Refashion Runway Week 4: A Summer Dress

It’s the last week of Refashion Runway, and somehow I made it to the end! This weeks challenge was a summer dress, and, anyone who has seen my blog probably realizes that dresses are my favorite thing to wear..

I took to a local thrift shop to find a dress to refashion for this project and I came across this Coldwater Creek dress (with the tags STILL on it – $69.00 – I got it for $3.99!).  I’ll admit, I usually play it safe with dresses I refashion (choosing ones that are somewhat close to my size), so at a size 18 this would be the biggest refashion I have ever tackled., but the color was so perfect I couldn’t pass it up…

What I did:
Took it in in the back and on the sides
Added darts to the bust
Shortened it.

At this point it was cute – but still kind of plain. So I dug up a skirt I wanted to refashion and cut the bottom off of it.

I used the fabric from the skirt to:
Cover the buttons
Add trim to the bottom

The dress still didn’t scream summer, so I added a cute heart cutout in the back and also lined it with the floral fabric from the skirt!

The after pictures were taken at the Park of Roses, we went hoping for a sunny day, but the weather did not cooperate the entire time we were there (hence, the umbrella)..

Dress: Thrifted // Belt: Vintage // Shoes: UrbanOG // Umbrella: Tigertree

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