This housedress was so comfy I could almost give up my sense of dignity and style, and just wear it as-is. 🙂
Fortunately, I snapped back to my senses when I realized I probably couldn’t get away with wearing this thing to work!
Time to take this dress from Housefrau Bleak to Office Chic! 🙂
First, I ripped off those pockets with my seam ripper! Don’t get me wrong, I love a good pocket, but since I was going to be taking this dress in from the sides, those pockets would just get in the way.
I trimmed of a bit of the fabric from the bottom. Usually I wait and do this at the very end, but I knew I’d want to make a nice long sash to tie around the waist of this dress. If I took the dress in first, my sash might be too short. I only trimmed of a teensy bit! 🙂
Then, I put the dress on my dress form inside-out, and pinned each side. I used my tape measure to make sure each side was even.
I ran each side through my machine…
…and lopped off that excess fabric!
My new dress is really shaping up! 🙂
I gave it a brand new hem…
…and then stitched down that front placket for the bottom three buttons. This will keep me from inadvertently showing off my *ahem* lady bits. No gaps for this gal!
I’m almost done! To finish this whole thing off, I snipped around the original bottom hem from what I cut off in the beginning. This will give me a nice, slender sash!
And now my dress is all ready for a day at work!
Of course, I had to take a break and grab some grub! 🙂
Cheers!
surprised you keep the collar but love it!!!
Love the T-strap shoes with the dress. Perfecto.
OK other than the fact that this is an AH-MAZING dress, i love that you used the word “hoohah” for your lady bits!!! I say that all the time!!!! Im addicted to your blog! Totally brilliant!
…and I’ve never thought I’d look forward to buying a MuuMuu.
Unbelievable before & after! Love it. Inspired.
I absolutely love the stripes! What a lovely dress it turned out to be, it was just hiding in there. The colors of the stripes are excellent!
I think this is my favorite refashion so far.
Love this one!
I CANNOT believe that turned out so freaking cute when it started so horribly wrong. Wow – great job once again!
cute!
I echo the other ladies — WOW!! You have such an amazing eye for refashioning. This refashion is absolutely in top 5 refashions. You took a house dress and made it work appropriate, but also way too cute. Great job!
Looks gorgeous on you, my fave refashion so far!
Fabulous refashion! I love it!
I stumbled on your website last week, and absolutely love it. I even got my bff reading it too. You are such a creative and talented person. Keep up the good work.
Wow! What a great refashion! I agree with Renee, the before looks like my mom well…everyday she’s disabled and really no longer cares how she looks but dang that after is lovely! So bright and fresh! I may have to start hunting me a striped housefrau to do something similar 😀
Love, LOve, Love!!!
Love it!
Wow, and it was looking like my mom (on her lazy days) in that first photo!
This is definitely one of my favorites!!!! 🙂
I cant actually get over how good that refashion looks on you!