A gorgeous fashionista walked up to me and said "I LOVE your outfit!" 
The thing that makes this story awesome is that everything I was wearing had been dug out of clearance sale racks and altered by yours truly. (Except for the denim jacket. It needed no alterations- it was awesome as is.)
This dress came out in the middle of Winter (cause that's when everyone wants to buy a light as air strappy dress, of course). I tried it on, but beautiful as it was on the hanger, it just did not hang well on a human figure. at all. so I passed.
A few months later when I was digging through the aforementioned clearance pile I decided to make peace with it's awkward draping and pay it's $10 ransom from sale hell.
It hung around for a few days until I woke up and decided that it was finally the day to wear it, so I put it on, and in what is probably the worst idea ever, started cutting first, and measuring none. I cut off the goofy gathered high collar, but kept the fluff of tulle and kind of rolled it down, till it was the same level as the underdress. Next, I put a couple of stitches in the side to make it fit a little better, and sewed the shoulder bows onto the straps. Snip snip snip and done.
add awesome denim jacket
mend the small rip in the super clearance tights
slip on some old cowboy boots
and you have the awesomest outfit ever
(Except maybe my gallery opening outfit, but believe me honey, I payed the piper for that piece of beauty.)
A few weeks later I wore it to a concert and when I was getting a record signed by the band Dawn Flippin Landes asked me where I found my dress!
Jiminy cricket, I never spent $12 on clothes better! 
The whole experience has encouraged me to make the alterations I've been thinking about on my other clothes.
Now my motto for all my ill fitting/ old/ paint smeared clothes =
cut it till you love it! __________________________post edit___________ new link alert in the Blogs I Actually Read list: rugged/refined -a style blog that's actually well written
1 comment:
Awesome! And with your eye and sense for style I definitely encourage you to alter your clothes and post your wonderful results!
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