Help! Need to choose a fabric!

[chebe]

You know the dress pattern I'm making up? Need a reminder? Well, I've a problem. I picked a patterned print for the main fabric. Quite apart from my fear of matching up all those seams, is the fact that I'm useless at matching prints. I'm a solids kind of girl, generally mixing in one patterned piece with plenty of solids. Nice and easy.

But now I have to try and find a fabric to make the contrasting wrap-tie out of. Add to this my personal 'style', and it's becoming very difficult to find an appropriate fabric. I want to actually wear this dress when it's finished. So I'm going to have to face the fact that except for a handful of days in the Summer, I will be wearing it with black opaque tights, and most likely some form of black footwear. I had an idea of using dark charcoal, in a solid, but couldn't find it in anything other than satin. So this is what I have available to me. What do you think?

Bear in mind, my hair cycles from red to orange, and back to red again. I am the kind of pale that burns in ten minutes and never tans. And most of my wardrobe basics are black (but I'm not afraid of a bit of colour).

1: Pirate skulls	2: Plain black
3: Los Muertos	4: Floral
5: Navy spots	6: Eyelet

7: Red sequins

Poll #5659 Help! Fabric choices for wrap-tie

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Which fabric combination do you think works best?

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1: Pirate skulls
1 (25.0%)

2: Plain black
0 (0.0%)

3: Los Muertos
1 (25.0%)

4: Floral
0 (0.0%)

5: Navy spots
2 (50.0%)

6: Eyelet
0 (0.0%)

7: Red sequins
0 (0.0%)

8: Other, please elaborate in comments
0 (0.0%)

(I don't actually have enough of those last three fabrics, but can probably get more of something similar.)
I was also thinking of maybe edging the neckline and hem with black satin bias-tape piping. Or making a slip underneath that would leave some black or silver netting peeking out under. Previously suggested colours were pink or yellow. But I don't know. Help! Please!

Comments

[phoenix]

Navy spots, red sequins and the other skull print are also very nice.

[chebe]

Heh. The red sequins are actually part of a Hallowe'en costume I was tidying away, and I was like woah, that actually kinda works. Seems my internet circle is torn between pirates, los muertos, and navy spots! I may have to take drastic measures and involve the Mother.

[jpichon.myopenid.com]

Go study!


J, no sense of fashion and thus abstaining

[chebe]

Sorry, got stuck in a near-infinite loop on your first command.

You don't need a sense of fashion, just tell me which one hurts your eyes least? Pretty please!

[jpichon.myopenid.com]

Well I'm biased toward the skulls but you know why ;) I would have thought plain black to be an easy "when in doubt" but I'm not sure it works so great actually. I think navy spots is the one that clashes less and voted accordingly.

...Don't blame it on me if it turns out horrible though! And go back to studying :P

[chebe]

You can see the poll \o/ Excellent, thank you ... (though I probably don't have enough of that particular fabric, I hope I can find something similar.)

To studying! *wavy lines*

[(Anonymous)]

Los Muertos is the way to go. A great mix of skulls and flowers.
This kind of counts as a post. Hope the exams went well.

-> tdr

[chebe]

Aww, does the poll not work for non-account-holders? Boo.

It is very cool, just not convinced on it with the blue-with-white-spots... It is one of the current leaders though.

First exam was okay, still one to go, which won't, but thanks :)