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Remake: White Polyester Peplum Dress

It's time for this white, polyester, peplum dress to get made over! New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

Love the peplum. Don't love the spots.

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

Don't love any of those spots...

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

Oh, the spots are everywhere!! There's lots of work to get done!!

I began with some dye. The only way to try to help hide these spots is coating them with some good old dye! I picked a green/blue medley that was polyester friendly...

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...and tossed everything into the washing machine. Post-wash, my dress was a gorgeous seafoam green! The super dark spots didn't go anywhere, so I trimmed the bottom portion of the dress short.

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

There was a fabulously large spot on the peplum, so...

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

...I began to trim right above it, all the way around.

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

Honestly, that was all I did to turn that white dress into this...

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

I am OBSESSED with how the sparkly area turned out. It was a bluish shade that was the perfect complement to the seafoam green.

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

It's always so cool to see how different fabrics dye!

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

I paired my new top with a Jenni Kayne skirt and a pair of Old Navy leopard flats...

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

...and my favorite pair of Forever 21 shades!

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

There's nothing like some weekend sidewalk dancing.

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

Even though it's technically fall now...

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

...it still feels like summer.

Quick dye fix turned chic new top!

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

Highly obsessed with this look...

New Dress A Day - vintage white polyester dress

...but there's always room for another one! Stay tuned!

Creativebug Class - DYE Party (& win a free membership!)

I was lucky enough to get invited to create some videos of my own with Creativebug (my first class about muumuus is already up and running) and my second class launches today. Guess what it's all about???? DYEING!!!

CREATIVEBUG DYE Class - Learn to dye!

I'm always getting such amazing questions from you guys about how to dye, proper techniques, etc., so we came up with a one-stop-shop for all things dye related.

CREATIVEBUG DYE Class - Learn to dye!

We played with polyester specific dyes as well as basic fabric dye and dyed an assortment of fabrics to show you how each specific piece takes to the color. You can see in the above shot that we had a ton of fun with blues and purples :) The reveals are the best!

I’m also giving away two more free three-month memberships (yay!!), so leave a comment below mentioning the class you'd love to try out, to enter! You’ll have projects galore to continue creating this summer and will be blown away by all the cool classes on the site. I can't stop going through them myself. There's a glitter 101 class (obsessed) as well as crochet classes that I need to start watching.

Also, to get 50% the first month’s subscription, use the code NDAD at checkout. Kind of a perfect way to see what Creativebug is all about…