Flower Power

Here is the refashion of the vintage dress I got on the weekend. I'm going to be wearing it on Saturday night for a dinner. Love it!

To start it was incredibly short and too wide for me. No way I would wear something that short. When I purchased it I was thinking I might turn it into a tunic to wear over pants, but something else evolved.

First I unpicked and removed the tie around the neck, which wasn't really my style.

Luckily, it had a huge hem, which was sewn only into the inside of the fabric, so it didn't show on the outside. This gave me about 2 inches extra length when I let this down.

Each side got at least an inch chopped off it and taken in.

I opened up the ties.

Then I sewed them together into one continuous strip. I then added this to the bottom of the dress for another extra couple of inches of length.

There were a couple of holes due to old age.

So I used these tiny scraps from the tie to make some patches. One at the front and a couple at the back.

Here's a patch close up.

 I'm very happy now. The hemline is slightly asymmetrical as I decided to go with the way the tie was angled.

You can see the flower patch at the front in this one.