Fans of Mad Men will see absolutely no similarities between this…
and Megan’s dress from the Season 5 premiere.
Just bear with me okay? 🙂
I was inspired by the Bijou dress, and decided I wanted my own! I got started by removing those massive shoulder pads.
Next, I snipped off those wrist cuffs to make the sleeves nice & flowy!
Then I treated the edges with this stuff:
I could have hemmed the edges, but that would have made the ends of my sleeves heavy, making them not drape very nicely!
Now it was time to get this dress into shape! Megan’s dress is sexy & fitted, and mine needs to be both of these things as well! 🙂
I ran each side through my machine…
I trimmed off the extra fabric, then got to work on the length!
I hemmed the bottom raw edge…but I still wasn’t completely happy with the fit. I really wanted it to be a bit tighter, but didn’t have enough time to put it under the needle again. :/ I grabbed my fave brooch and used it to cinch the fabric around my waist just a tad more. This broke up the fuchsia a bit, too!
Whaddyathink? 🙂
I wore my slinky new frock for my dear pal Erin’s birthday dinner. 🙂
Afterwards, I made the rounds to a few other fun places. 😉
Cheers!
The dress went from mother of the bride to retro glam fabulous!
Also–What a transformation! Your finished dress reminds me of something Jeannie would wear for a special night-out with Master on I Dream of Jeannie. Mod-eriffic!
Have you considered buying a rolled-hem foot for your machine? It helps make tiny hems for lightweight fabric like this. Another option would be doing a zig-zag or similar stitch along the raw edge. 🙂
You know it’s a lazy sunday-morning when you go for “a quick check on your blog” and suddenly find yourself in a post from 2012… But oh my, Jillian, this one is so lovely!!!
Like the big red flower in your hair. 😉
Love the shoes 🙂
Been looking through the blog and LOVE this one! My favorite so far! – the wifey
I love the dress, love the color – fantastic work! 🙂
Love this one–adorable!
I love this one the best of everything I have seen so far, but I just found your blog…so there may be others!!
Fantastic!!!
Fabulous!
Wow ´- that is amazing, love it!
I was wrong… yesterday i wrote the jacket was my fave out of the whole blog but you have outdone yourself…. this is my fave!! Awesome.
Me gusta! Supe cute 🙂
Wonderful refashion!
I seriously think this could be my favoritw. although, you have a lot of great refashes… i dunno….this one is friggin awesome!!!
love it!
Awesome!
You are so inspiring. Reading your blog makes me want to remake stuff all the time. I pulled an old jacket from my Goodwill pile and took it in the same way you did this dress. It came out great, and I have you to thank.
Incredible transformation! Might be my favorite.