Thrift Store Refurbish

I absolutely adore silk! My love affair with silk began when I was 14 and my mother bought me a pale green Diane Von Furstenburg church dress. That dress was so soft and silky that I wore and treasured it until I was 25.

I was a spoiled brat and still am, but I don't always have the coinage to fund my Cosmopolitan tastes. This is one of the reasons why I make my own clothing. Another mechanism which enables me to maintain my Cosmopolitan leanings on a pauper's dime is the friendly neighborhood thrift store. While foraging this weekend, I came across these two delicious pieces of silk:

Often, one can find perfectly fine pieces in the thrift, but more often than not, one has to perform minor (or major) surgery to make a piece work. Like these two beauties had a couple of fixable imperfections. The skirt had a hideous piece of tulle attached to the hem. That might be OK for a twenty-something, but I'm pushing forty, so I can't do what the chickadees do. The blouse had an aweful cut out neckline (well, it was aweful to me, but someone else may have found it perfectly acceptable):

So, I removed the tulle from the skirt and reshaped the neckline of the blouse after removing the cutout.Here is a closer look at the back neckline:

Well, that's it for now! Back to the studio....