So, this is a vintage dress I got for Christmas from my mom. I have the coolest mom ever and she let me pick out a few vintage things on Etsy, and I spent a good 3 days searching all the possibilities and trying to narrow down my list to fit in the given budget. This dress, that I got from
vintagecarliss, was actually giant on me when I first put it on. During the search process I was checking measurements to make sure that what I was getting wouldn't be too small, but it never really crossed my mind that anything would be too big.
I've been meaning for a while to fix it up a bit, and finally I got around to it last night. My mom wasn't home so it was a bit scary because I've never tailored anything before and would have liked to ask her the best way to do it, but I decided it would be god for me to try and figure it out on my own. All in all, I think I did a pretty smashing job.
I cut about half of the sleeve off, and then took out a considerable amount from underneath the arm and sewed it back up before hemming the sleeve. I would have taken pictures but my camera (well, it's actually my dad's but it's vacationing with me) was at work. The pics above are courtesy of the awful webcam on my laptop.
And of course I had to take some off the bottom, as it was hitting me several inches below my knees. It ended up being a little shorter than I'm comfortable with, but I did it that way because I realized that it would be easiest to hem it along the line where an extra piece of fabric was already attached around the bottom (where the print ran sideways instead of vertical).
The official "before and after":
I just noticed that in the picture above it looks like the sleeves are different lengths, but the one sleeve must have bunched a bit because it definitely does not look like that in real life, I promise!
Hope you all are having a great day!
