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I go to the thrift store every Wednesday but I don’t always find something that is usable. I like the dresses to have a punchy print. This dress was perfect. See before photo at bottom.
I love the color scheme of red white and royal blue. It’s so summer and light.
Originally this dress fit like a Hawaiian moomoo. To refashion it I cut it at the waist. With the extra material I took from the midsection I created a waist band with two decorative straps that come together near the front with two antique white buttons.
I then sewed two strips of royal blue material that matched the blue tulips on the dress into the bottom as a trim. And finally added white piping along all of the seams.
I also created the hair piece. It is made from layers of red stretched nylon chiffon petals with a canary yellow button in the center and blue velvet ribbon ties.
I don’t normally paint my fingernails. Like I mentioned before in this blog, I’ve never been the manicure type. But I recently dyed my hair without using rubber gloves which made my fingernails absolutely DISGUSTING!
They look like I’ve been clawing at the ground all day. This happens every time I dye my hair and I have to dye a lot. Every since I was 17 I’ve been getting long white hairs. They stand out against my dark black locks.
So long story short I had to paint them a very opaque color. Red was the most appropriate for this dress.
I got the table flowers from our own garden. I don’t really know what sort of flower they are but when they bloom they are the most beautiful, full flora around our home.
It made me a little sad to cut two off. I tried to break it to them easily. Before I did it, I walked past the bushes and told them I had to cut two of them at the stem. I imagined they all waited in fear for the next ten minutes until I came back with the scissors and made the difficult choice.
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Jul 6, 2010, 09.15 PMby sophielophie
I love the waist band and the fabric is lovely and summery!
Jul 5, 2010, 11.54 AMby anna agyekum
lovely photos lovely dress x
Jul 4, 2010, 03.47 PMby loyl8
super adorable and perfect for the 4th!!!
Jul 3, 2010, 04.59 PMby kelepso
Beautiful job. You’re amazing. I love the refashion. I think I’d like to try it one day.
Jul 3, 2010, 02.46 AMby nessys
So sweet – love what you’ve done to the dress – once again, your skills soar in the sky like fireworks!!
I also really appreciate your respect for the flowers. This touches my heart.
Jul 2, 2010, 10.12 PMby jamaicanqueen
This dress is beautiful.. Great job!!!!!
Jul 2, 2010, 06.33 PMby cbsheff
Super charming and adorable.
Jul 2, 2010, 06.27 PMby moonstar
haha you are so cute wanting to break it easily to your flowers. :) btw cute dress.
Jul 2, 2010, 03.40 PMby leahfranqui
So so cute!
Jul 2, 2010, 03.02 PMby tamezdc
Adorable remake!
Jul 2, 2010, 02.44 PMby strawberrypancakesbykim
this is adorable! Good refashion.