Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Steel Magnolias Dress Refashion

The Before of this dress (thrifted of course)  feels very 80's, Southern to me, a la Steel Magnolias (of course I could be wrong, having never actually been to the South; my impressions coming strictly from movies):


There was a whole lotta fabric going on here!  The picture doesn't even do it justice - the shoulder/collar things looked like they were swallowing me whole!

But this was such an easy fix.  I snipped off the collar, just cutting as close to the seam as possible.  Then cut off about 10 inches from the bottom and hemmed.

And now:

a great little "fit and flare"

1 comment:

Refashion said...

I have such a huge soft spot for these big floral patterns! But you are right, that collar had to go!
Jenni
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