Dames dress refashion

At the end of last year I found myself really behind on my panto sewing, I won't go into details but it was an unavoidable money problem that inevitably happens when a personal issue hits someone within a group.

Anyway, it did mean that around half the costumes didn't have the time given to them that I would want them to have and it was often a case of 'that will have to do!'

One of those costumes was this Dames dress:

which in my mind was only half finished.

I decided to get all the 'refashions' out of the way as soon as possible as you can probably tell from my previous posts!  This was the last one and needed the most work.

To start with I cut the over skirt into an asymetrical shape and then I sewed on a full circle underskirt of blue.  Then I added a piece of curtain net to the bottom and an apron type device over the top and to the sides (It's really difficult to explain but easy to look at the picture)

Finally I ruched the sleeves and added some net to the ends and elastic to the cuffs.

The end result has more shape and poofiness all round which is more how I imagined it in the first place.

So now thats finished it can go out to the caravan, providing I have a caravan tomorrow as the wind has already blown away one of the stables in the field next to my house so who knows if it will last the night!

I also made a nifty mop cap for which I have made a tutorial, It's useful having a camera around when you're making something I have decided!