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14th April

Julie is making my First Holy Communion dress.

I love Cruiseguy's material.

Oh my Lord, that granny crochet neckline 🤮

@SoupDragon

How is something so loose "made to measure"?

That's the funny thing- if you don't make it right and don't put darts in the right placea, it just ends up looking like a giant sack. You have to know where to go loose and where to fit.

I might need to make something with Broderie Anglaise

Oh god Damien is making a 70s porn dress

Good ol' Damien!

Hammering a dress together.

Surely if you're on this show you order the material weeks in advance and look at it before the morning of the challenge. Not there and then realise you're borderie Anglaise material has too big a hole in it thus needing lining

Damian, 70s curtain material.

Every single one of these would make look as big and round as a bowling ball

I've never heard of them either. I'd probably hear it as 'loose-fitting Buffy dress' and make something very 1990s in baggy lilac satin, paired with a crucifix and clunky black heels.

Yes I couldn't possibly wear one

@Roussette

Every single one of these would make look as big and round as a bowling ball

You would be very fashionable! Because that's the whole point of a buffet dress.

Gosh... vicar's partner.... hate the material of his dress, a dead ringer for one of my old mum's tablecloths

I don't like bell sleeves.

I always get them in the gravy.

Love Lawratu's fabric

@EsmaCannonball

I've never heard of them either. I'd probably hear it as 'loose-fitting Buffy dress' and make something very 1990s in baggy lilac satin, paired with a crucifix and clunky black heels.

Is this gypsy dresses renamed for the PC generation? I ahve always called these either Boho or Gypsy dresses.

Love the pockets - lots of room for hiding food at the buffet 😂

Rooting for French man here.

dilitte You are being too kind. It would be a horror I promise!

Looks more voluminous to me

All the younger women at work wear these dresses. Lots of flounce and ruffles.

@Piggywaspushed

Is this gypsy dresses renamed for the PC generation? I ahve always called these either Boho or Gypsy dresses.

Yes - I'd call them a gypsy dress, too.

I'd call them prairie dresses. Never heard of a buffet dress.