About a month ago I saw an inspiration dress made by Sutton Grace here that she copied from a dress on Shabby Apple’s web shop here. I thought it was a cute dress, and I have been designing and developing a remake dress of my own, pulling from pieces I already have. Here’s what I started with: A shirt donated by my friend, Lana, and a gray and black remnant of fabric (leftover from a curtain I made in January). I usually “dress” my just-my-size mannequin to help my visualize the end result better:I cut the bottom off the shirt, added a black band, and gathered the gray skirt and it looked like this:
Unfortunately I tried it on, and my husband said, “you kinda look like a teacher or schoolgirl in a uniform”…so more altering needed to take place. I then decided to make it look more like the Shabby Apple inspiration dress, and so I cut off the previous collar and decided to do a scoop neck: