Day 69: Meet Me in the Piazza Dress

Today’s dress could have come right out of Designing Women.

I used to love that show as a kid, but I don’t feel the need to emulate the Sugarbaker Sisters with my own wardrobe.  🙂

That’s why I lopped off those pads.

Next, I removed the sleeves with my seam ripper.

Disarming this dress (see what I did there?) left some icky raw edges for me to deal with.

I didn’t like that constricting neck either.  I removed the top two buttons, and stitched it into a much nicer V.  🙂

We’re almost done!  I used my red thread to tie the tops of the shoulders of the dress oh-so-tightly.  This made the top of my new dress more fitted, and gave it more of an elegant look.  🙂

Cheers!