When I found these tees for $1 at one of my fave thrift stores, I was QUITE excited!
Some of you know what this image is from.
It’s Charlie the Unicorn! His two wiley companions want him to join them on a trip to Candy Mountain! If you haven’t seen the viral youtube video (one of my faves), you really should. It’s okay. I can wait.
Ah! Don’t you feel better now? And have you learned a valuable lesson about succumbing to peer pressure? 🙂
Anywho…
I don’t really need any more T-shirts. I have plenty. BUT, I’ve wanted a few more T-shirt dresses lately, and that’s just what these two tees are about to become!
First, I laid the two tees inside-out with the Charlie tee on top, like so:
This is about how long I’ll want my dress to be. Then, I grabbed my favorite T-shirt dress and placed it on top of the two tees.
I dug out my tailor’s chalk…
…and traced the dress on the two tees! You can see I’m making my new dress longer than my original dress.
I cut off the top of the black tee and along the chalk line. Then, I pinned the black parts to the Charlie tee!
I stitched the black part onto the Charlie parts.
Okay! So now I’ve got the right length, but what about those sides? They’re still wide open!
First, I pinned my newly-fitted sides together, then I stitched those up as well!
Since the bottom of the black shirt is now the bottom of the dress, I didn’t have to worry about a hem, as there was already one there!
I wore my comfy new dress over to my fella’s place where we struggled to find good lighting for an “after” pic.
This is what I had to settle for. :/
While Dan lovingly cooked us a tasty dinner, I sent a few final emails for my ReFashion Show (pics coming with next post!) and finished up a couple of articles for publications I write for (If you’re living hand to mouth, it helps to be ambidextrous!).
Cheers!
AMAZING!!!
I could see several of these as summer staples, looks so comfy, you are a refashion genius………
Great idea! Love this dress! 🙂
~Jen
http://www.diaryofamadmama.wordpress.com
This post SOOO inspired me!! I went through my closet and found 2 stretchy shirts (of similar content and same care instructions) – 1 that I love but was a smidge too short and the other I had never worn. I cut the never worn shirt into a skirt and sewed the 2 together to make a dress using your post as a guide!! I’m so pleased with the way it turned out, so THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!! (If I had taken before pics, I would have sent you a before/after… but I never thought mine would actually be cute!) Now, I’m hooked, I’ve gotta do it again!!
Awesome! Send me a pic, so I can see! Glad your refash was such a success! 🙂
Too cute! And I love Charlie the Unicorn!
wow this turned out much better than I was expecting!! Also–your hair looks AMAZING in that “after” shot close-up. It’s the best I’ve ever seen it look, no offense 🙂 You actually have me thinking about a tee-shirt dress, but I always have such a hard time working with tee-shirt jersey fabric. Do you find it difficult?
I’m soo jealous! That shirt is cool, and I love the dress!
Really love this!
This is a great idea. I think you just inspired me to give new life to some of my tees. <3
freaking love it
I’ve read ReFashionista for quite a while and I wanted to share that this is my favorite post so far! Thanks for all the inspiration 🙂
Thank you! I’m so glad you like!
Wow! Fantastic. I really wasn’t sure what a tee shirt dress was. It turned out smashing! I love it. Well Done.
Love this! (although I didn’t watch the video..too much weird at work to see some at home). I found you a few months ago and viewed all your posts in order. Now I feel like I know you. Great post!
Thanks! It IS definitely strange, so I totally understand! 🙂 I’m glad you like my blog and managed to slog through the whole thing! Thanks! 🙂
Simply Awesome! Great job!
Thank ya kindly!
Super cute! Another great job, great tutorial and big fun photo shoot!
Love it!! I can’t wait to see what you create next!
So simple. So cute!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve never seen that before, pretty hilarious! Cute dress
That was meant to be BTW
I can’t tell you how much I love this dress!!! You are looking fabulous, STW. Your hair is killer xx
Charlie parts. You’re standing on the Urination Station. Yikes!
First the bad news: I never want to see another Charley goes to candy mountain episode again. But just consider the source, I’m 52, I haven’t wanted to go to candy mountain for years. The good news, I think you are some kind of mad genious! A+++ on your tshirt dress. And I loved the chaulk board bathroom, more genious. But I’ve saved the best for last. Love, love, loved the photo of you standing on the toilet Made me laugh. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.
I love the bathroom! They have chalkboard paint in the bathrooms in bar up here, best night ever! Haha, the t-shirt dress looks awesome and I do appreciate a good Charlie reference.
Oh my – comfy t-shirt dress! Oh my – Charlie the Unicorn! OH MY – TRIPEL KARMELET!
You have some truly rocking taste lady.
I’m in love with that bathroom and the new idea for some of my boyfriend’s old shirts
Long live Charlie the Unicorn! Love your dress, want to have one as well!!!
Oh my gosh, a chalk painted bathroom… genius! Dinner looked amazing! Oh yeah, and I really like how the t shirt dress turned out, it looked super comfy!
You have made some pretty awesome refashions…but this just strikes me as super-duper-awesome! Way to go! Love this and it looks SO COMFY! 🙂
Cute – and I bet it’s super comfy!
Love it!
Clever idea….I’m off tee hunting…
Love this! It looks great on you.
Love it fun fun!
Perfect! I love the last pic in front of the chalkboard-it suits the overall palette of the dress =D
It’s a magical leoplurodon!
I totally just “squeeed” seeing the Charlie the Unicorn shit. I MUST HAVE ONE!
Awesome look 🙂
I love this! As t-shirts they weren’t so fabulous but I absolutely love this dress!
Love both the dress AND the bathroom!
Love this!
That dress is really cute and super easy, too!! I’m totally feeling the chalkboard bathroom – super cool.
This is awesome! And I L-O-V-E the bathroom!!!
Adorable! Love this one a lot. And your gent must be quite…ah…interesting!
Fun! 🙂
“Official Urination Station” *dead*
This dress is on my ‘Official’ list of things to try. 😀
That! is a winner!
What the heck did I just watch? 🙁 Poor Charlie. Now I’m going to have nightmares. Get it? Night-MARES! …nevermind… Love the refash though! 🙂
Very awesome. I didn’t like the unicorn Tee but after what you did, it looks fabulous, especially on you. Love it! Good job
That has to be one of my most favorite refashions of all!! I have tees screaming to be refashed into dresses!!! 🙂
Super fun and cute!!!…I want a chalk bathroom 🙂
i seriously laid in bed last night dreaming up a t-shirt dress. THANK YOU.
Such wonderful and inspirational post. Love this idea.
This is great! I have tons of old t-shirts I could use to make a dress. And Charlie the Unicorn is awesome.
Amanda @ Running In Heels
amandarollo.blogspot.com
This dress is so cute! I love what you did with it 🙂
The stripes really suit your skinny figure and give you some gorgeous curves! That bathroom is amazeballs!! If I did that the kids would spend most of their time drawing on the walls which I try not to let them do (defeating the object!)
I have now joined the refashion co op finally!
Check out my blog as I am going to be blogging about some seriously crazy refashions this week since its only three week to my sisters wedding I need a kick up the back side! I’m making my dress and my eldest daughters dress from old dresses. I couldn’t persuade David to wear a refashioned suit though!
http://www.angelfairydust.blogspot.com
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tooooooo CUTE!!!!
This is one of my favorites!
Love the bathroom!!! (Great idea!) and the dress is cute too! 😉
I feel like you totally stole my “2 Cowls to 1 Dress” post (if I actually thought you read my blog).
Nice job!
Awesome job! It turned out super well!
I think this is my favorite refashion…EVER!!! I have a few concert t-shirts that I would love to make into a dress. Thanks for this idea!!!
Love this refash! One of my very favorites to date!
The chalkboard bathroom is like icing on the cake to your awesome Charlie the Unicorn tshirt dress!!
This is definitely one of my favorites! Too cute – love the stripes.
That turned out ridiculously cute. And what an odd, wonderful bathroom..
Cara
http://www.knockoffcrafts.wordpress.com
nice! one of my favorites…
i love it!
Genius! They work very well together. I’ll have to remember this in case I spot a couple of nice t-shirts.
Excellent work!
adorable! i love this combo : )
Love your t-shirt to dress idea. I might have to give it a try. And the bathroom is pretty cool. At least he has toilet paper.