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market for her one-of-a-kind dresses which no one makes anymore.
Mrs. Bailey explains the origins of each unique dress, “The dresses evolve from accents, such as piping, buttons, lace and embroidered trim. I see them and develop a dress out of it. I’ve used old mother-of-pearl buttons from vintage stores. I use oldlooking or vintage lace. I get the fabric from a lot of different sources.”
Mrs. Bailey makes dresses for baby girls up to 12 years olds, but she enjoys the ones ages eight and under the best. Mrs. Bailey spends six to 12 hours on the average dress.
She confesses, “I can’t sew by a pattern, I have to embellish. Always in the back of my head are designs that I like to do. I have periodic phases of needing to be creative and going into a sewing frenzy.”
“Nowadays the skirts are too long and narrow. I adjust patterns to make the skirts super-full. Many of mine are 180 inches «round the bottom with 180 inches of ruffling on them. I use four yards of material in
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