American Apparel Le Sac dress WITH TUTORIAL! [photo obese, 12 LARGE picutres]

[annaloves]

ok.
1. To start out with cut a rectangle of fabric about 1 3/4 around your bust by roughly 30" [you can lengthen it or shorten it if you wish]
2. cut this large rectangle in half so you have two peices of fabric that go almost all the way around you by 30"
3. place fabric with right sides facing as if you are going to sew the seam that you just cut back up [which is exactly what you are going to do actually]. pin the seams together
like so...

4. sew up the seams until about 5-6" from the top and backstitch to secure stitch. then continue sewing up to the top using a basting stitch like shown...


repeat on the other side doing the same thing
5. iron the seams open [including basting]

6. unpick basting ONLY after it is suffeciently ironed as this will make the next step 10x easier.

7. sew along what you just unpicked at 1/4" and MAKE SURE YOU BACKSTITCH AT THE BEGINNING!!! or your dress may fall apart...

8. make a casing for your ribbon/string at the top. i pressed mine down 1" and then sewed 1/4" from the bottom edge

9. press up and sew your hem [again, i pressed up 1" and sewed at 1/4"]

10. string your ribbon or string through the upper casing and tada! you're finished! =] wear it many different ways. you can see different ways to wear it here... http://store.americanapparel.net/rsa0300.html
and more detailed instructions here: http://bspoetry.blogspot.com/2008/07/le-sac-dress.html

what your dress looks like flat and not put on...


here are the two i made =]


and one more picture just cause

[hngoodlett]

This is perfectly timed! I finally saw a Le Sac in person and I said to myself "Self, you can make this, and you can make it long enough your ass doesn't show." Yours look great!

[annaloves]

thanks =] it cost me a whole $2 to make both of those dresses vs buying two at $38 each. i just used stuff my mom has had sitting around forever.

[threehang]

aaaah! i've been meaning to make this dress for a while, and now that i have a fantastic tutorial right in front of me, i have no more excuses to put it off!! thanks so much for posting this!

[Alatarial]

=D this is great!

[wippelgem]

Super!!!! I'm going to make one!!!!

[boo_zombie]

i totally want to have a go at this but ive got no fabric id want to wear as a dress 


OMG ive never seen american apparel clothes b4 so i checked out some other stuff on there site... what  the hell? why is it all so short and tight???

[boo_zombie]

lol ok so i knocked one up quickly to try it out and just ended in a mess of straps lol.... is there supposed to be a tie on oneside or bothsides lol

[annaloves]

It should just be one tie. The string goes all the way through the casing and the loose ends only pop out at one side. The other opening should just be a loop of string basically. There should only be one place to actually tie it.

[boo_zombie]

ok sweet!!! lol i was wondering why i was so tangled in so many ties lol id pull one end and it would undo hehehehe