With only days to spare, Makayla brought over her strapless prom dress in need of a #ModestyFix. Luckily she just wanted simple straps with cap sleeves and I even had leftover fabric from Devyn’s Winter Ball Dress which just happened to match her dress! I first tried with a pattern I had used for a previous […]
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Refashion to Princess Dress
This pink dress, picked up for 99cents at the Thrift Outlet was easily transformed into a Princess Dress with puff sleeves – my most functional (and pretty) sleeves added so far. The dress needed to be resized slightly so I seam ripped the shoulder straps and resewed them slightly shorter. I found a puff sleeve […]
High Low & Cap Sleeve Prom Dress
Prom almost always requires a little sewing to make a dress modest, here we added cap sleeves and Camille needed the dress hemmed and for something a little different and ot make dancing easier we decided on a High Low hem. First we seam ripped the arm hole – as the dress has a complete bodice cap sleeves […]
Beaded Neckline Prom Dress
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 […]
Lace Overlay Prom Dress 2nd Version
Elise wasn’t sure how she wanted to make her strapless gown modest for Prom, I suggested we do a lace overlay like Sierra’s Lace Overlay Prom Dress using some leftover lace from Sariah’s dress and it turned out that the navy lace went well with her coral/orange prom dress. I even had leftover pink silk night […]
Adding Cap Sleeves to a Formal Dress
Photo by Dana Larsen The key to adding sleeves to a dress and making them look like they were part of the original design is mainly in the choice of fabric. In this refashion I was fortunate to have the exact fabric to work with, as the dress was on clearance and Sariah bought […]
Lace Overlay Prom Dress
Finding the right dress for prom is hard and finding a modest dress even harder. Sierra found and ordered a modest prom dress online – however when it came she was not happy with the color – it was bubblegum pink, not the pale pink it appeared in the picture on the website. The dress […]
Wide Straps/Sleeves added to Winterball Dress
Having asked a date to Winterball, Devyn needed a dress and sent me the following text: Resale shops are great places to get formal gowns on a small budget. You just need time to find the right one, and with a little creativity make any alterations needed – which I offered to help with. Devyn took […]