Challenge 6: Alex in Iconic Wear, comments

Alexandra's comments on my Alex Challenge, redesigning an iconic dress:

DESIGN ONE - "Some Like It Hot" -- I think you are certainly headed in the right direction[,] but it seems to me that "Sugar" is all about sweet sexiness. She is the classic dumb blonde with hidden brains. She uses her natural charms to their best advantage and dresses accordingly. I think you need to convey that more in this costume.

Hopefully, the costume, when the pleats are let out and the blouse is tidied up, it will convey the contemporary schoolgirl Lolita look of Japanese Anime-Manga while giving the dress a more authentic 1929 flavor. The thin fabric I used on the skirt under a tight hip band should add motion to the hips.

At present, a total redesign of the hip band is in the works, and I still have not come up with a 100% satisfactury solution to the putting the garment on and off problem, i.e. a solution that does not entail an entirely new skirt section.

The hip band, as planned, is beaded in transparent light peach/neutral and turquoise beads, with light peach triangles at the four points the current skirt band has -- starting off an Art Deco flair to the band.