The Tangerine Dream Dress

Drab to fab in less than an hour!

Posted by Confessions of a Refashionista

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Check out how I transformed that lovely 1950′s lace number from frumpy to fantabulous!

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You Will Need (1 thing)

  • Vintage Dress

Steps (7 steps, 45 minutes)

  1. 1

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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    sliced off the excess fabric & chopped the length

  6. 6

    created some sleeves from that chopped length & hemmed the bottom

  7. 7

    and my smashing tangerine dress is now fit for flaunting!