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