it's beautiful and I love the red shoes with it. Strapless wedding dresses usually have a belt made from grosgrain ribbon engineered on the inside of the dress. the purpose is to carry the weight of the skirt at the waist so it doesn't drag the top down.
Yep! It's called a waist stay - learnt about it when finishing my (heavy-ish) wedding dress... 2 days before the wedding... and fearing that the spaghetti straps would hold it. It also relieves the stress on the zipper. Btw you can use the hook and eye tape of an old bra (also serves as "something old") ;)
Waist stays are fantastic and I can't believe that more people don't know about them. I am amazed that even high end labels rarely put waist stays in their formal strapless dresses.
I feel like the two video perspectives, yours and the other RUclipsr’s are a perfect example of how hard we can be on ourselves sometimes, yet how much we are admired by others. She was admiring your dress without the slightest idea that at that same moment, you were pretty bummed out about not bringing your petticoat. But yeah, frustration is totally valid, especially because it took your time and effort to make it. Anyway, I love all of your designs and creations; been following you for forever!
i'm so bummed that the premiere has been postponed, but i'm glad you got to see it and show off your mad skills! i hope you and your family stay safe and are being respected and protected by your community. i know there have been some racist attacks against hmong and other chinese americans lately so i'm sending you all lots of love
i had been watching Micarah Tewers making dresses and i forgot how unchaotic normal dressmaking youtubers are. anyways thats a really pretty dress and you look amazing 🖤🖤
God that fabric is so beautiful 😍 Who would’ve thought that reds, blues, black, and nude worked so well together? And those golden sparkles!!! So gorgeous ❤️💙🖤✨
it's that lovely gem tone in that red shoe that pops the light blue, and then black&beige is such a solid (and imo underrated) neutral colour combo, it all looks so good together! obsessed
@@coolirpa I know you've done a couple of collaborations with Orly Shani. She used that fabric to make a pretty bustier for her cousin's wedding. It's really lovely. Your dress is fabulous.
I probably worked on this dress for at least 20 hours total over the weekend haha. For more information on this dress, visit my website: coolirpa.com for a blog post! I'll be sharing, fabric and other materials :) AND FYI - MULAN HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL NOT BE IN THEATHERS ON MARCH 27 ANYMORE.
First of all .... NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I was waiting soooo king for this movie ! Second. I always wondered how you use a dress form to get the measurements to fit the your body. ( your body small like that dress form ) My body looks nothing like a standard dress form.
Hi April! You could try something like “Save failed online shopping dress”. You know, people who buy clothing online and it turn out a big regret. What do you think?
My grandma used to make her own clothes. I grow up learning the basics from her. You honor all the knowledge lost in a time that everybody buys online and become a copy of a store apparel. Thank you for inspiring us!
So pretty! My favorite piece of yours!! i love the style and skirt length. The overlay is also gorgeous. Its perfect! Please make a tutorial on how make tea-length vintage styled dress!
Thank you for all the tiny hints on fitting on the waist. I think one has to have a good understanding to get the difference between a good fit for yourself and a standard fit without personnal attention.
I didn’t realize so many many of subscribers and viewers are professional sewers like her. It takes a professional to understand her. So beautiful dress
Wow!!!! You are seriously talented. I would have had a legit stroke trying to see a whole dress in 24 hours. Your dress looks amazing!!!! Excellent job. Love your videos.
April, You did a wonderful job on your dress, it's Beautiful! We only hurt ourselves when we procrastinate!!!!! I am 58 & I have procrastinated many times in my life. You'd think I would have learned to never do it again, but I can still let "something else" get in my way sometimes. I will remember this dress as one of my favorites!!!! Take care and God Bless.
I love your creative videos because they make me feel more confident not only in your projects I copy but my own. You're so open and honest. That and your style!
How I wish I could procrastinate and still create great things. I'm so happy for you April and to these great things happening for you and this channel! 💕✨🎉
Ugh, me too. I'm reaaaal good at the procrastinating part, but I need heaps of practise to achieve results like these after procrastinating. Thing is, I keep procrastinating about practising too... 😥
lovely work as usual, april! sew in a waist stay for strapless and/or heavy gowns. they're common in wedding dresses. works like a dream. my wedding dress had one.
That dress is gorgeous! And you looked amazing even withouth the pettiskirt...it's insane how our mind always makes us feel bad about the smallest details we get "wrong", I feel this so much.
I'm obsessed with the dress. Looks couture TBH. The fashion fabric - lining sewing situation/logistics in this video taught me a lot and explained some things to me that I had been wondering how they were done on a dress I once deconstructed. Thanks April.
i remember watching Coolirpa videos back in 2013 and learning to sew and make the most out of my clothes. Makes it extra special to see her walk a red carpet in her own dress design
I like it without the petticoat though, you look airy and super slim, and that's one gorgeous dress. It's magical on how you sew this in just one day. I wish my Sims have this kind of choice in their dresser.
April you did an amazing work. Intricate yet delicate fabric and simple lines of the dress make it absolutely perfect. I'd love to see a video about your tips on draping a pattern directly onto mannequin. You always master at it !
Hi - I made a strapless topped dress and only put boning in the side seams. I wore a strapless bra. This worked very well and I didn't have to hitch it up at all throughout the evening. I think the reason was that I did not sew the skirt to the top but put a "pleated peplum" at the waist of the top so that any separation between the top and the skirt would never be seen. Your dress is absolutely beautiful and I cannot believe you made it in one day. You look great, well done.
Isabelle Scales I wanted to use horsehair but realistically I wouldn’t have had time to hand sew it around the circle skirt. Love horsehair braid though!
Great job April! We are our toughest critic. Your dress is beautiful with or without the petticoat. I love how you share your thoughts after a project is finished. It's so helpful to review lessons learned from the project for future reference. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. I'm super proud of you.
Omg I love Erin's comment about the dress! I'm totally obsessed with it. It looks like a perfect cross between the American retro style and the intricate design pattern usually seen in Asian culture specifically Chinese culture. It honestly looks like a dress fit for Mulan Premier.
The dress is stunning! You look great on the red carpet! There is stretchy stiff material masters do use for an under bodess - it so rough that not only keeps the dress up also makes the waist line .smaller.
It looks awesome with and without the underskirt!!! It looks so effortless perfect! I especially love the hint of the red flowers on the fabric, it makes the dress matching the red carpet even better!!! April, have you ever thought about making a ground pattern bodice (Maybe also for some skirt options, like the circle skirt) out of a thicker, durable material like cardboard paper or a thin Plexiglas material? It makes it really easy to trace the shape onto the fabric. I think it would speed up the process sometimes! (Of cause it is no useable for everything, but for a few pieces for sure!)
HOW DID SHE NOT MESSING UP THE DRESS IN ONE DAY! I already messing up when I’m cutting my pants to shorts they will look uneven or they will be to short
Hey April! I have a dress that's my aunts and I finally got the chance to officially have it. However, when I sent it to a seamstress she kinda screwed it up by ironing the velvet material. I don't know how to explain how terrible I felt but it was basically like my dreams were crushed. I wanted to wear the dress for the longest time ever but my parents were just telling me to throw it away. Is there any way to restore it?
Q1: Why are they doing the premier in such a large scale , when world is dealing with a pandemic. Q2: Why are you attending the premier? Btw...I love the dress...You are insanely talented.
I love your dress and it’s lovely to see how you made it. However, the actress playing mulan is f-ed up the whole thing. Plus, they cancelled mushu from the story. What kind of demon will do sth like that?
Found your channel because I'm thinking about making my own wedding dress...and I really feel like I can do it after watching some of your videos! You break everything down step by step so well!!
I cnt believe you made a dress in 1 day! And just the day before the event itself.. crazy! So incredeibly beautiful!! its must have been so cool walking the red carpet, getting your picture taken and it being a dress you designed and made yourself! amazing!
Love love this dress. I couldn't stop smiling at how beautiful and romantic this dress is. What an exciting piece. I liked both with and without poofy... but you look great in what ever you create April. TFS
We go last minute dress shopping. April does last minute dress sewing.
Beautiful dress!
Kayoua Xi⭐️
Hmong?
lmao
Blah 😆 that's crazy lol she's so talented.
it's beautiful and I love the red shoes with it. Strapless wedding dresses usually have a belt made from grosgrain ribbon engineered on the inside of the dress. the purpose is to carry the weight of the skirt at the waist so it doesn't drag the top down.
dindog22 wowed what! I need to learn more about this. Thank you for sharing!!!
Yes! Mine had a wide elasticated belt on the inside around my waist that supported the weight of the skirt, no hitching for me!
Yep! It's called a waist stay - learnt about it when finishing my (heavy-ish) wedding dress... 2 days before the wedding... and fearing that the spaghetti straps would hold it. It also relieves the stress on the zipper. Btw you can use the hook and eye tape of an old bra (also serves as "something old") ;)
Waist stays are fantastic and I can't believe that more people don't know about them. I am amazed that even high end labels rarely put waist stays in their formal strapless dresses.
dindog22 I only learned about waist stays recently, because a vintage pattern had one. It just makes so much sense!
Coolirpa: Sews an amazing dress in 1 day.
Me: Cuts pant pieces wrong 3 times...
I so identify with you. LOL
Me, too. Well, 4 or 5 times...
Me: spends a week making a butt ugly apron to wash dishes in.
I feel you. It took me 2 days to sew a baby blanket... and it was just sewing 2 fabric together, no quilting or anything. 😅
I've been there!!
I feel like the two video perspectives, yours and the other RUclipsr’s are a perfect example of how hard we can be on ourselves sometimes, yet how much we are admired by others. She was admiring your dress without the slightest idea that at that same moment, you were pretty bummed out about not bringing your petticoat. But yeah, frustration is totally valid, especially because it took your time and effort to make it. Anyway, I love all of your designs and creations; been following you for forever!
When I procrastinate: 🗑️💩🗑️
Coolirpa's "procrastination": 🌈☀️✨
Right!! 😂😂
so true
i'm so bummed that the premiere has been postponed, but i'm glad you got to see it and show off your mad skills! i hope you and your family stay safe and are being respected and protected by your community. i know there have been some racist attacks against hmong and other chinese americans lately so i'm sending you all lots of love
Sophie Lesher aww thank you so much! I hope everyone is staying safe as well!
Some Korean exchange students I know were made fun of when the virus was only in China. People are awful.
i had been watching Micarah Tewers making dresses and i forgot how unchaotic normal dressmaking youtubers are. anyways thats a really pretty dress and you look amazing 🖤🖤
Hanini me too lol i love her
Ahhh, I love Micarah!!
Dude same😂😂 Micarah is hilarious though
Her chickens are icons
IKR it was weird not using a chocolate bar and a Barbie dall as measuring tools 😂
It has a vintage feel
muffin top I tried to go for an old Hollywood hair curl too haha. I tried 😂
@@coolirpa ... You pulled it off Completely Beautiful Princess (ha ha/but TRUE) ❣❣❣
God that fabric is so beautiful 😍
Who would’ve thought that reds, blues, black, and nude worked so well together? And those golden sparkles!!! So gorgeous ❤️💙🖤✨
It's so beautiful! :D
it's that lovely gem tone in that red shoe that pops the light blue, and then black&beige is such a solid (and imo underrated) neutral colour combo, it all looks so good together! obsessed
@@coolirpa I know you've done a couple of collaborations with Orly Shani. She used that fabric to make a pretty bustier for her cousin's wedding. It's really lovely. Your dress is fabulous.
@@coolirpa I know this is a long shot, but any chance you could link where you got the fabric? It's probably not available, but worth a try.
I probably worked on this dress for at least 20 hours total over the weekend haha. For more information on this dress, visit my website: coolirpa.com for a blog post! I'll be sharing, fabric and other materials :) AND FYI - MULAN HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL NOT BE IN THEATHERS ON MARCH 27 ANYMORE.
coolirpa whaaaaatttttt???? I was so excited to Mulan 😭 your dress is fabulous btw ❤️
First of all .... NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I was waiting soooo king for this movie !
Second. I always wondered how you use a dress form to get the measurements to fit the your body. ( your body small like that dress form ) My body looks nothing like a standard dress form.
Well if you ever want to try out for project runway you’ll be ahead of the game for being able to handle the one day challenges.
what a beautiful design--simple but an exquisite result and perfect use of the fabric.
Thank you!
coolirpa where did u buy the fabric from?
Shaku Harshavardhana Joanns
Hi April!
You could try something like “Save failed online shopping dress”.
You know, people who buy clothing online and it turn out a big regret.
What do you think?
She’s already done that
you’re like mulan if she was raised a princess🥺
My grandma used to make her own clothes. I grow up learning the basics from her. You honor all the knowledge lost in a time that everybody buys online and become a copy of a store apparel.
Thank you for inspiring us!
That dress is one of the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Even without the petticoat it still looks amazing! So fitting for a red carpet!
I love you and your work! That dress is awesome. Flat or fluffy. Stay inspired!!!
So pretty! My favorite piece of yours!! i love the style and skirt length. The overlay is also gorgeous. Its perfect! Please make a tutorial on how make tea-length vintage styled dress!
Every time I saw the sequined fabric I got suprised by how beautiful it was!
Thank you for all the tiny hints on fitting on the waist. I think one has to have a good understanding to get the difference between a good fit for yourself and a standard fit without personnal attention.
I didn’t realize so many many of subscribers and viewers are professional sewers like her. It takes a professional to understand her. So beautiful dress
You know, I’ve never been a fan of sequined prints and tan fabric, but you made it work.
With or without the petticoat, absolutely gorgeous!!! You are insanely talented!
Great job April! You looked amazing!! (with and without the petticoat)
Wow!!!! You are seriously talented. I would have had a legit stroke trying to see a whole dress in 24 hours. Your dress looks amazing!!!! Excellent job. Love your videos.
It was still stunning without the petticoat! I love the neckline! It reminds me of vintage Dior!
Does anyone know what the neckline js called? Huhu
April, You did a wonderful job on your dress, it's Beautiful! We only hurt ourselves when we procrastinate!!!!! I am 58 & I have procrastinated many times in my life. You'd think I would have learned to never do it again, but I can still let "something else" get in my way sometimes. I will remember this dress as one of my favorites!!!! Take care and God Bless.
It turned out beautiful and you looked amazing in it! So inspiring that you just made a dress all from scratch!
Amazing self fabric, it was perfect with your black hair and the red shoes. Looks like it belonged in the movie!!
The dress is gorgeous even without the petticoat!
I love your creative videos because they make me feel more confident not only in your projects I copy but my own. You're so open and honest. That and your style!
How I wish I could procrastinate and still create great things. I'm so happy for you April and to these great things happening for you and this channel! 💕✨🎉
Ugh, me too. I'm reaaaal good at the procrastinating part, but I need heaps of practise to achieve results like these after procrastinating.
Thing is, I keep procrastinating about practising too... 😥
Girl that fabric is stunning!!!!!! I can get over how beautiful it is!!
lovely work as usual, april! sew in a waist stay for strapless and/or heavy gowns. they're common in wedding dresses. works like a dream. my wedding dress had one.
bunniejanie oooo I will need to research that! Thank you
It turned out beautiful. Be proud, your followers are.
Hi April. Why haven't you tried out for project runway?
You should. Facts.
I’d love to see her on project runway!
I’d love too!
That dress is stunning and you did a fantastic job designing and sewing it in just two days. It looks like the premier was great fun.
That dress is gorgeous! And you looked amazing even withouth the pettiskirt...it's insane how our mind always makes us feel bad about the smallest details we get "wrong", I feel this so much.
One of the most beautiful dress I have ever seen! It would made a maevelous prom dress, too!
She did not only just made the dress in one day, she also made content for her channel at the same time.🙂
I'm obsessed with the dress. Looks couture TBH. The fashion fabric - lining sewing situation/logistics in this video taught me a lot and explained some things to me that I had been wondering how they were done on a dress I once deconstructed. Thanks April.
You did an awesome job April!
With or without the underskirt, the dress is beautiful.
My favorite dress you've created so far!
This dress is amazing! And ideal for Mulan premiere - this fabric is so pretty and fairytale- like 😍
Ok, I am going to start making clothes this year!
You... Are a rock star!!!! That dress is gorgeous!!!!!
You need to start your own line of clothes. I love your clothes and fabric choices, also loved the new intro/outro set up!
Its super cute. OMG April, it is gorgeous!!! The fabric definitely red carpet material!!
This dress is fricken STUNNING! I LOVE that fabric it’s so beautiful and the length you chose with those shoes! 😍😍😍😍
One of the prettiest dresses I’ve seen in a LONG time!
“This is what happens when you procrastinate” Me: Am I procrastinating wrong??
Lol
Your dress was just as beautiful without the petticoat. Gorgeous!
When I saw the photo of you on SAT on Facebook I screamed!! Great to see more Asian representation. 💖💖🥺🙏🏼
Linda Thao awww thank you!!!
i remember watching Coolirpa videos back in 2013 and learning to sew and make the most out of my clothes. Makes it extra special to see her walk a red carpet in her own dress design
The fact that you created that in ~2d from draft to final product is pretty amazing. No one noticed the damn pettiskirt whatever lol
I like it without the petticoat though, you look airy and super slim, and that's one gorgeous dress. It's magical on how you sew this in just one day. I wish my Sims have this kind of choice in their dresser.
This is awesome! The gown is stunning!!! also I love the new set! Keep going girl! you're awesome! ❤️
Thanks so much!
April you did an amazing work. Intricate yet delicate fabric and simple lines of the dress make it absolutely perfect. I'd love to see a video about your tips on draping a pattern directly onto mannequin. You always master at it !
Okay, STUNNING. this has got to be my favorite piece of clothing you’ve ever made. So beautiful!!
Hi - I made a strapless topped dress and only put boning in the side seams. I wore a strapless bra. This worked very well and I didn't have to hitch it up at all throughout the evening. I think the reason was that I did not sew the skirt to the top but put a "pleated peplum" at the waist of the top so that any separation between the top and the skirt would never be seen. Your dress is absolutely beautiful and I cannot believe you made it in one day. You look great, well done.
I hope you get to go to many more premieres. I feel your sadness on the lack of skirt floof. What's your opinion on horsehair braid?
Isabelle Scales I wanted to use horsehair but realistically I wouldn’t have had time to hand sew it around the circle skirt. Love horsehair braid though!
That fabric is so BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE!!! love the dress!!
April, you always Look like a million. You are our mentor and our HERO!
kathleen chang awww LOL thank you!!!! 😭😁
Great job April! We are our toughest critic. Your dress is beautiful with or without the petticoat. I love how you share your thoughts after a project is finished. It's so helpful to review lessons learned from the project for future reference. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. I'm super proud of you.
The dress is beautiful! You’re so talented!!
Omg I love Erin's comment about the dress! I'm totally obsessed with it. It looks like a perfect cross between the American retro style and the intricate design pattern usually seen in Asian culture specifically Chinese culture.
It honestly looks like a dress fit for Mulan Premier.
Me sitting here and not even being abled to make a paper airplane
Her making one AMAZING dress in 2 DAYS!!!
I like the skirt without the petticoat better! The silhouette compliments you and it shows off the fabric sparkles more.
I gotta say it : you are my favorite RUclipsr ever! So talented yet so humble 😭❤️
The dress is gorgeous! What a talent you have
do you do "commission'' clothes? I would buy all the clothes you've made 😍🌸
The dress is stunning! You look great on the red carpet! There is stretchy stiff material masters do use for an under bodess - it so rough that not only keeps the dress up also makes the waist line .smaller.
The new studio looks gorgeous!! and so does your dress ❤️💙💛💖
Thank you :D
It was still gorgeous without the petticoat. It's quite lovely work.
I wish I could make something half as beautiful as your dress when I procrastinate 😔❤
Didier Duport it’s so stressful and straining on your body! I don’t recommend anyone to start making something 2 days before an event haha.
It looks awesome with and without the underskirt!!! It looks so effortless perfect!
I especially love the hint of the red flowers on the fabric, it makes the dress matching the red carpet even better!!!
April, have you ever thought about making a ground pattern bodice (Maybe also for some skirt options, like the circle skirt) out of a thicker, durable material like cardboard paper or a thin Plexiglas material? It makes it really easy to trace the shape onto the fabric. I think it would speed up the process sometimes! (Of cause it is no useable for everything, but for a few pieces for sure!)
Me: gets inspo and decides to make an dress
Also me: realises i only have a sharpie and a blunt scissors
This dress is absolutely gorgeous
HOW DID SHE NOT MESSING UP THE DRESS IN ONE DAY! I already messing up when I’m cutting my pants to shorts they will look uneven or they will be to short
I think this is the most beautiful dress you’ve ever made! Absolutely stunning fabric and design. Wow.
QUE HERMOSAAAAA❤❤
This dress is stunning! The neckline is so spunky and creative ❤️ super vintage
Hey April! I have a dress that's my aunts and I finally got the chance to officially have it. However, when I sent it to a seamstress she kinda screwed it up by ironing the velvet material. I don't know how to explain how terrible I felt but it was basically like my dreams were crushed. I wanted to wear the dress for the longest time ever but my parents were just telling me to throw it away. Is there any way to restore it?
Try a flat cat brush with lots of steam
If it's not rayon you should be able to lift the nap with a lot of steam and a flat cat brush
With or without a petticoat, that dress is STUNNING!!!!! I can't believe you made it in a day! #goals #inspiration
Who else can’t go to the movies because of Coronavirus
What an beeeautful dress!!!! Good job, April!
Q1: Why are they doing the premier in such a large scale , when world is dealing with a pandemic.
Q2: Why are you attending the premier?
Btw...I love the dress...You are insanely talented.
You did such a great Job April. Hope it was an awesome night and congratulations on your enlopement. I love all your videos.
Aren't people boycotting Mulan due to the lead actress siding with the Hong Kong police over the citizens protesting for their freedom?
firexx78 yes idk why people are ignoring that
Yes! Thank you! I love the dress and I wanna support April but that made me so uncomfortable
You are so beautiful! That dress is gorgeous! Don't feel too bad for leaving the petticoat. You're stunning with AND without!
I love your dress and it’s lovely to see how you made it. However, the actress playing mulan is f-ed up the whole thing. Plus, they cancelled mushu from the story. What kind of demon will do sth like that?
Found your channel because I'm thinking about making my own wedding dress...and I really feel like I can do it after watching some of your videos! You break everything down step by step so well!!
#boycottmulan #freehongkong #freetibet #freetaiwan
Love your dress, but I wouldn't support anything mulan related after learning that the main actress supports police brutality in Hong Kong 😓
Same! Appreciate your work of the dress but please also consider that the actress supports police brutality in Hong Kong so antimulan!!
Love the 50's starlet vibe of this dress ♡
You are very talented. And I love your dress so much. So beautiful on you.
I cnt believe you made a dress in 1 day! And just the day before the event itself.. crazy! So incredeibly beautiful!! its must have been so cool walking the red carpet, getting your picture taken and it being a dress you designed and made yourself! amazing!
The dress is so pretty! Must have been an amazing feeling to walk a red carpet wearing your own dress!
Your dress is beautiful! With or without the petticoat.
Love love this dress. I couldn't stop smiling at how beautiful and romantic this dress is. What an exciting piece. I liked both with and without poofy... but you look great in what ever you create April. TFS