dance dress tips and ideas

[sknoerr]

Yes, circle skirts do tend to fly up - but they are so pretty when the dancer twirls. We use Valery Henry's culotte pattern to make culottes for underneath our skirts - then we can twirl to our heart's content without worrying about being immodest. We have also taken her pattern for the full circle skirt and modified it into a nine panel skirt with an elastic waistband. The panels create less bias stretch, and the elastic waistband is more versatile than a regular waistband.



Our basic garments consist of culottes, skirt and blouse and then we use a variety of different ephods to add interest to the garments. We modified a vintage apron pattern to become our ephod patterns and have created three different styles using that one pattern.



As for a double or triple circle skirt - silkessence material would work very well.



Sandy Knoerr