In My Shell dress
I am so happy to present to you the ……… In My Shell dress, custom designed and handmade by yours truly, Jehania. I made this dress by hand with no pattern and no sewing machine in four days. I sat down with a friend of mine about two months ago and discussed what I should wear in the Beards and Locs video. I really didn’t put too much thought into the outfit for this video at first. I was going to just buy a cheap little dress from Goodwill and call it a day. Then he was like “No, you gotta come harder than that.” So I took a trip to the fabric store, my second favorite place after the studio. I knew what kind of fabric I wanted to work with but I didn’t have a definite design in mind. It wasn’t until after I purchased the fabric that I sat down and sketched the design for this dress. Some people don’t know that at one point in my life I was very serious about having a career in the fashion industry. This isn’t something that I just started doing. I’ve been sewing and making clot...