Friday, January 29, 2016

Too narrow dress gets added hip width

I am sorry for the quality of the pictures. No sunlight and only a mobile phone camera is not the best premisses for good photos.
I fell completely in love with this dress, that I found in my favourite charity shop. It was a size medium and fit me well in the upper body, but was to narrow around my hips/bum. I bought it anyway. I have methods for that sort of thing...

- I ripped the side seams of the dress up to about where my hip bone would be.
- I found a remnant of black chiffon, and pinned it to my foam floor tiles (that I use for workout), so it couldn't run away from me, that pesky thing.
- I measured from my hipbone to the hem of the dress. I added 2 cm (hem) and 1 more cm (upper seam).
- Then I used a pin and my measuring tape as a pair of compasses, using the number from above in order to draw half a circle. I cut it into two fourths.

Chiffon is a notorious pain in the behind to hem, but back when I made my poofy frilly skirt, I found a clever way of tackling it hemming chiffon. You can also see it in the blog post for this refashion: Hemming chiffon

Once I had seamed the gussets, I stitched them to the ripped open side seams.

I wear a black satin slip underneath in case you were wondering.


I had a narrow satin belt that fit just nicely to dress. Now I am ready for a party to come my way. :-D


11 comments:

Sandy said...

Good save! love the dress on you.
Sandy in the UK

Catherine Harnisch said...

I love the refashion. It is so much better than the original. I like the flare a the bottom!

kitblu said...

I loved the original dress and almost didn't look at the refashion.
I would have never suspected that you had altered the original had I not seen it myself. It still looks like an original!
Well done. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Andrea said...

Really great save! Love this refashion :)

Andrea EOD

jenny_o said...

What a pretty fix!

Anonymous said...

Very clever refashion

Catherine1216 said...

The original was pretty, but your refashion made it beautiful. I love the after.

Alyssa said...

So cute, i like your refashion way more than the origenal!

Alyssa said...

So cute, i like your refashion way more than the origenal!

TheRefashStash said...

That is so beautiful!!! It looks better than the original, like it was meant to be that way!

-TheRefashStash

Unknown said...

Amazing! I never would have thought of that