F for Fashion reconstruction #2

Since my successful first fashion reconstruction project, I have become more excited to transform old clothes into new ones, especially little black dresses into long gowns because lately, I very much prefer wearing long dresses.


Also most of the time whenever I bought new dresses, I had to alter them to fit my body shape.


Since I no longer wear all my short dresses, I decided to transform them into long dresses and gowns so that I can start wearing if the occasions call for them.


So, for this fashion reconstruction project, I have chosen to transform a hipster dress made from T-shirt material my sister gave me that made my hips looked bigger than they should, into a pretty long dress for me to wear on my casual and less formal outings.

My idea was to separate the hipster dress so that I could wear the top with a pair of pants or jeans and the skirt part could then form part of the new dress.


Also, since I wanted my new dress to have long sleeves, my sister suggested a couple of T-shirts she no longer wears, for the top. I tried both and decided on the one with longer sleeves.


Since the total length of the hipster skirt and T-shirt was insufficient to make a long dress, my sister looked through her collection of materials and found a suitable piece of remnant that would complete the ensemble, which was also made from T-shirt material.

Once we've got all the materials we wanted, I started by removing the hemstitches on both the hipster dress and the T-shirt. Once this part was done, my sister made minor adjustments to the remnant so that they would all fit nicely together. I then joined the pieces together for my sister to sew.


This project took my sister and I, a little longer to complete than anticipated because of a minor glitch. We were so happy to complete the dress in just a couple of days.


However, when it was time for a fitting, I discovered that the sleeves were shorter than what we expected!


Simultaneously, we burst out laughing because I took the wrong T-shirt for the top ~ I joined the T-shirt with shorter sleeves instead. Aiyah!


Anyway, being the expert unpicker that I am, I quickly removed the stitches and fixed the right T-shirt so that my sister could perform her magic on her sewing machine once again. And in no time at all, my new dress was completed.


I tried on the new dress and like magic, it fitted like a glove, but realised that it still lacked the shine of a new item.


So, for the final touches, I decided to enhance the new dress by adding some embellishments which I have saved when I discarded my worn-out pair of slippers.


And the final result is simply awesome! Even my sister was envious 😁

And the hipster dress became a top that looks more appealing with a pair of pants or jeans. Talk about killing two birds with one stone!

All's well that ends well... Yaye!

Thanks again to my masterful sister for yet another successful reconstruction project.


Who could tell that this was a cut-and-paste project, if I had not disclosed the facts?


I can proudly say that you cannot find this item anywhere. 💃🐒👌🙋