joined on 04/10/06
last updated 10/20/09
about me
Dress Up Alice is about having fun with clothes. About bring your inner characters out, feeling beautiful and being expressive. Feeling confident to wear fun clothes any time for any reason in any place. The truth: you have a great body and now you've found great clothes to dress it in.
I started sewing clothes with my mother when I was a toddler. I grew up making costumes, pants, skirts and dresses for school and well any time. Later I created dance costumes and other costumes for friends. I was always dressing up at any opportunity I had! Later I discovered in Portland there was a reconstucted clothing scene and I jumped in to see what I could do. I had fun with punk rock fashion shows we would throw together and street fairs in the summer.
In the past year my goals have changed. I am now committing myself full time to my clothing line. I have left my amazing and incredibly fun career as a bar tender and mixologist for the last 8 years. To...well....sit home and SEW! I'm feeling full of creative energy and excitement to see where this all takes me at the same time making my dreams reality.
I currently have my clothing line, Dress Up Alice, in Dragonlily on Hawethorne; www.dragonlily.org/, and Radish Underground downtown Portland; www.radishunderground.com/ and Union Rose; www.unionrosepdx.com/. I am also on FaceBook. Hope to see you dressing up!
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Spring skirt made from stretch corduroy Bright colors of Spring Green, Bubblegum Pink, Cherry Red Ripe Orange and Licorice Black Available in sizes 2-16 Side zipper with button flap closure Find them at Radish Underground in Portland Or. www.radishunderg
Find bright colored skirts available now at Radish Underground.
www.radishunderground.com/
They come in Bubble Gum Pink, Puckered Lips Red, Ripe Orange, Spring Green and Liquorish Black. All with applique flowers popping up from the hem. Made from cotton corduroy and hand made by me!
So cute and flattering. Clothes for curves... well that is what we are made of.
4 panels in front and back ending in a point, 8 flounces twirling at the bottom, zipper and unique button closure.
Sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Custom orders for size 0, 2, 14 and up.
Enjoy Spring and celebrate the blooms!
Dress Up Alice
dressupalice@yahoo.com
Spring is here and so is our crazy NW weather.
It feels so energizing to have rain for our starts in the garden and sun to cheer us up from a long winter. And! a moment to switch up our wardrobe.
The Equinox is a time to shed our winter ways and blossom to new life.
Celebrate yourself with a dress from Dress Up Alice
I have recently placed some spring/summer dresses in a shop in NE Portland
called Union Rose:
2023 NE MLK Jr. Boulevard Portland, OR 97212
503-287-4242 info@unionrosepdx.com
Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am - 5:30 pm
www.unionrosepdx.com/index.html
Don't be shy you curvy women! There are dresses for you too!
Excuse the mess....
I have been sewing and running my pieces and custom orders down to the store so fast there is no time for a photo shoot. So for now this is what I have. February will be photo madness I promise!
This past month I made some beautiful cocktail dress made from rose floral black velvet printed taffeta in silvery coal, deep black, white chocolate cream and perfect holiday red. They are available at Radish Underground and new boutique in downtown Portland. www.radishunderground.com/ Five new arrivals yesterday! Stop by for independent apparel design and unique holiday gifts.
Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan)
It's dreamy weather we're on
You waved your crooked wand
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon
A murder of silhouette crows I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice
I disappear in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere across the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice
Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier
And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice
And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice
There's only Alice
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 3:03 PM
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Each and every piece I make is unique. It makes the dress you get special and one of a kind. Sometimes I purchase fabric that I will never find again, some of the fabrics are vintage and some I stumble apon in the oddest of places. When I creat a piece I love adding little trims on hems or buttons here and there to give it character. Stiching has been a fun and creative way to make something stand out as well. Other times the little details are all yours alone placed in the lining, a small applique or beading no one else might ever notice or see. With this idea I hope to creat a look that is appealing to almost anyone. Sewing with a mix of different fabircs from modern, fancy, casual to funky, heavy, light to in-between. I get to meddle in different pots, so to say. Putting together a new personality each time. I have so many differnt moods I would feel stuck just keeping to one type. Hopefully I will catch your eye with that secific one you have never seen before, will never see again and is as UNIQUE as you!
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 6:51 PM
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Fashion Show Dance Party
(events » nightlife)
Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 6:00 PM
14 RSVPs
Watch, listen, dance and cheers!
I'm leaving my bar tending ways and giving it up for clothes! Not just any clothes but my own designs.
THIS SATURDAY DEC. 2OTH
FASHION SHOW STARTS AT 8P
DJ ACID WASH (Balakan beat box and world hip hop) AT 10P
at the Blue Monk
S.E. 34Th and Belmont
COME, HAVE A DANCE OFF WITH ME!
Don't miss it, because i will miss you!!!!!
Amber Arquette
Crafty Vixens,
Crafty Vixens Store,
DESIGNS BY BELLY DANCERS,
Fashion Outlaws,
Fashion Photography,
Fashion Victim,
Fashionatas,
Haute Couture Fashion,
La Mode,
Last Thursday,
NW Car Pool! Jump on in!,
Portland Craft Ho's,
Reconstructed Clothing,
the Egg,
thrifting,
Underground Fashion,
Undiscovered Fashion,
Vintage Fashion,
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