creation

I decided to clean my closet the other day so I can determine what exactly I needed for the upcoming winter season. While I was away from home for five years, things accumulated in my closet. I found a guitar in my closet. I don’t play the guitar, so someone must have put it in there while I was gone. There were couple other items that I did not remember storing there. I ended up with three big bags full of clothes that I did not wear anymore. One of them was this dress below.

If you call items from 90’s “vintage”, this long dress must be a vintage item.. It is from 90’s and made in America. I don’t remember how this ended up in my closet since I don’t remember wearing it, but I sew a redeemable value in this long dress.

So I cut it short, cut a stripe of the fabric so I can hem it with folded band to make a mini dress.
I also made a big and loose “V” neck in the back and added a bow.

Voila! This is how it turned out.
I like it a lot this way since it is super comfortable with leggings.

Or, I can wear it with a boyfriend blazor – which look do you like better?

So immediately after I came back from fabric shopping, I washed the fabric and cut the fabric to make a dress. Here is the result.

This is the same design as my Kirsten Dunst inspired dress, but for some reasons, it came out bigger than the last dress I made. I made two modifications to the dress.
1) No bow this time, because of the pattern, I thought it would be too much to add a bow..
2) Instead of gathering the skirt part, I added some pleats. Well, it did not gather, since the fabric is relatively thick. So I made a quick modification!

I belted it and threw a blazer on.
Also, I wore knee-high socks instead of tights today. I am still not sure if I like them or not, I am afraid that I kind of look like an amine character?! You know, sailor moon is always wearing knee-high socks… At least they are comfortable relatively. I detest over-the-knee boots, and so sad they are in this winter, but I am okay with knee-high socks!

It has been raining for days now, and they say typhoons are coming on Thursday. I want to see the Sun! I feel down when the weather is bad. Although, the weather here is much milder than the one in Philly, so I shouldn’t complain much.

By the way, I made Thai red curry yesterday with the instant soup mix my sister got from Thailand. Since both my husband and I like spicy food, I added three extra dried hot peppers for extra spiciness. and, I must have forgotten to wash my hands and touched my eyes, my eyes burnt so badly. It was like someone sprayed pepper spray on me. I thought I would go blind. That was very scary!