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Dress is clipped in mesh back to take in some extra (see description)

Dress with middle as is, not clipped in back.

 

c0830 White/Silver Metallic Dress with Mesh Midriff     $175

Made in Egypt. Silver metallic (very tiny closely spaced dots) on stretch fabric. Beadwork in glass tumbled silver square cut bugle beads, some small silver metallics. Sequin fill (not a lot) in white iridescents, silver holographic. Several groups of small crystals on bra. Minimal 3 strand fringe accents around hips. Moderately fitted in hips, flares fairly quickly to moderate flare. Slit over left leg. Slit and hem edged in overlapping glass silver beads. Bra cups integrated into dress, cups only, no back straps. Probably intented to have shoulder straps, which are unattached in back (just as well as you almost always have to move them). You could also make halter straps. Midriff of single piece of unseamed soft white mesh, all the way around.

Very pretty, has a lot of beadwork, but may need some help in bra and midriff; see size chart for details.

Accessories: Matching beaded gauntlets.

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Age/Condition: New. But see size charts for engineering issues. Also, at these low prices (due to lack of time on my part), I will not be going over these with fine tooth comb. Any major bead loss of course I will take care of, but thread trimming, tying off, missing small crystal here or there, will be for your enjoyment.

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Shows example of bead pattern made with marker pen, pen showing (small black/blue dots you can see around the beading). detail

Sizing:
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c0830 White/Silver Metallic Dress with Mesh Midriff
Important notes, issues with dresses:
1) Midriff mesh is single piece, no seams, so it doesn't curve in; in fact it  is more likely to puff out. I believe you could put equivalent of large vertical darts in it, both on sides and back (like princess seams).
2.) "Bra" is cups only, no back strap. Mesh is very loose around top back. Minimum, elastic needs to be added attached to bra cups, across back top. More likely you'll need to add actual bra straps AND elastic to back top of mesh. There is  only narrow beadwork along top of mesh to sides of cups, so you'll have to be ok with whatever you put in there showing (won't matter, you see it all the time).
Cups are fairly shallow and tend towards horizontal (less plunge).
3.) Seamstresses used black and blue very juicy markers to outline bead patterns, and the dots show. From audience distance, just looks like shadowing or actual blue tint to beadwork, close up its obvious. Some more so than others. Howver, even the "worst" are not that bad from a distance.
Dress Bra should fit range including Approx. circumfercnce, under bra cups and across top back of mesh (which stretches, hence range) Waist* Hips** Length*** Notes
1 SOLD 32 C, 34 B/C, narrow 36 A/small B 31-41 32-40 34-39 45 blue marker on bra shows but just looks like blue tint. Black marker on skirt doesn't show much.
2 32 C+ 34 B/C, narrow 36 A/B 33-40 31-38 34-39 46 light brown stains lower front left corner by slit, 3/4" by 1/2" rectangularish oblong, 3/4"x1/2" ovalish. Not too bad, at bottom of skirt.
Marker: black, entire dress not bad.
3 SOLD 34 B+/C/small D, 36 B/C 33-38 31-38 33-37 46 skirt blue marker really shows as does black on bra; still from distance doesn't look like anything more than tint.
4 SOLD 34 BC+. 36 B/C 34-42 34-42 36-40 46 marker all black, not bad over entire dress
5 SOLD 34 B+/C/small D, 36 B/C, maybe C+ 36-44 31-38 35-39 45 tiny group of pin point black spots on mesh on side.
Bra black marker shows; skirt black on front not bad, skirt back blue looks like tint.
*Waist: Very approximate; this is the mesh, poochy and difficult to measure.
**Hips: minimjm could be smaller, but smaller person would start swimming in dress
*** Center of bra, top edge (about your breastbone) to hem.
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