black and white maxi dress Angelina Designed in a classic black and white combo Akari White Contrast Maxi Dress

I liked that the dress in the magazine had this band between the top and the skirt, that the top part can be easily transformed for my ideas, and that the skirt is not a slim-fitting skirt with a straight, narrow cut but its an A-line skirt, and that the dress has the classic silhouette to which I can add some modern touches

Remember, its always easier to alter a dress down than to try to make a dress larger

In practice it will be found that 7 or 8 inches of the material must be gathered in in this way, and a box-pleat, though not, perhaps, exactly classical, gives very readily the required effect

(8) Row 9: ch 2, [dc 2 in next st] twice, 4 dc, [dc 2 in next st] twice