Oscars 2014: Dallas Buyers Club

Oscar Week continues!! Day 3: Dallas Buyers Club.

The Matthew McConaughey/Jared Leto pairing was the best.

Jared Leto's costumes were the best.

And let's be honest...Jared Leto's hair now, is the best.  It's like the perfect color and cut of my dreams.  Not joking.  Totally serious.  I want Jordan Catalano's hair.  (MSCL reference, aka, Marisa's high school journal played out on TV.)

OK, now I found an amazing hand embroidered robe that I was going to use to match more of his look, however when I found this piece...

It's screamed Dallas.

The brand is called Miss Rodeo USA...

...so I just had to.

First stop on this hoedown highway - Rhode DYE-land.  (Good one, right??)

Now little sidenote - I ultimately went with Navy dye but that was after a quick bath in Teal which left the piece too light for my taste.  I really wanted the trims to pop, so I redyed the piece with Navy and got this fabulous purple-ish shade.

I cut the piece in half...

...and then removed the arms.

I'm turning this into a fab little capelet to really feature all the busy lace/fringe/tulle/trim that was on the top of the shirt.

After years of wear and tear, the fringe strips got pretty worn out...

...so I decided to give the fringe a little hair cut, or fringe cut, to get rid of the split ends!!  With my rotary trimmer and mat, it was an easy tweak to snip the fringe evenly.  I cut about half off to make the fringe look less tangled plus I wanted to not make it so overwhelmingly in your face.  I mean that fringe was IN YO FACE!

Now the final piece to this refashioning puzzle!!  I removed the stitched keeping the collar in place...

...removed it completely...

...and restitched the seam closed.  Ready to see what that original shirt became???

Capelet City!!!

I paired the new accessory with a purple vintage dress, a pair of copper Steve Madden pumps, my fave Forever 21 sunnies, and a rhinestoned purse that I made! (DIY to come...)

A removable piece of flair?? Check and check.

I kept three buttons on the piece...

...however I think I like them open.

You can take the country western shirt out of Texas but you can't take Texas out of the country western shirt :)

It's totally chic now - I'm in love!!

More Oscar Week to come!  Check back later today for a red carpet giveaway of glam proportions!!

Oscars 2014: The Wolf of Wall Street

Oscar Week continues!! Day 2: The Wolf of Wall Street

What a frenetic blast this one was!! I mean get a load of this mug...

While I was out thrifting, I found the perfect piece...

Hello $2 Ralph Lauren Polo!!!

Paired with some khaki cords, my Jordan Belfort-wannabe outfit is complete.

This was one of my favorite scenes in the movie. You know, just drinking red wine on my yacht during the day, meeting with cops, making it rain...

I opted for a clearer beverage in m'glass.

I think this is just might be a Halloween option, come October!

More Oscar Week outfits to come...

Oscars 2014: Blue Jasmine

Let Oscar Week begin!! This is one of my favorite times of the year - the Oscars are a week away (yippee for fun red carpets!!) - and I'm super close to seeing everything nominated. (Yeah, total tradition since college...friends and I all try to cram everything in so we're fully prepared to fill out an Oscar ballot to win $$$!)

To celebrate, I'm going to craft a week's worth of Oscar-themed outfits from some of the nominated films. A little countdown to Sunday eve's festivities, if you will :) To kick off the week, we're starting with Blue Jasmine. Cate Blanchett is SO good in this and really anything that Louis CK does, I'm 100% on board with.

I went completely literal with this one, friends!!

How 'bout this royal blue dress with INSANE shoulder pads...`

...and this lace layer up top?

There is a bit of work that needs to get done to get this "wear in public ready"!!

In true Marisa form, I cut out the shoulder pads first!

These pads could have kept us all afloat, that's how foamy they were!

Next plan of attack was removing the sleeves.

My seam ripper went to town!!

With both sleeves removed...

...I got down to business.

My idea for this piece was to make the lace the lead character. It's hard to really even notice it because of the blue fabric background, so I decided to remove the background! I began to trim across the blue fabric, beneath the lace, and removed a rectangular piece that was lining the lace.

The top of the lace was now fully exposed!! How fab does it look on the white background?

I stitched the edges of the cut material as well as the area around the arms...

...before taking in the dress a few inches. I wanted to make it fit like a glove.

I pinned the area that needed to be taken in and also hiked up the dress a bit as well before sewing all parts in place.

I must say, I was expecting to like this dress but didn't realize that I would LOVE how it turned out.

It's the perfect cocktail dress! Those of your Instagrammers might have seen this teaser shot yesterday...

...however nobody guessed that the dress was royal blue! We got a few navys as well as Pantone's Color of the Year, radiant orchid, so there was a solid effort in that part of the color spectrum.

It's really amazing what one adjustment can make.

I wrapped up in my DIY indigo shawl (click here for the tutorial!) and vintage purse...

...while smelling the ridiculous jasmine wafting from the surrounding neighbors' plants. One of my favorite parts of LA is the abundance of jasmine and honeysuckle that make the air smell as delicious as Magnolia Bakery tastes.

This cobalt shade has jumped to my top five wearable colors as of late. The only thing that would have solidified an Oscar for this dress was if it had pockets. Next go, I'm adding those suckers!!

Stay tuned for more Oscar themed outfits this week!! They're making me wish it was Halloween this weekend too!