Sew Over It and the Red Shoes

I have found a dress pattern that I love, it has a full circle skirt and wearing it feels like dress up fairy tale time! ...and yes I am supposed to be an adult! It's the Betty dress pattern by Sew Over It, London. I've now made my second Betty in a pale blue cotton and I just want to twirl.

The fairy tale The Red Shoes comes into my mind when I wear this dress, perhaps because I've painted that story with the girl in a very similar dress! The red shoes does not need to be a negative story either, I believe it's about how making things yourself can be empowering and if you let someone cause you to throw these self made things away you will become vulnerable and powerless.
If you know the story you may remember she originally had made herself a pair of red shoes that would of probably served to protect her if she had not thrown them away.

  

Mitsuko, as always, was very helpful while I made my magical Betty dress...