We’re going to start today with a little mood music, okay? I want you to play this song in the background as you read this (It’ll be your anthem for tomorrow). 🙂
I was pleasantly surprised by a text from Fella telling me that Nathan Angelo added a last minute Columbia show to his Follow Your Heart tour. 🙂 Of course I didn’t have anything to wear except this vintage housedress.
The print is beautiful & exotic, and I love that weird button-thing in the middle of it. Unfortunately, I’m seeing waaaay too much of it, and I’m going to fix that. 🙂
I began by putting the dress on my dress form inside-out and pinning the edges where I wanted to take this dress in/give it a bit more shape.
Then, I ran each side through my machine.
I cut off the excess material and made a few amputations. 🙂
To finish the whole thing off, I hemmed those raw edges and pressed them.
Now I have a fun fall frock that is perfect for a Tuesday evening concert at The White Mule! 🙂
The show was awesome. If you ever get the chance to see Nathan Angelo live, you really should. I even managed to snap a quick pic with Nathan after his show! 🙂
Cheers!
Thanks for introducing me to new music; I pinned the song and some others. If that dress was straight, it would look like a Japanese tunic.
OH my GOSH!! I just found your blog and I am addicted!! (to the dismay of my homework) Definitely a college girl’s dream! And then I clicked on the song for today and FREAKED! I grew up with Nathan and was so excited that my new favorite fashion blogger loved him!
I love Nathan Angelo! My university has had him to Kansas City a couple of times 🙂
So I’m reading catching up on my backlog of RSS feeds, starting with Refashion Co-op, and I see a post mentioning Sid & Nancy! So I found your blog and LOVE your refashions! I, too, live in Columbia, (Cue “It’s a small world after all.” I am just starting to sew-after my thrifted clothing pile threatened to overtake me! I am adding your blog to my RSS feed now! I am looking forward to seeing what’s next. We do have some quite nifty thrift stores here in the Midlands…
Thanks for the song and introduction to Nathan Angelo. Love what you did with the dress. Orange, my favorite color. You look smashing. Success again!
Gorgeous, fabulous fabric and colour – you do come across the most amazing things! Like the song too – had never heard of Nathan Angelo. Glad you had fun!
Thanks! I’m a lucky gal indeed to have so many great (and cheap!) thrift stores around me. 🙂 I’m glad you like Nathan Angelo. His music (and especially that song) puts me in a great mood when I have a case of the blahs. 🙂
Wow!!!!!!!!! Sooooooo loved reading this!! And what you did w/that dress!! You go girl!! Nathan Angelo’s mom 🙂 PS: His newest album is coming out in September. WE’re all soooo excited about it!