My latest love is buying cheap clothes and altering them just a bit to be more stylish or a better fit for me.
For example:
I bought this dress on sale at Target a few weeks ago from the girls department in a girls size X-large.
**Here's a hint, if you are a woman who typically buys sizes 2 or 4, you can sometimes fit into the little girls' extra large size clothes and save some money because the girl stuff is usually priced cheaper than grown-up stuff(I've done this at Old Navy, Gap, and Target).**
When I bought the dress I knew it would be shorter than I'd want to wear alone, but I thought maybe with leggings it would be cute, but when I tried it on I didn't love the way the top looked, so I cut it off just under the arm holes, straight across, leaving a band of knit to become the skirt waistband. Then I folded under the fabric to create a casing for elastic, sewed it, cut elastic to fit my waist, threaded it through using a safety pin to guide it through, sewed up the small hole left in the casing, and it was done! Seriously easy (even with beginner sewing abilities)!





great idea!
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job! I have to buy my clothes from the kids department too. Not complaining! You're right...cheaper!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing your project with us at Anything Related!
{Rebekah}