Do you ever make something that comes out exactly as planned but just isn’t your style at all?
Such was the case with that beauteous boho dress – a fabulous refashioned result that I’ll never feel comfortable wearing.
Pick some ingredients that are actually your style and create one for yourself in under an hour:
I chose a dowdy, oversized top & floaty layered skirt – neither of which I would ever have worn separately but thought would improve immensely if put together.
The dull top was definitely enhanced by a bath in forest green dye!
I simply popped the top over the skirt with right sides facing and elastic waists lined up
zigzagged them together just below that elastic hem
and trimmed off the excess bits
et voila! An easy gathered waist!
As always, I zigzagged over that outside seam for extra strength.
And then tried it on only to realize that the darn floaty thing didn’t suit my hourglass frame in the least – harumph!
Although you don’t care for the look, I think that the dress looks adorable on you and I love the way that you styled it with the boots and the bag 🙂
Cheers my dear! The whole outfit is refashioned 😉 Here’s the boot tute: https://awesomesauceasshattery.com/2014/12/09/crochet-embellished-boot-refashion/ and the bag DIY is coming soon!
The bottom part I love +++. It’s that big mama top that is not flattering the skirt. It’s great you share the failures too. I like that as it’s what happens in the real world of refash.
The dress itself is fabulous and came out exactly as I had imagined. It would look pretty darn groovy on someone either more or less curvy that I – bigger boobs and hips would fill it out to create a lovely hourglass shape and smaller boobs and hips would create a loose & breezy flowerchild look. As my figure is somewhere in the middle the dress just doesn’t flatter me at all.
Ha! Glad that happens to other people too – that moment of ‘er, why did I make this exactly?!’.
That said, I think the new outfit looks fine! I especially like that new green colour and how the stitching turned out contrast.
Dye is never a bad idea when it comes to dowdy garments and has saved the day with soooo many of my refashions!