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I'm coming for you L.K Bennet

Thursday, May 12

For long I have been looking at L.K Bennet clothes and shoes and drooling over their beauty, but clutching my heart with sadness at their prices. Today I went to their website, just to check if by some stroke of luck, they would be having 90% discount sale ( stranger things have happened). But no. They persist in tormenting me. I think they know I am watching. Countless sighs have escaped my lips when I think of their dresses.

My expedition to their website today did not result in any pin number punching activity, but it did introduce me to this:





The Selina Dress




The normal procedure everytime I visit the LK Bennet website usually goes something like this
  • Dibs gets excited by beautiful dresses
  • Dibs checks prices after having fallen in love with dresses
  • Dibs's eyes threaten to fall out of sockets ( trust me this happens all the time, even though i know how expensive they normally are)
  • Dibs quietly logs off
  • Dibs sits in the darkness for 30 minutes, pondering at life's unfairness, and her lack of a bank account  to rival Paris Hilton's.
  • Dibs resolves to play the lottery (again).
  • Dibs goes searching for Dulche de Leche hagen daaz ice cream.
But not this time LK Bennet. Because this time, Dibs found a friend in Burda magazine May 2011. And that friend gave her this



Not quite the same but it will do. The only difference, from what I can see, is that the Burda dress does not have front in-seam pockets like the LK Bennet dress. But thats all right. I don't mind, because for once, I will make something for myself that is similar to an LK Bennet dress, and no, I will not spend £195 to make. Thank you very much.

This takes priority over any project I was going to shop for on saturday at the Goldhawk Road Fabric Fandango. Except of course stuff I have to make for Me Made June. Oh, the thought of actually making this dress. I wonder what fabric I would make it in. The LK Bennet version was made with silk shantung. I am not that crazy. Not yet anyways, when I have no experience dealing with such experience fabric. Hmm.....

What do you reckon?



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5 comments:

  1. Molly13 May 2011 at 23:54

    That's great, I love knocking off dresses for much cheaper than they cost!

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  2. Tilly14 May 2011 at 21:38

    Aha! So this is the pattern you were talking about. Yeah, you could totally make that.

    Lovely to meet you today! x

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  3. Dibs15 May 2011 at 02:24

    T'was lively to meet you too Tilly. Yeah hopefully i don't mess it up.

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  4. Rachael15 May 2011 at 19:25

    Wow, this has just made me really excited, isn't it nice to feel connected to people. I saw that LK dress in a magazine today and said to other half - 'that's nice, its very like the burda dress I'm going to make' I plan to do it in Liberty chord, I'm hoping that the lines of the pattern will add interest at the diagonal seams. Good luck with yours.

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  5. Kester13 August 2011 at 13:17

    How about bamboo silk to copy it? Fraction of the price and ecologically stonkin -requires no pesticides and much less water, I already have some samples and it does feel like silk. I also have a bamboo t-shirt which has lasted much longer without fading than similar cotton ones.

    Any ideas how to find or design a pattern to copy this one? http://www.lkbennett.com/clothing/dresses/DREVELYN156SILK Evelyn Dress in Champagne White, in case the link doesn't work.

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