We couldn't believe this find at St Vinnies Paddington. Loved the lacy collar. Trouble was again.... it was about 4 sizes too big and had really wide and puffy shoulders. It has been a while since this revamp so am going by memory but I think the bulk of the size was reduced by stitching in a back seam and re-stitching the seam opening after unstitching the facing at the back and resizing the facing to the new dress size. The facing was reattached and the new neck opening restitched with the old loop stitched back in to the facing.
The bodice was unpicked from the waist seam and was shortened about three inches. Then it was reattached to the skirt section of the dress. The cap of the puffy sleeves was stitched in about 3 cms so the sleeves would sit better and this helped to slightly shorten the sleeve length as well. Then the dress was hemmed to mid-thigh length.
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