Begged Borrowed or Bought

I wanted to share a dress I made for myself from neckties.  Ok so the borrowed ties are not being returned to the owners anytime soon... but anyway..  It's been sitting on the dress form forever because I got zip phobia.. but I have NO IDEA why!
The scariest part was removing it from the dress form as the only thing holding it together at that point was about 300 pins.  But I got it off and sewed the ties together in groups of two and here it is!
22 wide ties and one invisible zip went into the making of this dress.  Getting the ties to cup the breast and not stick out like a wing was hard, but after a lot of ajustments and subtle overlap, it is cupping beautifully with absolutly no wing effect.  Horray!! Ive already got another one in the works.