I mentioned making Rora several tops for her birthday. I loved the shirt dresses I made for her, and she practically spent her whole summer in them, but they're too small now, they're not great for fall/winter fashion, and Rora's getting a little too tall to be able to make new ones from a men's shirt because I can't make them long enough.
So here's my compromise:
I used the pattern I had made from Dana's Men's Shirt Dresses, except I narrowed the bottom, and made it shorter so that it was a long top instead of a dress.
I eliminated the contrasting waistband and instead used two loops and a thin tie for the middle.
**Tip: If I've learned anything from making Dana's Shirt Dresses and these new Men's Shirt Tops, it's that you want to pick out shirts with some kind of pattern or texture. Plain, one-colored shirts look pretty flat when compared to a shirt with plaids, stripes, or some kind of texture (like a red-on-red pin stripe.) Remember that you are making this for a little girl, not your husband, so sometimes the most ridiculous looking men's dress shirts make the cutest little girl tops/dresses.**
Disclaimer: It was windy the day we took the pictures of this shirt, so please excuse the weird faces,
the flyaway hair,
and the apparent frustration!
3 comments:
I still can't believe you made that. Oh wait...yes I can. I am jealous!!
Precious
Wow, that looks awesome. Very impressive! What a cutie pie! :)
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