If You Don't Trust Strapless Dresses

by Chickie W.U.

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Hello Readers. I love clothes and dressing up but I don't love strapless dress. They are fine but I don't love them. What if it slips??? I did love this yellow dress. I thought I could wear it and add some kind of cover at my shoulders in some way. It would be like strapless but not really strapless.

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Before and after.

I found this yellow floral dress at a clothes swap. It was a fun yellow color and the floral print was so pretty. It was too long though. I also did not like the strapless neckline. I could make straps but I had another idea.

I tried this peach sweater on top of the dress, but it didn't have the bright punch of color that I wanted.

This yellow dress had multiple colors and

on of those colors was a pretty aquamarine color. Y'know, the same aqua marine that I just dyed this other dress. (That was a previous post.) I thought they would be great

together. This yellow dress was

also way too long on me so I would need to address that problem too.

decided to wear the dresses together. The yellow would peek out of the

aqua dress and it would be fabulous. I needed to shorten both dresses. I

wanted them to be the same length so I cut them together. I used a yard stick as

a guide. I stood the yard stick up and held it against the dresses on

my dress form. Your height will be different from mine but I wanted to

cut at the 14" mark. I cut around the dresses at the 14" mark (Moving the yard stick around the dresses as I cut around the hem.) and got

the length that I wanted.

I used my serger on the cut edge around the hemline to stop it from fraying.

I then turned the edge of the yellow dress under and iron ed it in place. Ironing it would make it easier to make a neat hem. And we all want a neat hem right?

I used my sewing machine to stitch the new hem in matching yellow thread. Matching the thread well makes the hem stitches blend in and become unnoticeable.

I liked the 2 dresses together. The bright aqua dress can be worn open and the yellow dress under it is a fun pop of contrasting color at the same time.

Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.

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