Day 274: Deco Dress
I really love living in the south. 🙂 The gorgeous weather makes up for how backwards we tend to be in areas such as politics. 😉 When I found today’s dress, I knew its lightweight linen fabric would be just the thing for yet another lovely spring day!
Linen!
Alright. This dress is obviously too big, and the print is really dated. :/ I actually like the fun fronds that adorn it, but it screams early 90′s! :/ Undaunted, I reached for a box of dye!
Purple time!
I threw in a few other things too!
I ran into a slight problem when dying this one. The washing machine in my new digs doesn’t get hot water for some reason. :/ This shall be rectified, but the color of the dress was less saturated than what I was really going for. Still, this was an improvement over the original hue, so I let it slide. 🙂
I put my newly purplified dress on my dress form and began taking it in!
Pinned!
Then, I ran each pinned side under the needle!
Whirrrrr!Plan 9
I pressed my wrinkle-happy new frock and rushed out the door to catch the 2nd performance of Plan 9, followed by many drinks with friends! 🙂
Mmmmmn! Pale Ale!
I like this dress a lot. I feel like it has more of a 1940′s feel now. 🙂
My sweet Art Deco accessories complete the look! 🙂
Tall Glass/Short Glass! 🙂
Cheers!
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7 Responses to Day 274: Deco Dress
I love the transformation of this dress – the purple really works well. I read your blog regularly, but somehow I did not realise that you have so much going on, and want you to know that I think you are amazing. I can’t believe that you doing the costumes for Plan 9 and your blog and work and you always look like you are having fun.
What a difference – looks great!
I love how the purple color just makes the dress pop now… Very cute!
Jeanna
I really love this one. You are inspiring me to try and wear dresses more. You are a busy lady, but it looks like a lot of fun, too!
Ok I have a question–can you use the dye in your regular washer and the next time you wash a load of laundry, nothing will come out purple?? I want to dye some clothing but I was worried that all the dye color wouldn’t all wash out of the washer. Thanks–I love your blog!!!!
I like this one a lot and I think that it’s just the right shade of purple. It looks pretty and comfortable and just right for warm weather.
The original looks like dresses I made for my Mom when she got older. Great recovery.
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