No Sew Dress Refashion

I've spent the past few days visiting my parents (hence the poor quality iPhone pictures in this post), and as usual my mum had a bag of goodies waiting for me.  It was actually pretty handy, because I packed in a rush and realised once I got here that I didn't really have anything suitable to wear.

So I grabbed this dress from mums bag of hand-me-downs and embarked on a no sew refashion. The dress is beautifully made, but felt too conservative. And that elastic waist band would drive me mad. 

So I borrowed a seam ripper from my mum, turned the dress inside out and carefully unpicked a bit of the waist band so I could remove the elastic. 

The next bit I wanted to change was the neckline as it just didn't feel like my style. 

The back had this little cutout with a button to fasten it. 

So I popped the dress on back to front and folded those edges inward to create a v-neck.

Then I raided my trendy mums wardrobe to accessorise my 'new' dress.

I added an orange beaded necklace, a tan plaited leather belt, and these beautiful orange and tan sandals. 

It still feels a bit more formal than my usual style, but I still think it's rather nice. (And I have no idea why I have this 'sticky-outy' bit going on with my hair).

It's a shame I can't keep the accessories too ;-)

And because I'm still at my parents and doing this post from my phone and I don't know how to do a side-by-side before and after shot on it. Here is the before shot again, just in case you forgot what it looked like before.