Dress dyeing

Peach Lace Dress

The Gone With the Wind-ish dress was the highest voted piece and I couldn't wait to get started on it! Vintage Dress - holiday party

Peach just isn't my color. It totally washes me out, so the first thing that I was excited to do was change the shade!

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There are some other issues we'll have to handle as well...

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...but color changing was first up on the agenda. Making the lace work was a close second :)

What color would you have picked?? I went with...

PURPLE!!

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I washed. I dried. I turned the dress purple.

Next up was fixing the neckline. The lace was SO big because the elastic that used to hold it in place had worn out. I decided to replace the elastic to keep the essence of the original dress. Nothing like a lace-dripped neckline!

I took my seam ripper and opened up a few stitches at the lacy neckline, pulled out the old elastic, added the new elastic with a safety pin, and fit it to my liking.

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I pinned the edges of the elastic to each side of the dress to prep for sewing it in place.

I removed the bow that was in the center of the dress because I knew that I was most definitely not going to make a bow with it.

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After the ribbon removal, it was time to adjust the length. I wanted to get rid of the crazy ruffles at the bottom of the piece, so I cut it off!

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Lots of leftovers to be played with down the road...

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I trimmed the lining next...

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...and then sewed everything in place - a new hem and the new elastic at the neck.

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For just a little piece of flair, because I removed the ribbon that once was stitched in this place, I added a little patch with a safety pin.

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This patch came from one of my dresses I wore at South by Southwest two years ago.

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I really saved the leftovers! (Click here for a little flashback posting!)

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With my dress completed, it was time to hit the holiday party circuit!

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My birthday twin, LC, hosted the loveliest of holiday parties complete with a taco truck!

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It's the best when friends come in from other states to ring in the holidays!!

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It was cold for Los Angeles, so there was definitely jacket action happening. I just took my coat off for a few photo ops, including this one that makes me feel like I should be in the Blair Witch Project.

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The rest of the outdoor pics turned out much nicer. AKA, less Marisa-disturbing-face.

JS kept calling his sweater the "Andie" as it was literally the same sweater that Anne Hathaway gets called out for wearing in The Devil Wears Prada.

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I mean...

Devil Wears Prada - Andie Sweater

We couldn't stop laughing about it!!

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Such a fun night to celebrate the holidays with some of my favorite people.

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More holiday ensembles to come this week... Stay tuned!!!