Lady In Red......

Last week I told you that I received this fabric for a gift and I wanted to make a dress for Eid which is the holiday that immediately follows Ramadan.  My goal is to use the fabric on the left.  It's a little too flowery for me, but it will be fine for here.  We will go visiting lots of friends of the hospital and I want to make a dress.  Some will wear pretty crazy dresses (like the prom for us) and others will wear more of traditional type dress.  Anyway, I need a style that is conservative enough for visiting families here but also fun and I don't want it to look like crap on me.  Silky fabric can be tricky for women with hips!  I knwo most people don't set out with the goal of getting a dress that looks bogus when they put it on, but I'm just sayin'.

Anyway, can you help me come up with a style that might work well for me? It needs to be long. It can be sleeveless and then I can wear a sweater or something with it. Otherwise it can have sleeves to be a bit more conservative. I'm not trying to look like a woman in a jean jumper, though --you know what I mean, right?!

I was looking through some dresses at this website.  What do you think?  Could any of them be made long?

I looked at Banana Republic, too for dresses and found a few I like. Some of the short dresses I could make long and some of the long dresses aren't so bad.

Help me! I need your clothing design help.  It's so fun having a tailor who can make a dress just from the picture.  You can't imagine how inexpensive it is here either.  I can't wait to show you the two dresses I dropped off last week to get made.   I found them in Lebanon when I was there but they were way too expensive. I am getting them made for less than 1/4th of the price. It's fun going to the fabric store and then finding designs you like.

Give me your comments or suggestions of places to look.