Flip This Dress: Minty Vintage

Happy Monday!


It is cold.  It is rainy.  It is gloomy.  My train was cancelled this morning.

BUT, it is Chinese New Year and I only got a ten emails in my work inbox this morning, so I'm feelin' fine.   And I also was super productive this weekend:

Before:

After:

So clearly I did a total overhaul on this dress.  I just loved the color and texture of it so much.  Mint is totally trending people.  

I removed the sleeves, and cut the dress in half basically, then took out the old crummy zipper.  I added some darts in front, and taking the bottom part of the dress, added a little peplum bottom with some pleats and vents at the sides and back. I had to take in the sides a little bit, and then also had to add a new zipper (which brings me to no zippers in my stock so I will have to venture out in the rain today to replenish - there is nothing worse than being at the end of a project and coming up zipper-less).

The finishing touch was taking in the shoulder width a bit so it didn't cut my arms off in a strange way, and adding black bias tape to trim them.  It came out so super cute, don't you think?  If you are interested, she's over in the Shop...