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Drab to fab in less than an hour!
Check out how I transformed that lovely 1950′s lace number from frumpy to fantabulous!

Posted by Confessions of a Refashionista from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Published See Confessions of a Refashionista's 70 projects »
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  • How to make a shift dress. The Tangerine Dream Dress - Step 1
    Step 1

    Totally not feeling the ill-fitting, scratchy-lined before of the dress, so…

  • How to make a shift dress. The Tangerine Dream Dress - Step 2
    Step 2

    I carefully removed the itchy lining (it looks deceivingly satiny soft in the photo but felt like a pot-scourer against my skin, yuck!), the broken zipper and an extremely old dry cleaning tag

  • How to make a shift dress. The Tangerine Dream Dress - Step 3
    Step 3

    grabbed another fab vintage dress that fits me well, placed it on top & used it as a guide to pin in the sides of the lace dress

  • How to make a shift dress. The Tangerine Dream Dress - Step 4
    Step 4

    stitched along the pins to take in the width of the dress

  • How to make a shift dress. The Tangerine Dream Dress - Step 5
    Step 5

    sliced off the excess fabric & chopped the length

  • How to make a shift dress. The Tangerine Dream Dress - Step 6
    Step 6

    created some sleeves from that chopped length & hemmed the bottom

  • How to make a shift dress. The Tangerine Dream Dress - Step 7
    Step 7

    and my smashing tangerine dress is now fit for flaunting!

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