My daughter loves to go to the thrift stores with me. Since she has found that her clothing purchasing power goes a lot further that way. When she showed me this dress, I just shook my head and said "No, you don't want that." To me this dress looked like an 80's nightmare, crinkled rayon in pink and turquoise with a crazy pattern. What were the designers thinking? Too long sleeves and blousey top that hung over the drop waist with sash, yuck. But. my daughter saw something in it and bought it anyway. Then it was up to me to transform her vision into reality.
First we separated the top from the skirt section. I shortened the sleeves and hemmed the bottom. She was happy with just those changes and I have to admit it looks nice on her. She wears it with jeans, but, I think it could easily go with a dressier pair of slacks.
She didn't have any plans for the bottom skirt portion. I was going to just put it away for another day, but, it looked to me like we could also make a strapless dress or tie waist skirt from the bottom section. I added some elastic to give the top some support and help avoid accidental exposure as a dress. The sash is tied in the back but it could be tied in the front. It can also be worn as a skirt with the sash tied at the side or front.
Thank you for reading.
Jean
4 comments:
What a great idea. Love the dress part of the refashion!
Love your story and the fact that your daughter is included in the refashioning and thrifting. Hmm how to get her on that sewing machine though - tricky one.
Eddie EOD
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Just a reminder to use your label: MsJeanUpcycles
I've added it this time :-)
Eddie EOD
Let me also just add:
Thank you for sharing this refashion on the Refashion Co-op :-)
I would be ever so grateful if you would help me build an awesome resource for dress refashions by sharing your dress refashion tutorials here and your fab dress refashions here!
xx Eddie
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