Tunic and Vest from Dress and Jacket

#82 Back to School Wardrobe

REFLECTIONS:  Current focus on Re-fashions includes pre-retirement University professional clothing to fit the current lifestyle.   

Current part-time work needs are:

• Professional clothing, but not at the University level.
• Business casual clothing.    

BEFORE: Unstructured suit-dress that fit the on-campus University life-style.

Imagine:

• hose and heels for fall / spring
• sandals for summer  

STEPS:  I wanted a looser tunic style fit. I switched rolls.  Original sleeveless dress becomes tunic with sleeves. Original jacket becomes vest.

• Remove sleeves from jacket. Open sides of jacket and dress.
• Cut 4” strips from the bottom of the dress.  Insert strips into sides of original dress (now tunic), original jacket (now vest), and sleeves.
• Re-insert sleeves.

AFTER:  Vertical stipes in the inserts against original horizontal stripes was a good design element.  

• Tunic with new sleeves.
• Vest to layer over tunic.    

AFTER:
New tunic / vest
for more casual part-time work

AFTER:
Looser tunic style
Sleeves switched to create vest and tunic.

New vertical insert
cut from dress length
adds design element

Looser tunic style top. 

BEFORE:
On-campus unstructured suit-dress.
Imagine hose and closed toe shoes.

BEFORE:
On-campus sheath dress with jacket.
No sleeveless allowed.