How to alter the dress

Surely in your closet there is a dress that has become great. Perhaps you are not satisfied with the length or style. This article provides recommendations that will help give the old dasch second breathing. And thanks to your attached to the effort and the embodiment of designer ideas, it will turn into a beautiful and stylish thing.

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Materials and tools

To work, you will need:

sewing machine and set of needles for sewing;
scissors;
tape measure;
set pin and needles;
threads in the tone of the material;
iron;
chalk;
decorative braid or lace.

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Possible options

So let's consider several options and how to act in each case. From the length and volume of the old dresses will depend on the view in the future it will receive the stirred.

First option

The dress was great to you, the length of the heater - to the middle of the caviar, long sleeve, the silhouette is fitted. In this model, we are rooting the hem of dresses, having a waist and cut the sleeve for a length of three quarters. The alternateness of work is as follows:

Spread the dress on a flat surface, if necessary, bend.
Obtaining a centimeter line of breast volume, waist and hips, mark chalk on the wrong side of the dress, how much to be sewn.
On the sleeves, mark the length of three quarters and cut them.
Decide with the length of the hem, mark the chalk and cut.
Now step lateral seams on the line you noted.
Treat the sleeves by wrapping the slice line by 1 cm, start and overcome 1 cm again and place it.
Having turned the hem of dresses for 1 cm, thoroughly join the iron, over again 1 cm 1 cm and swing the secret stitch or step on the typewriter.

If the dress is stitched from a monophonic fabric, it can be decorated at the bottom of the sleeve and the hem with an embroidered tape or lace. To do this, it is necessary to measure the length of the circumference of the lower part of the sleeve and the hem, thus determine how much decorative finishes need, sew with neat stitches with a needle or strain the typewriter.

Second option

The dress model is as follows: the top of the attacked, the sleeve is short, the Tatyanka skirt, the older length, the neck is made by a boat. So, here we are a hem dresses with drying arc, in front of the length of the knee. The remaining details will not change. Perform in such a sequence:

Spread the dress, take the iron and swallow well the hem.
Fold the dress in half along the front.
Decide where you will cut the arc.
Spread on a flat surface and cut the front of the skirt, about 40 cm from the hem.
Sut a little to achieve the desired length and do not cut too much. Check the length, putting the dress on yourself.
Cutting, turn the heated heap by 0.5 cm, join and then turning to 1 cm, lay and smash. The updated dress looks very effectively and advantageously emphasizes the beauty of the legs.

Third option

Dress with a waist, length below the knee is 15 cm. From the volana we will make a fashionable basket and short length. We act as follows:

We excite the waist and cut off the hem to the desired length.
Carefully flying the hem and wait.
The bottom of the dress is 1 cm, then you need to swallow, to get it out again and strain the typewriter.
From the volana on top of the skirt, make a second layer.
Connect the main part with extra, fixing with needles.
Lightly shifted, treat sections and set to the typewriter.

Dress with basque ready. This model will advantageously emphasize the figure.