When I began making dresses for this production, between the Baroness and the Samba, I KNEW I had a perfect dress to use for pieces: This dress has been in my stash a long time . . . I bought it when my kids were in middle school, and were still excited about dressing up…
The fourth Bombie Samba chorus dress was embellished using organza table runners from Tableclothfactory.com. The table runners are 14″ wide and 108″ long, which makes them a great size for creating ruffles. The really nice thing about them is that all the edges come pre-finished, which makes the project really zip along. I began with a black…
The third Bombie Samba back-up dancer dress began with another one of those “gotta buy it” perfect base dresses. This is probably a late 80’s/early 90’s black taffeta ruffled party dress. It has a boned bodice, a reasonably modest neckline, and a stretchy back which is great for flexible sizing. It has three tiers of…
This is the second Bombie Samba dress I made for the “backup dancers”. I was continuing with the theme of black dress and red ruffles. For this outfit, I began with a black sequin peplum top. The sleeveless top had a scoop neck, a zip back and an almost-circle peplum. My first step was to…
This Production is using five couples in addition to the Baron and Baroness for the Bombie Samba routine. I believe the guys are wearing black tux outfits. My instructions were to continue the red/black theme, and to give the girls hi-low skirts to accommodate the choreography. I opted to dress all the chorus dancers in…
Have you ever had a project that upon completion you say “I am NEVER doing that again????” Well . . this one comes really close to that. However . . . . it did turn out pretty cool, and so I probably would . . . but with modifications! And I am more than happy…
Do you know that sense of excitement when you walk into a thrift store . . . and you see THE DRESS . . . hanging RIGHT THERE . . . and you sort of nonchalantly sidle over to it . . . not wanting to show too much interest in case some runs in…
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