Sunday, September 02, 2012

Dress Refashion // Tie Neck Dress


So I found this awesome dress at the thrift store.




Awesome, right? I could go camping in it. (In the poor dress's defense, it was originally a maternity dress.)


I really loved the fabric. It's a nice, swishy, machine-washable rayon in an adorable print.




I originally had planned to knock off a particular ModCloth dress, but was unable to find a contrasting fabric that I liked. (Don't worry, one day....just be patient.) I realized the swaths of fabric I cut off the bottom could easily be refashioned into my-super-favorite-style:  neck ties! 

The neck ties are rather hard to see in these pictures, but they're there. Promise. Gah! I may have created my new favorite dress. It just looks like a teacher dress, right? I love dresses with sleeves. 

Though I didn't create a tutorial for this dress, the premise is simple - take up a longer dress and turn the trimmed off bit into neck ties (see tutorial here).




2 comments:

Refashion said...

The "new" dress is super sweet - theoriginal was soooo huge!
Thanks for sharing

Debbie
EOD

Cucicucicoo said...

i love this! you must've taken a bunch off the sides, too. it looks great with the belt like that! :) lisa