Apparently you need two white dresses for your wedding these days! Actually the wedding ceremony was in the morning and so a 2nd dress was selected for more comfortable wearing later in the day. This one needed some very last minute alterations as Emily bought the dress the afternoon before the wedding and texted me […]
Posts Tagged / Cap Sleeve
Long Sleeve to Short
I love that I get new ideas for #ModestPrincess through helping others, a neighbor asked me to turn this long sleeve dress into short sleeved because it’s just so adorable and would be too small by the time the weather turns cooler again. Super easy alteration to make and a fabulous way to make a […]
Adding Sleeves to Lace Dress
This Lace Dress just needs sleeves to #MakeitModest and the length was a bit awkward- not quite full length so we decided to shorten it and thus we’d have the matching lining and lace fabric to make #CapSleeves. Having measured how much shorter we wanted to make the dress (and made sure that would be […]
Adding Pleated Cap Sleeves to Prom Dress
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 […]
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 […]
Spaghetti Straps to Sleeves on Dress
I found this gorgeous white spaghetti strap dress at the Thrift Outlet for 25 cents and having picked up a purple shirt for 25 cents on a previous trip to the Thrift Outlet, it seemed a perfect fit for adding sleeves and a little color to this dress. First I seam ripped the purple […]
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 […]