Jul/090
How to change a dress into a top
If you have an old dress in your wardrobe that you a really bored with and because of that haven’t worn it for simply ages, well instead of letting it occupy valuable space in your wardrobe without being of use, or worse still throwing it out, you can change it into a top. This way you would be able to wear it with a skirt or with jeans and probably make much more use of it than when it was a simple dress.
But before you actually cut into the dress, the first thing you have to do is to secure the zip at the point where you envisage the line of the hem will be because if you don’t do this it will run. Sew round and round the part of the zip where the hem of the top will be and test it by pulling the zip up and down to make sure that it stops just at that point.
You then cut the dress about 4 inches below your waistline, while making sure that the zip on the dress is closed. These 4 inches are firstly because you need spare material in order to sew a hemline to your new top and secondly you want to be left with enough spare material in order to tuck it into the waistline of a skirt or a pair of jeans.