Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Bridesmaid dress transformation done!

Finally got the chance to fit one of my bridesmaids into her dress to see what adjustments needed to be made.  Realized a couple things:

- skirt fit like a pencil skirt, therefore making it really difficult to walk freely or to bend over and pick anything up
- straps got in the way if you needed to put on the dress by stepping into it (couldn't put it over your head because the skirt was too small!)

Fix?  A slit in the back!  (Sorry, I forgot to take pictures of this).  But an easy fix that I totally didn't even think of until one of my bridesmaids suggested it.  Luckily, there was an existing seam right down the middle of the back of the dress that I was able to easily undo and rehem by hand.

Most of the kinks of the dress are worked out.  My last picky thing is that the front of the dress forms this kind of "pooch".  Darn that pooch!  So the girls will have to consistently pull down the skirt to make sure it's flat for photos or during the ceremony, etc. 

But I think for a $10 dress that turned into $28 after all the extra supplies still looks like a $100 dress to me.  I'm happy!


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