready-to-use pattern - It is a method I use to draw my own patterns. In the example I show a 4-panel being drawn, but this concept can apply to any number of panels!

If you are interested in the pdf, please send me an email and I will contact you.

For Nadine

To be ready for the WIDA championships in March...

Danielle's dress is ready!

Here is just a quick picture taken of the finished dress right before it was shipped off to the USA.
A little info:
The base fabrics is a black swirl fabric is a mesh overlay with gold sequins. Underneath the black overlay is a standard black satin.
The purple brocade is used for the panels and back skirt. The lining of the dress is holographic gold shimmer lame. All these were bought in England, from whitelodgefabric.com as is the sequined lace for the sleeves.The gold foil with dots for the applique came from a local dutch fabric market.
The inside of the sleeves was lined with a cream satin to give some support to the sleeves and balance the color of the yellow/gold lace.
The panels are done in a car-wash-hem style.

Happy Holidays!

Lowland Design wishes You

Congratulations!!

Congratulations for Ashley who came third in the Oireachtas!



And second in her solo results!