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So, this year’s prom dress was slightly less complicated than last year’s dresscue.  Of course, 2011 had a twisty middle and end.

This year’s dress was also inspired by a trip to NYC  last December and a visit to Shareen Vintage. A girl has to start planning Prom way in advance. Post inspiration, was a trip to Osgoods for fabric and supplies and then the sewing began.  Within a few weeks months the dress shaped into this: [I love that Jan got captured in the background.  She was taking images as well.]

the back of the dress looks like this:

I lined the entire dress and created the straps by cutting and gluing vinyl strips together.

Here’s the whole gang:

Even Brendan happened to be in town:

Xernay and Maggie:

And Mr Harp:And Xernay’s friend:

A good time was had by all.

What will be the next Dresscue?

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One more reminder to get your product/service out into the marketplace so you can begin learning.  Market without fear. The longer an idea stays on the table, the less chance the business has for success, says Sean Devine, CEO of CourseSmart.

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Don’t change the vision, pivot to a new strategy.  Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup,  coined the term pivot and here he is explaining the term. Watch and learn how YouTube, Twitter and Groupon abruptly changed course before they achieved success.  If they hadn’t pivoted, YouTube would have been a dating site, Twitter would be a podcasting website and Groupon would still be organizing political protests.