Tuesday, November 19, 2013

80's Power Dress to Batwing short dress

I thrifted this large 80's 100% pure virgin wool jersey dress from my local thrift store for a few dollars. I liked the forest green colour and I liked wool jersey. I also liked the gold button details on the shoulder. The only problem was that I didn't examine the dress too closely and only discovered later that there were many moth holes on the dress!

After removing the shoulder pads and doing some quick hemming and narrowing of the dress body as well as moth hole repairs, this is the resultt:

2 comments:

jennifer elliott said...

Very nice! Great refashion!

Unknown said...

I think that is an amazing refashion. Wish it was mine :-)

Thanks,
Eddie, EOD