Day 217: Earning my Stripes Dress
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…
Day 119: Apple Jack Dress
So…here’s something unattractive! As I have no intention of auditioning for a remake of Mama’s Family, this piece is going to need a bit of work before it’ll be wearable. I started off by removing that hokey lace from the collar, sleeves, and pockets. Then, I lopped off some of that length. I turned that bottom scrap into a sash to cinch the waist of my new dress. I wore my new dress to work on my Halloween costume. I can’t wait to show it to you guys! Here’s a sneak peek! 🙂 I spent the rest of my evening getting in the Halloween mood by watching scary movies. 🙂…
Day 83: Orange you Glad it’s Fall? Dress
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…
Teal We Meet Again
Today’s dress didn’t have much to love about it, other than the color. I’m a sucker for teal, so I snagged it right away! I didn’t know what to make of it. It just sort of hung there in a non-fun shapeless manner. Time to get to work! I didn’t like the sleeves being all long and in the way, so I made them 3/4 sleeves instead. The biggest problem with this dress was how utterly shapeless and blah it was. I put it on and pinned it where it would fit nicely at my bust, waist, and hips, then used my sewing gauge to measure each side to keep…
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Welcome to a magical holiday edition of ReFashionista which will fill you with wonder and a special warm, fuzzy joy! Okay…not really. This is very much like any other entry, but I do end up indulging my inner fatty with some tasty Thanksgiving Day fare. If you are an observant follower of my blog, right now you’re thinking, “WHOAH!!! Has Jillian fallen into some sort of bizarro universe where her front door is on the other side of the room and her walls are now a delightful golden yellow and she no longer has those ugly “Tree of Life” curtains that looked really great in World Market but just don’t work in real…
