Week 24 Infinity Dress

Been a few weeks, I have been busy with some other non BJD projects and traveling to an anime con, but I'm back! 

So I have wanted to do this blog for a while on the wonderfully fun gazillion ways to tie an Infinity dress, I found a tutorial on Den of Angels a while back and just got around to trying it out myself. After finding some photos online of various ways to wrap the straps around  I went ahead and did a brief photo shoot. Sorry for  some of the poor quality of the photos, was having some lighting issues. 

Anyway on with the blog....

Above is the photo I came accross online of a beautiful coral colored long version of the Infinity Dress. As you can see there are numerous ways to twist and wrap the straps to obtain a different look each time. There are many more than this, but this was the basic one I was looking at, but I also just started experimenting. 

So here is the dress I created to fit my Doll Chateau Alberta body, I had to make an adjustment to make the back longer than the front so that it hung over her centaur body, you'll be able to see the high/low hemline in the next few photos. Its best to use knit/stretchy fabrics, but I've seen some people use woven fabrics as well. 

 The above and the rest of the photos are being modeled by my Resinsoul Lu..you can see from the photo to the left that the back of the hemline is longer than the front as I mentioned.

Left the straps are drawn up accross the breast and shoulders and then twisted around the waist several times, giving the appearance of a sleeveless dress. The right is a asymmetrical wrap design.

 A halter-like style with lots of twisting with the straps and another asymmetrical style wrapped around with a huge bow in the back.

2 more halter styles...the one on the right especially I was trying to fold and wrap the straps so that you didn't see the raw edge of the fabric.

And one last photo I folded the straps to make it look like a collar of sorts for a nice sleeveless dress look. 

I unfortunetly didn't think to take photos of the back..oops. But really there are just endless possibilities with and infinity dress I can't wait to make more. There are so many different things you could do with this style. You could make the straps a different color, use fun prints with solids and the list goes on. The edges of the straps can be hemmed under, serged or add some decorative ribbon to cover the raw edges or you can just leave as is. 

I believe I will be adding this to my new designs that will soon be available in my Etsy shop MKC Couture . Until then I already have 2 more cut out and ready to go. Thanks for stopping in a viewing.