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From: Raevenflyte
Date: 06-15-2005, 11:49 PM (1 of 2)
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Hi all--I'd appreciate any guidance you'd have about this: I have a long dress from Flax (a brand, not a fabric) that is so long, it caught in the wheels of my office chair and ripped a 2" square hole about five inches above the hem. It can't be darned--there's no fabric or threads within the hole for this, and I can't find a matching fabric to patch the hole without it looking like, well, a patch. So I thought I'd cut the dress and re-hem it above the hole, and my question is this: Do I just cut the dress in a straight line and hem it like any other hem or do I cut the dress on a curve and then hem it? Does anyone know what I'm saying? Seems like I'd just be able to cut the dress and hem it and be done, but this is the first time I've done such a thing to a RTW dress (and I've only done one other hem, on a skirt from a pattern). What do you think? Thanks again! R |
User: Raevenflyte
Member since: 03-16-2005 Total posts: 32 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 06-16-2005, 07:54 AM (2 of 2)
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If it hangs straight and is simple, as I expect a FLAX dress would, I'd just measure, cut and hem. Every year near here FLAX has a huge barn sale with big boxes of clothes for outrageous prices. My daughter and I were in New York City a couple weeks ago and she was wearing about $30 worth of clothes from that sale and went into a shop in Soho that sells FLAX and realized she was wearing at least a $90 outfit -- on sale. Last year they had fabric at the sale but this year no fabric. I was very disappointed. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
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