Day 231: Mardi Gras Dress
When I saw today’s dress, I knew it would be just the thing for a Mardi Gras Celebration! 🙂
…as long as it was a celebration in the 80’s. :/
I love the gold hue, and the luxurious silk fabric, but I wanted something cute and fun to catch a parade with friends…and this wasn’t it!
I decided to completely lose the top part of the dress.
Chop!
I left just enough of the fabric from the top part to fold over and pin. Then I stitched it down.
Sewing right along the orginal seam!
Now I needed straps for my new dress. I whipped up two fabric tubes from the leftover sleeve fabric…
Strap Tease!
and pinned them to the front and back of my new dress!
Pinned!
I stitched them down, and was all done (after a quick press!)
Whirrrrr!
I slipped on some purple tights and green accessories, and was ready to meet up with my pals for pre-parade cocktails and pizza!
Ta-Dah! 🙂
Pre-party wine tasting! 🙂
Pals!
Pizza!
Phillip whips up some tasty cocktails! 🙂
We headed off to watch the parade…but never quite found it! :/ We ended up traipsing all over the Rosewood neighborhood, laughing at our lack of parade tracking skills. 🙂
We’ll be our own parade! 🙂
Sometimes life is the parade. 🙂
Happy Mardi Gras, everybody! 🙂
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3 Responses to Day 231: Mardi Gras Dress
Love the refashion — especially that you kept the drape in the front. Look forward to seeing the bodice show up in a later refashion.
Love This! Doesn’t really even look like a refashion.
That’s a dramatic before and after!
🙂
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