Vintage Wedding Dress

The before dress was pretty, but I couldn't move. At all. The sleeves and neck were so tight, I had no option, but to cut them out! I loved the button detail, and all the lace, but... well... It's a vintage wedding gown, and I wanna wear it!

So I cut them off, and finished all the edges. I just followed the natural line that the lining created (ha-ha) Then I added temporary straps because it needed them to stay up. It still looked like a wedding dress, and that really limits your wearing options, so...
 

 











  




I put in in a dye pot of teal. The dress was homemade, so I could only guess what it was made of. Thankfully, I had some material from what I cut off the dress to run some test dyes. I was teetering between bright orange, and this color. I went with teal because I have two other orange dresses. The color came out amazing! The lining turned robin's egg blue, and the lace has a more greenish hue.

 I added straps to tie because I don't always have someone to button me

 into it, and fixed straps would be very hard to deal with. The ribbon 

was an afterthought, and matched completely by accident. Now I can 

wear this to weddings, and no one will know what it used to be :)

Facinator

This used to be... yep, a sleeve from a bridesmaid's dress. I put it on a headband, and it scrunched over to the side like this on its own. There will be more experiments like this. I am going to be taking a lot of dresses apart, and I have to do something with the sleeves... They could be really fantastic clutches too. Stay tuned for that.

Classic bridesmaids dress (see 1980's) REDO!

Before.

There were two more matching bows on the back.

After!

We should only have one focal point per dress. Not seven.