Our oldest daughter is a bridesmaid in her friend’s wedding this summer. It is a wonderful event. However, the bridesmaids dress doesn’t quite fit. We ordered three different dresses on three different sizes of the same dress on three different occasions. The last dress fits, sort of. The sweetheart neckline hangs too low for comfort. The upper bodice is lace and to go up a size was going to call for even more alterations. The color is purple and impossible to match.
Here it is in the deconstruction process. My daughter being handy with the seam ripper and also good at basting, removed the solid liner while leaving the lace in place along the zipper and waist. She basted the the lace at the waist line and zipper to hold all the layers of fabric in place. The only spare fabric in this dress was behind the 2 1/2 inch ribbon at the waist line.
We added a fabric strip in behind the ribbon to the lining. Then I sewed the bodice to the lace at the top, zipper and waistline. I used invisible thread as none of the commercial threads matched.
It works and she will be covered for the wedding. This isn’t much of a tutorial but more of what we did to solve the problem. I hope it helps someone.
Talk to you later,
Karen