In an effort to cheer her up last night, I suggested that we dress up for a dinner at home. This means wearing our "bestest dresses", wearing jewelry and doing up our hair. My daughter *loves* dressing up. She also *loves* bling. So we went to her wardrobe and she happily contemplated a couple of dresses, then going through her jewelry box and decided which one to wear.
Then we went to my wardrobe and.... um.... in my daughter's words "you don't really have anything that's not for work, huh Mum".
Okay - so she has a point. I have a formal (wedding) dress but no party dresses as such. Plus all my dresses (yes the ones I wear to work) are all summer dresses.
So I realised that to carry the evening through, I needed a party dress. So hunting through my wardrobe, I found this:
Its an op shopped men's jumper I bought recently for ....$1. Its 100% lambswool and um...black. Its warm, its comfortable and IT'S DAGGY. Its my uber daggy jumper for my uber daggy days.
But daggy has no place, when a diva awaits :P.
So I cut off the cuffs on the sleeves then cut the sleeves again and re-sewed the sleeves.
I cut off the bottom and reshaped the torso and arms using the same coat I used for my reconstructed leather jacket as a guide for a shaped look.
Then I resewed the bottom upside down to get the "frill" look at the bottom and....
Incidentally, necklace is from my daughter's jewelry box (because she said that mine's "boring") and the boots are Country Road - op shopped at St Vinnies for $20.
My daughter also looked fantastic in her red dress but she didn't want me to take photos of her with the rash still on her face. So I'm putting up an older photo of her in it:
Imagine above dress but with much more bling.
Dinner was by candlelight using the best of our dinnerware and I got sushi from her favourite restaurant. I had a wonderful time and it was fantastic to see my beautiful daughter giggle and laugh throughout "our date".
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.
6 comments:
Absolutely love it! That dress would sell for hundreds in a designer store! Cute boots too (what a bargain) and your daughter is gorgeous and adorable. Love her dress too! You are so clever, and always an inspiration...
Glad you are having fun! Hope you have some more girls nights in while you can!
Gorgeous! I love the shape of the sleeves. I imagine its nice and warm too. I've been thinking of making a skirt from an old wool jumper.
I hope you both had a lovely dinner.
Awesome, awesome, awesome!
Wow! You are one hot mamma in your new party dress!! Hope the 'date' went well and that your little lady is on the mend now.
That new dress looks fab. You've given me the courage I need to cut into a red jumper I have that I never wear in it's current incarnation (sleeves too tight). Here goes....
Just love your blog - being a mum throws up so many surprises and it is lovely to hear about you making lemonade out of some of the lemons. Great idea with dressing up. I think my sons might like a little silly fireman dinner or something on a blah night.
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