Clown Collar with Bias Tape/Fabric Ties instead of Elastic

Here's a photo of three of my little dresses with the Clown Collar.

This is the body of the dress. I stitched a couple of inches across at the centerpoint in the front of the dress (turning under like a casing), and then cut the fabric at an angle on each side in order to slide up under the Clown Collar.

The Clown Collar is approximately 6 inches long x the width of the body of the dress...approximately 42 inches if you are using a pillowcase. I know it doesn't look like it in this picture, but the seam is a good inch, so it can be turned under and stitched (in this picture I don't think I stitched it because the fabric was finished on the edges and I didn't feel the need to). When sewing the fabric together, I stitched about 3 to 4 inches, leaving a couple of inches open in order to turn it under.

                                          This is what it looks like from the front. 

                         

Then I turned the top of the Clown Collar under twice in order to form the casing.

I slid the body of the dress into the casing of the Clown Collar. I then stitched Clown Collar to body of dress (about an inch)...just enough so I could feed the bias tape through the casing.

This shows the bias tape coming through.

I added bias tape on the bottom of the Clown Collar or you can simply hem it.