Above: Before. Below: After!
Hi again! Sorry it's been so long, yesterday was my first official day of graduate school. I'm about to depart for more errands (I bought two of the same textbook on accident, go me!) but wanted to update first. I haven't been slacking on the crafts, but I haven't taken any photos of my latest stuff. Eventually I will and will post them, but today's focus is this awesome 90s dress I got at Goodwill.
I've expressed my love of altering Goodwill clothing before, and this piece was just as easy as the dress in the link. The original dress had the hemline about 4" lower, a back and sleeves, and- of course- shoulder pads! What made me want to buy this was the little vintage crochet piece on the front and the little buttons right below it, and whatever I did to this dress must feature those pieces. So, halter!
Those were on the dress already and prettier than anything I can do.
I cut the shoulder pieces out to add to my collection and then cut the top of the dress into a halter shape sans the straps. I raised the hemline and used some of the fabric from that to make straps, sewed them on, and fitted the dress to me a little better, and BAM! Brand new dress in very nice condition for only $5, and nobody else has one like it! Bonus: this dress seriously slims me down. I'm fairly heavyset and it's nice to look skinny. Another bonus: cute and fresh without having to resort to copious amounts of cleavage.
This afternoon one of my stops will be at a local vintage dress shop I discovered in my college town, hopefully I'll have a post about that soon. For those of you in school, have fun, and for those who aren't, also have fun!
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