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Lab Coat Upcycled Into A Dress

An old and abused lab coat is given a new life!

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/lab-coat-upcycled-into-a-dress • Posted by ZanyDays

I bought some fabric to make a dress, but I wanted to do a test run just to make sure I knew what I was doing before I began cutting up the expensive stuff. I had a few old lab coats hanging around the house from work. so I used one for the fabric. The fabric is stiff and rigid, but I'm not disappointed with the outcome. The dress I'm making after this will look and feel worlds different. I rather like the novelty of this lab coat dress =) I used the video linked to for the guide to a fitted bodice. I used my own duct tape dress form to fit it to my body. This dress took about a day to finish, with some minor adjustments taking up a couple of hours of that time.

You will need

Project Budget
Free

Time

8 h 00

Difficulty

So-so
Medium labcoatdressfront3 Medium labcoatdressfront Medium labcoatdressbodice

Description

I bought some fabric to make a dress, but I wanted to do a test run just to make sure I knew what I was doing before I began cutting up the expensive stuff. I had a few old lab coats hanging around the house from work. so I used one for the fabric. The fabric is stiff and rigid, but I'm not disappointed with the outcome. The dress I'm making after this will look and feel worlds different. I rather like the novelty of this lab coat dress =) I used the video linked to for the guide to a fitted bodice. I used my own duct tape dress form to fit it to my body. This dress took about a day to finish, with some minor adjustments taking up a couple of hours of that time.

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