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Day 360: Men’s Button Up Shirt to Dress Refashion

Day 361: The Right to Bare Arms...er...Arm Dress
Day 359: Scrap-Busting Dress

Today’s piece was a rare find!  🙂

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Extra long = Perfect dress potential!!!!

A Men’s 3X shirt isn’t such a rare thing, but an extra-long shirt is.  I pretty much always have to go with shirts that are 3X and above to have enough length to make a proper dress (proper=reaches the end of my fingertips and covers my naughty bits).

Of course, this shirt wasn’t going to work as a dress…yet!  First off, as a white shirt it was kind of see-through, so into a bath ‘o dye it went!

Remember that top from Day 357?  Well, it wasn’t alone!  🙂

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Once more into the green!
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Never Bathe Alone! 😉

Since this dress was made of rayon, I knew it wouldn’t take on too dark of a hue, and that was just fine.  🙂  After a rinse and dry, my shirt was ready to be dressified!  I took it in about 5″ on each side.

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Pin it!
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Sew it!
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Trim it!

After a quick press, my new dress was ready for a gorgeous summer day!  🙂

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Wearing my big girl shoes!

Cheers!

refashionista Men's Button Up Shirt to Dress Refashion Before and After
Day 361: The Right to Bare Arms...er...Arm Dress
Day 359: Scrap-Busting Dress

14 thoughts on “Day 360: Men’s Button Up Shirt to Dress Refashion”

  1. Great makeover! I have to look around on your blog, you have realy great ideas 🙂
    sorry for my language, i havent been writing for years 😉 greetings from Poland!

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  2. Im a guy and have been looking EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE for a long collared shirt!! do you know of anywhere online?? I’m going insane and i have a big party on the 9th of june!! any help would be GREAT!!!

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    • You can either A. Get lucky and find one at the thrift store, or B. Go to a Big & Tall store to find some Extra Long Goodness. Not sure where else to find Extra Long Shirts, as they’re sort of a specialty thing.

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  3. What a gift you have! I went to a thrift store today trying to find a shirt this big and no luck. I didn’t have enough time but a lot of things that I saw I was just thinking about what you would do with it! I just started following you!

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  4. holymoly, that is some shirt! you really saved its life. So sad now that we are counting down the days till day 365. Please keep going after that. you have become a ray of SC sunshine in my rainy Scottish days!

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  5. Wow! You really have a fantastic vision for possibilities!!! Who would have known that cute dress was in that hugh shirt. You go girl! What an inspiration you are.

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