My best kept Resale shopping trick? Shop in the kids section! This size 16 kids dress was a super find at only 25cents and turned into an awesome adult small skirt with expandable waist in a few simple steps. All good refashions start with a seam ripper, I first removed the straps and the […]
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T-shirt to Fitted Undershirt
Lauren had a black top with lace portions, thus she needed to wear a t-shirt under it and wanted a colored one as it would show through the lace. She found a green athletic fit t-shirt at the Thrift outlet for 25cents). Worn under the black top it was too bulky, and the v-neck conflicted […]
Two Dresses become a Two-in-One skirt
What’s better than one awesome skirt? a two-in-one! We found the dress with the lace first (it was originally a spaghetti strap dress – we started cutting before taking a picture). We couldn’t simply turn the dress into a skirt as the lining was too tight, so we removed the lace from the lining. After some […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scoop Neck to Crew Neck
Sometimes you only need a small alteration to make it modest and this can be frustrating when you are shopping. For me one problem lies with scoop neck tees and I’m so excited that I’ve now found a quick and easy fix for these! Especially as I just picked up these three gorgeous color t-shirts […]
Strapless Dress to Yoga Waistband Skirt
I started with a strapless dress a few sizes too big and didn’t like any of the options of adding sleeves to this dress so decided to make it into a skirt with a yoga waistband using the bottom of a t-shirt. I first seam ripped the skirt from the bodice of the dress as […]
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 a T-shirt to a Strapless Yellow Dress
I was originally going to use a lace shirt and do a lace overlay on this dress, but having found a yellow t-shirt exactly the same as one of the colors in the print on the dress I really didn’t see the need for the lace. I also think the lace would have looked too […]
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 […]