Shorter is better – for hemlines anyway February 6, 2009
Posted by Sarah in clothes, dress, fabric, home made, refashion, sewing, thrifty.trackback
I picked this dress up from a local thrift store a couple of months ago because I loved the colour. It was two sizes too big for me but I saw immediate potential, and for $4 you can’t really complain can you.
I’ve been wearing it around the house recently as is, because its so big and roomy in this hot weather. But I caught a glance of myself yesterday when I was shopping with it on and I realised that I really needed to do something about it. Trust me, it wasn’t good.
Last night I took the bottom 3 inch panel of blue off with my quick unpick. Today I took the sides in and took the bottom hem up another 7 inches.
It really does need a belt to break it up, but these two of mine will do until I get around to making something specific for it.
I love how it came out. It’s quite cute I think!
That is so very cute. Shawn said it was really cool too. Well done you. Refashioning feels great doesn’t it!
Thanks Stacey and Shawn! Yes I do love to refashion things, it’s so cool to give something a new lease of life. I’ve been doing alot of it but keep forgetting to take before photos! Well, this is a start, more to come soon :)