I'm in love with this new dress I made this week for my etsy shop www.garrisonhilldesigns.etsy.com. It's a two-toned Mod dress. I've been wanting to make a Mod dress for a while but couldn't settle on a specific design. The funny thing is I still can't. After I made this one I decided I like it so much I wanted to make more in different styles. I think I'm obsessed :-)

This dress is made out of 100% cotton. It zips up in the back and has bust darts and an a-line skirt. It has a yoke in the front and back of the dress which can be the same color or a different color from the rest of the dress:






The photos really don't do this dress justice. It is way more adorable in person and I really wish the photos came out better but black and white clothing is really hard to photograph so I'll just deal with it.

I've named this design the Brett Ashley dress after the Lady Brett Ashley from one of my favorite Hemingway novels The Sun Also Rises. She wore a lot of sleeveless dresses and tops and I remember finding the quote about her bare shoulders really funny because it seems like the most innocent and least-controversial part of a woman's body. I always thinking about that quote now whenever I put on something sleeveless.

I'm hoping to have a new design finished by next week to show you but I've got a busy week ahead of me filling orders and I need to make a dentist appointment for sometime this week and then Matthew and I will be going to the Boston Symphony next Saturday night for a Mozart and Schubert concert so I'm not sure if I'll have enough time. I will try my hardest though.

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekends and hopefully some of you have an extended weekend due the storm. I had a quiet but nice weekend with Matthew watching James Stewart movies (The Man Who Knew Too Much and Harvey), going out to dinner (Chili's - we had a gift card. Their vegetarian burger isn't half bad but everything else is pretty horrendous) and then we went to the movies to see Sweeney Todd which I absolutely loved. I can't get those songs out of my head. Still, I can't wait till the spring when we can get outside again and don't have to spend all of our time sitting indoors. See you all later.