35 Days to Go: $1 Remake

I found a doozy, friends!! New Dress A Day - DIY - Vintage Dress - Before - 35

This dress was ruffle-y, from the 80s/early 90s brand All That Jazz, and patterned like crazy!!

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I did like all the ruffles going on, however it was a bit too much with the black/lavender/beige/white pattern that felt a bit jungle-ish.

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I like the bones of the dress and think it can be brought out of the early 90s, because right now I'm still hearing Hootie and the Blowfish in the background :)

I began with my scissors and got cutting!!

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I want to make this two pieces - I'm going to use the top part today, so I trimmed the piece in two, following the seam below the top ruffle.  Post-trim, I had all this leftover...

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...but will be reusing soon!  The top was separated...

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...and next came the removal of the big shoulder pads!  I took my seam ripper and began to cut those stitches keeping them attached!

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Later thick pads!!

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Once the pads were out, I put the top on and cinched the area right underneath each arm.  Basically I gathered a bit of the ruffle action and cinched it together to make the ruffle-ing more prominent at the shoulders instead of at the body.  I just used some safety pins so I can remove and play around with it differently next time!

I paired the top with a thick elastic belt, just to break up the pattern a bit and headed off for some sausages and beer to celebrate JMT's birthday!

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Oh, and there were pretzels too...

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...lots and lots of pretzels.

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Our server even gave us some to take home.

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I'm literally going to turn into a SuperPretzel by Friday.

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We had fun playing around with the beer steins and sampling each others sauerkraut and sausages!  (The wild boar was pretty delish!)

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Such a fun night to celebrate such a fun friend.

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PS, JMT was totally ringing in the new birth year in my favorite t-shirt...

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Love the girls!  Love my friends!  And cue the intro tune "Thank You For Being A Friend" now :)