The 5 Year Happiness

The past 45 days was a very happy and exciting for both me and my husband. We celebrated my husband's birthday, my birthday and our marriage anniversary. We celebrated 5 years of togetherness this year. Sometimes it feels that the time is standstill and 5 years seems like nothing and yet at other times it feels to be flying away. But what we know is that we are happy and are enjoying being together.

Now lets get down to the outfit :)

The Design Story

This particular fabric is available in blocks, i.e same rectangular or square print on front and back , just like a scarf. I wanted this black and white print to have loads of color hence the floral embroidery. The embroidery is simply a collection of many kinds of floral shapes and leaves put together in a non symmetrical way.

The Fabric: Printed Georgette

The Silhouette: Kaftan Top

The Design Elements: Abstract Floral Embroidery

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Sheath Dress vs Shift Dress

I have not studied fashion in a fashion school but my passion for dressing and love for GOOGLE :) :) has made me learn quite a lot about fashion, trends, terminologies and jargons.

There was a time when I was repeatedly coming across terms like a Sheath dress and a Shift dress. Even though I was designing these types of dresses, I did not really know how to categorize them, after all a dress is a dress..right????

Anyhow, now I know the difference and I am outing the difference between a shift dress and a sheath dress on my blog for all of you to know or to reconfirm or to debate :)

Shift Dress

• It does not have a defined waist line and is not form fitting
• It generally hangs loosely from the shoulders and typically is said to be knee length and sleeveless
• These dresses generally have a shorter necklines like a boat neck or may be collars
• It can be worn with belts, stockings , tights etc

Sheath Dress

• It is absolutely form fitting
• It can be worn longer then a shift dress
• This dress can be worn on many occasions and it has many interpretations like with or without sleeves, long or short,  formal or casual

This dress that I have worn here can be classified as a Shift and the following dress can be called a Sheath.

For the new readers: Some of the outfits I wear have been designed by me and made at my mother's boutique in India. Whenever I blog about any such outfit, I write a Design Story telling you all about how the outfit came to life. So here follows one more design story...

The Design Story

I got this dress made some 3-4 years ago. I wanted a very simple summer dress with satin ribbons used as embellishments. I have also used a feather lace along with the ribbons on the empire line

The Fabric: Printed Cotton Fabric

The Silhouette: Sheath Dress

The Design Elements: A Feather Lace and Satin Ribbons

                     

Dress: Self Designed at Tangerine Designs, Ludhiana (India)
Scarf: Local Shop in Sharjah (UAE)
Footwear: Aldo
Bracelets: Colaba Causeway, Mumbai (India)
Ring: A Hand-crafter from Pakistan
Clutch: Bandra, Mumbai (India)

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The Kaftan Dress

Sometimes you have a design in mind and then you source the fabric, embellishments etc. to make that garment. But sometimes a particular fabric, its color, its texture, its design speak to you and tells you how to transform it. Well the following dress is the result of one such telling :)

The Design Story

I loved the borders on this fabric and I wanted to keep them as it is hence i decided to make a Kaftan dress out of this fabric. I added the belt to give definition to otherwise a straight silhouette. This belt actually goes from front to back giving the illusion of separate sleeves on the dress.

The Fabric: Printed Crepe from a local fabric shop in Ludhiana. This fabric has border on both its sides.

The Silhouette: A knee length Kaftan dress

The Design Elements: Floral Embroidery with gold accents at the waist and belt at the back.

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A Beautiful Life

Yup, I am back. It has been 2 weeks already since I have come back from India and I am pretty much settled here again :)

Also, as you all see, I have given the blog a little makeover. Actually I have split this single blog into two blogs.
Earlier what was titled "Purvi's Creative Hub", now has become "A Beautiful Life", which you are reading right now.
I have created another blog which is now titled "Purvi's Creative Hub". You can check it out here.

"A Beautiful Life" from now on will be all about fashion, food, my thoughts and my life in general ( i.e whatever I feel like sharing :) :))
and, "Purvi's Creative Hub" will be about my Art and Craft Projects.

Now the question is, why have I done so???? ...... Simply to make my writing and content more structured.
Remember me asking you guys here, whether I should have different blogs for my different interests or a single blog filled with all that I like.

Well!!! after following a number of other blogs, I have realized that people have varied tastes and a blog necessarily should be focused on one or two subjects. Other things in minor dozes is ok. But in my case, I think I pursue all my interests on a major scale and hence I feel the need to write about all of them. This was taking away the focus of my blog. Hence I decided to have 2 different blogs for 2 different types of content and audience. Simple logic, Right??????

Ok now lets get to the outfit.
I have previously mentioned here and here that I have my own boutique in Ludhiana, India. A lot of my clothes are designed in-house by me, my mother and my sister.

So I have decided that from now on, whenever I will post any outfit, designed at my boutique, I will also write about the story or process behind that outfit.

What say???? Does it sound interesting??????
Anyways lets see the story behind this outfit.


The Design Story

The Fabric: Printed Crepe from a local fabric shop in Ludhiana. It has the same print on the front and the back

The Silhouette: Sleeveless with A-line Hem to keep the focus entirely on the print and the design.

The Design Elements: Now the color black and the print on it are very strong, so I had to think of a design that would not overpower it but at the same time will stand out. Hence came in the Orange Peter Pan Collar in the front and the bold golden zip on the back

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