A Modest Princess

 

Always test your clothing in sunlight to see how sheer it appears. When standing up against a window with sunlight pouring in Sierra noticed that Lauren’s 2$ thrift store skirt was completely revealing. We thus hunted for a lining fabric, and found a green skirt at the thrift outlet for 25 cents that we thought would work. We were very lucky in that both skirts had the same unique closure with overlapping button clasp. Originally we were just going to line the skirt, but then discovered we could make a reversible skirt and we embellished it with lace from a shirt, also a 25 cent find! Total cost for reversible skirt: 2.50$

One skirt was shorter and narrower than the other.

We found a lace shirt to extend the shorter skirt and  thought it would be cute if it were to stick out the bottom of the reverse skirt as well.

We seam ripped and cut the shirt to get the pieces of lace needed. Our shirt had a lot of great eyelet lace to work with, a lace collar and lace up and down the buttons.

When worn in reverse you could see the hem of the inner skirt and so we covered that with lace trim as well.

The skirt we are adding the lace to has a slit, so we are using the shirt collar to add a lace edge to the slit.

 

Finally we added a lace trim to the waistband to tie it all together.

And now have an awesome reversible skirt!