Although Sierra was happy with the black lace overlay on the grey dress for Simply Prom- it’s not what she wanted to wear to her school prom. The 2nd dress that she bought at Bluebird resale shop, was the color she had hoped the original dress she ordered online would be. The cut of the dress made her feel more elegant – but again, it was immodest, this time with a single beaded strap.
This time the zipper was up the side. Having experienced with the ‘Lace overlay Prom Dress’ the difficulties of removing and sewing a zipper back in, and again having limited time. We opted to take the dress in from the side opposite to the zipper. We simply opened up the seam, pinned the dress to fit and sewed the seam back up – much easier!
The dress now fit… and just needs sleeves! At first we thought we might use the fabric from the center back train to construct a matching top, but as you can see Sierra soon fell in love with the train. The dress also looked really bad from the back without it. So we went fabric shopping – and discovered that fabric stores need mirrors! Instead we took pictures so Sierra could see which color fabric matched best.
We found, at Hancock Fabric’s a very similar fabric – and being sheer we bought nude lining fabric as well. Then again, inspired by Kristina J. Clemens and her ‘How to make a strapless Dress Modest’ in The Chic Girl’s Guide to a One-of-a-Kind Wardrobe. We traced the yoke of a t-shirt that Sierra liked the sleeves of and create a pattern for the top of the dress.
We then layered the pink and lining fabric, and cut out 2 of each – front and back matching. We then separated the pieces and adjusted the neckline of the two front pieces only, again using a t-shirt Sierra liked as a pattern. Now the neckline was lower in the front than the back.
Right sides together we then sewed the shoulder seams, and hemmed the sleeves. The fabric was stretchy enough that we were able to just fold down the edge of the neckline and stitch it down.
Having removed the beaded strap, we then sewed the top into place, using invisible stitching instead of invisible thread. We could have been done…
The top worked, but it looked oh so plain. At first we thought of sewing beading on but then we realized that the strap, which had come off in two pieces was actually the perfect length to sew directly on as a front neckline!
Again using invisible thread we sewed the beading to the neckline and transformed the top from blah to wow!
Another Modest Princess transformation for Prom complete!
Spaghetti Straps to Sleeves on Dress 
Two Dresses become a Two-in-One skirt
So, what do you think ?