First, I hacked off the skirt to a shorter length. Then, took in the whole thing a couple of inches on each side. This made the skirt just look plain weird, so I undid my seams on the skirt and re-shaped it to what you see here. But THEN I realized that the skirt was suuuuuper short! While I am certainly not opposed to showing a lil thigh, I wanted to wear this dress to work, soooooo, that explains that panel at the bottom. I actually like it better with the bottom panel, as it makes the bottom of the dress look more interesting. I even sewed it on with my awesome rainbow thread!
With the dress completed, I strapped on my bronzy gladiators, earrings, and a tiny vintage pin, along with the original belt (woot!) that was still with the dress when I bought it.
Not bad for a dolla.
I love all your ideas and refashions, but this one is probably more my style. I am 25 and I have worn a dress out in public (without a mean mom making me) maybe one time in my whole life. And I had to wear pantyhose because I also dont wear shorts in public. My legs are blinding. I love this one
Woa girl ! You not only chopped off the dress ! Wow ! Bold Jillian ! You rock girl !!!
Qudos for the FOTC reference and the shaven head! I did it for cancer research 2 years ago (losing my precious dreadlocks). I’ve been reading your whole blog…… Like a psycho stalker of epic proportions and I love it! Great dress and I love the sci-fi references along the way ;)
Was just going to say I love all the references too, my other favorite is the grease reference that happens way later.