Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Dress

I have loved the Nightmare Before Christmas since I first saw it back in 1993 when I was 7, and I have watched it every Halloween and Christmas since. I have always wanted to go as Sally for Halloween, but the dresses for purchase are so bad looking, bright and lurid colors, all one piece with fake looking stitches, I just never liked any enough to buy. This year, my 2 year old son is going as Jack, and I am going as Sally, (I was going to make my husband an Oogie Boogie mask, but he declined). My son is really excited to be Jack, since so far this October we have watched the movie 57 times, and it's only the 19th. As soon as Nick gets up, he goes to the living room points to the TV, and says Jack TV!! I decided since I couldn't purchase any costume that was to my preferred look, I decided to make both my son's costume, and my dress. I looked and looked for a good tutorial on how to make the dress but I couldn't find one, so I decided to make one myself. I based the dress off of this picture:

From https://straightlinedesigns.wordpress.com/tag/tim-burton/

I bought a plain white dress off of Amazon. com for like $10 and borrowed my mom's antique dress form.

I went to walmart and bought the fabric, as close to color match as they had. I bought plain fabric, and a pack of black fabric markers so I could make the designs as close to her dress as possible.

Drawing in the design.

I started cutting and pinning the fabric in as similar a pattern as I could, from that one picture. I had no picture of the back of her dress, and during the movie, you can't really see it due to her hair, so I just winged it. 

Once I had it all pinned, I completely securely sewed it into the white under dress, making sure everything was sewn on. After the dress was finished that way, I went back over and sewed in the decorative, and very recognizable to the dress, black stitches. I used a very thick crochet thread, and an upholstery needle to accomplish this.

I just sewed all the patches to make it look as close to Sally's real dress as I could.

I will post pictures after Halloween of my son and I in our costumes. I am dying my hair red and straightening it, and going the whole 9 yards with blue cream make-up and black stitches. Stay tuned!

I will also post a separate tutorial for Jack's costume.