Vintage Refashion

It has been awhile since I did any updates on this. I've been busy with Spring Cleaning, if you can call it that. I've been trying to Spring Clean for years now. It seems never ending. I'm constantly looking online for motivation on organization and I find a lot of tips, but leave it to me to not utilize these tips! 

Anyway, I posted on Facebook a few days ago on this dress that I bought. It's vintage and absolutely hideous! HA! But I love to buy hideous dresses and refashion them to something "wearable". So for awhile now, I've just been collecting a bunch of vintage dresses and are slowly refashioning them. I've also got a collection of vintage rings that I've redone and also have a collection of vintage purses. When I've got a collection, I will open shop! 

Here is a sample of one of my dresses. I offer no tutorials because: 1.) I don't even know how I do these. I just go with the flow and whatever pops into my head at that moment. 2.) I'm a horrible teacher. If you ask me how I do things, I can just tell you that I just go with it. So I'm sorry. :( 

I've gotten some great tips from friends on how I can "reconstruct" this dress. And thank you, friends! I've added some of their tips to it as well. Anyway, I wanted to keep it simple and sophisticated. I added pleats to the front. So here it is! 

Here is a close up of the pattern. I'm in love with the pattern. 

This was a fun refashion!