I bought this shift dress from a charity shop for £5 knowing it wouldn’t fit me. Normally the dresses I get from charity shops are huge so I know I can adjust them but this is a size 10, meaning I can get into it but it’s really tight around my lower half and a bit too big around my top half.
Basically, shift dresses were designed to look horrific on me. So I cut the bottom off to make a cute spring top. Continue reading
Continuing my steampunk outfit for an upcoming steampunk themed event I move onto the last major piece; my shirt.
I just copied an existing shirt I have but made the sleeves much longer and wider. I put elastic in the wrists of the sleeves and they poke out the ends of my jacket. I made the shirt quite loose and sewed it together so I could avoid the dreaded button hole situation! I did add darts in the back and front to give a little shape.
The result was quite a plain shirt, and also quite see-through so I added a fancy frill to the collar. For this all I did was take some rectangles of fabric and sewed a loose row of stitches then pulled one of the threads to scrunch it all up. I did four of those to create a neck piece. And that’s it. 🙂
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