Tuesday, February 19, 2013

New sleeves


As a refashioner, my favorite words to hear are, “I have a bag of clothes for you.” This is especially true if these words are spoken by my sister, who has great taste in clothes. She recently passed along several cute dresses, and I picked this one to work with first.


It is an H & M dress with pintucks, a belt, and pockets, all lovely details, and it fit very well. I just thought it needed a bit more contrast.


I had these lovely sleeves that I had removed from a gray, herringbone jacket I used on another project. I decided to add them to the dress. The sleeve edge was a bit larger than the sleeve-hole in the dress, so I gathered the top of the sleeve, like so.


I knew this would give me a nice puff at the top of the sleeve. I decided to leave the original dress sleeves intact, in case I ever wanted to remove the gray ones. I sewed the new sleeves on right at the seam between the existing sleeves and the dress. Here’s how it turned out.


I am very pleased with the contrast between the sleeves and the dress, in both the colors and textures of the fabrics. The herringbone also adds a menswear flair to the dress that I love.

Thanks for reading!

Amy

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Brilliant idea, looks really good!

Far said...

I love it!

a Matula ikrek said...

Looks so much better then before. :o)

Adele said...

That looks really nice. I love puff sleeves, they are so girly and pretty.

Adele - EOD

Unknown said...

Never thought of this - but it's a very cool idea - now archived somewhere in my brain :-)

Anonymous said...

This is so cute. When I saw the before pic, I didn't know if it could get any cuter, but this is fantastic. My favorite thing about refashioning is knowing you have a one of a kind garment when you're finished!
~Jen