I decided to take the plunge and sign up for the Treasure City Fashion Show again. I acquired a  sack of old house dresses from my co-worker (her chain smoking mother-in-law had recently passed away. I will explain about the cleaning process some other time.

I sent out a message on FB to all of my friends looking for ladies of equal height to walk for me and ended up with some awesome mini-models (5′2″ to 5′4″).  What did I dress them in?  Super short dresses and high heeled wedges.

Here I go, redesigning stereotype again. This year I converted the house dresses of a chain-smoking old lady into some hot shifts for summer.

Here’s a sneak peak on what I’ve been up to for the last two months. I will fill you in on all the upcycling details later.

Some people have asked about the dress I wore for LBD2.

It was made of some remnant polyester of unknown origin (in the very bottom of the stash pile).  The design is semi-original.  I restored a pattern of my mom’s and made it sleeveless in the process.

Next time I will definitely make better fabric decisions.  Technically, this was a prototype.

PS.  Those are my “new” shoes.

My Yenta gave me full creativity rights when it came to upcycling her t-shirt.

I decided the shirt was too orange.  Most of it had to go away.  I kept the front part with the silk screening and appliqued it to the front.   As much as I didn’t like the orange, Idecided to use a small piece to reverse applique an ohm symbol on the back.

I had her try it on and decided to keep the v-neck but make it a racer back.  The shirt is super streamlined now (I hope it still fits.  If it doesn’t, I can add racing stripes down the side.)