refashion skirt fail turned shirt dress success!

I tried to make the bottom half of this shirt dress into a skirt with a waistband from an old pair of jeans
   

loved it....but....


the waistband and the button band didn't match up. #refashionfail

so....i chopped off some length on the skirt and on an old striped cotton shirt...


and made a shirt dress instead!


here it is styled it with a new pair of oxfords and a blazer!