Making a little girl's dress out of Daddy's old button down shirt is nothing new. Although this dress is, in fact, a little girl's shirt. Because the dress looked like a nightgown. And nightgown chic is not something we're ready to attempt.
Depending on the angle and light, from a distance this shirt looks blue, or white, or pinstriped, but up close it has a really neat woven texture with shiny white, pale blue, and also charcoal threads in it.
I didn't realize how long this shirt had been kicking around until I cut the button placket off and found where my husband's mom had written his name. HA!!! That dates this shirt back to at least 1999. I thought about trying to work in the name somewhere, but then I started to feel a little embarrassed that I still had a shirt that probably hasn't seen any action in at least ten years sitting around. But then I just told all of you about it so I guess I'm not THAT embarrassed after all.
The pattern is self drafted. It's actually a hack of a pattern of my own. The original, which I haven't really shown here yet, is a full front piece with one button at the center of the low back. I modified it so that the low back is one piece and the front is two with the button placket down the middle.
The sleeves turned out a bit Anne Shirley but the full skirt (I used the entire width of the original shirt) balances them out in a nice way. I used the original cuffs, too. Kept the height and shortened the length (Is that right? I moved the button in but kept the wrist to elbow length - if that makes more sense.).
Now I'm off to tackle a long awaited (on their part) and dreaded (on mine) glitter project. Glitter is my frenemy, but I can hold her off no longer. Wish me luck and a quick clean up.
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