Her mom has since past away for many years now but she’s held onto these special dresses. Instead of having them hang in the back of the closet to hold onto the memories she thought why not get them turned into dresses for her grand daughters to wear and share the memories. Here’s the fun part, she asked if I could make the new dresses look exactly like the old dresses with all the same details. I thought that was a fantastic idea and would be such a fun creative project to work on!
Here are the before and after photos of the 4 dresses (front and back). The new dresses are made in size 3T & 4T. Now she can pass the memories of her mother down to her grandchildren who never had a chance to meet their great grandmother.
These dresses were hand made by my customers mother years and years ago. When creating the new dresses I didn’t just want to use the dresses for their fabric, I wanted to include some of her mothers beautiful handy work into the new dresses as well. So I was able to use all of the original hems including the beautiful lace finishes. As well in some dresses I included some original seaming, finishing and belts.
This makes the dresses that much more special!