S/S 14 Design Evolution: Francis Dress

We are starting a little series of the evolution of our designs. Starting from sketch drawing to finished articles. Our Spring/Summer '14 collection is still basking in the pastel loveliness but with more collars and sleeves, following both current trends and looking at vintage styles to make a beautiful modern mix.

Our first design we'll be looking at is the Francis dress, featuring a shirt collar, elasticated waist, box pleats and gathers and decorative buttons or braiding decor.

From this drawing, we decided to put in a short zip in the back so that the shirt collar could be opened for access but the rest of the dress would simply pull over. The skirt has a series of small box pleats as well as it being gathered into the elasticated waist, this creates a wonderful full skirt.

This first dress was the toile/mock-up of the design, checking all the patterns I'd drafted were correct. It all worked out right and for the photo we pinned on some pink buttons to see the effect. This shirt-style dress had instant interest over on our Facebook.

Because we loved the pink toile we made, we decided the first dress had to be a pink beauty. We also had these flowers that were originally in a braid together but we cut them up and put them down the front of the dress. We thought it looked so cute and girly!

The second dress in this style was a more sophisticated take, in grey and lilac with mismatched buttons. We loved this one too and shows the opposite side of the design.

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Hannah Elizabeth's Winter White Selection

We love some winter whites, also mixed with some other hues, to create a lush, crisp ad classy look. Here is our selection of garments that we've loved doing making!

Some items can be bought directly from our website, here at Hannah Elizabeth!

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Rotherham Charity Fashion Show

Last Wednesday night, it was the first Fashion Show that Hannah Elizabeth exhibited in. It was part of a charity fashion show for Bluebell Wood Hospice and showed other local fashion brands in Rotherham, BitterSweet Boutique and Vintage Dolls, as well as many stalls from Patchwork Pig, Hair & Beauty and accessories. All held at the SNAFU pub, High Street, Rotherham.

The night was so much fun, they split it into 3 sections being a 'Hand-Made' section, 'Vintage Inspired' and 'Partywear' and I easily fit my outfits into all three sections. All my garments are hand-made by myself so we could put any of them in this section. The Vintage section was fun to see some of our slight vintage-looking dresses go in this section. The Partywear section showed all the glitzy, going out dresses that we had been creating mostly in our new A/W range.

We had 4 lovely models to wear Hannah Elizabeth, Leonie & Lisa both with the black hair and tattoos really showed off another side to Hannah Elizabeth, our slight vintage look teamed with these two tattooed beauties brought an edge to them. Meg & Jade were our blonde bombshells, making them look glamorous and gorgeous. Thank you to everyone!!

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Hannah Elizabeth at the Coalfields Festival 2013

Saturday 27th August, Hannah Elizabethhd a lovely stall at the Coalfields Festival, Darton, Barnsley. The music festival had 5 different stages, all packed with local bands and musicians and an array of other stalls, including Fancy Dress, Jewellery, Fairground rides and a great range of different foods and sweets.

The Hannah Elizabeth stall consisted of two mannequins, two rails, three shoulder displays and plenty of stock. The festival was treat as a more marketing event for the business but still wanting the stall to look intriguing and inviting.

 

Top 10 Hannah Elizabeth Facebook Posts!

Hannah Elizabeth's Facebook Page has a growing audience, starting out small and then developing a great following! Here are our top 10 engaged Facebook posts for something a little different! :D

#10

To kick this top 10 list off, this gorgeous Ivory Helena dress caught some attention. It had over 40 photo views but the best part of this photo was that a customer asked for the same one to be made in her size! Definitely one of my favourite designs!

#9

The shop window of one of Hannah Elizabeth's stockist, Reba Unique. This was a nice photo to share on our page, getting 53 photo views and 10 likes. Also, how gorgeous is that Lily's Pad dress on the left??

#8

Hannah Elizabeth Wants You! This summer intern advert for a local helper was really well received. I had previously just posted statuses advertising it but as soon as I created this photo for it, it actually got noticed! Its reach is over 740 and still going up, it had 6 shares which definitely helped in reaching more viewers.

#7

This was the first photo posted as a 'sneak-peak' of the S/S 13 photoshoot, this single photo had 67 photo views in one evening, which for a small facebook page, was pretty decent. 

#6

These beauties are at number 6, somehow got 64 views, sharing this photo on a bright sunny day and promoting that its definitely shorts weather got surprisingly some good feedback. Getting 4 likes and then I also shared this onto my personal Facebook page and got a further 3 likes. 

#5

One of our lovely customers! We posted up this picture of her when she tried her dress on and everyone loved it! It had 60 unique engaged users with 52 photo views and 15 'likes'. It's so lovely to see our customers in their garments :D

#4

Our Spring/Summer 13 Lookbook is at number 4, had some great people to work with on this photoshoot which was great to tag everyone in and spread the reach on the lookbook. The 9-Photo album has had 460+ views and reached 307 people.

#3

Haha! This was a good laugh! Grace (on the left) was doing her modelling and I (on the right) just jumped in! Turned out a great photo (but don't I look so short!!) with a 101 photo views a few 'Likes', it really cheered up both mine and others' day!

#2

This video was the preview of the S/S 13 photoshoot, It reached over 750 people with 100+ video watches. Really shows that videos can go much more viral than anything else on Facebook. Even though I did this video myself and was very amateurish! It still did all right on our page :D

#1

Our 'Behind-the-Scenes' post had over 460 photo views. We had many different photos in this album from daft photo bombs, make-up and to the set. This album of pictures were the off-spring of our S/S 13 photoshoot.

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