I’ve talked about easy ways to tailor your clothes to make them fit better or make them feel more “you” and I’m at it again. This time it is the literal EASIEST tailoring job I’ve EVER done on a dress, so I wanted to share it with you all in case you have a dress or skirt sitting in your closet that would benefit from the same treatment.
The dress:
I was browsing the thrift store, saw the fabric of this dress from 15 feet away, and immediately clocked it as something from Anthropologie. Even better, it was my size and a style I recognized – the “Somerset” dress that I own in another colorway and love!
The only thing was that I didn’t really *need* a second Somerset maxi dress. So, I figured I’d hem it to more of a midi dress so that I could get more use out of it. And that is where I completely lucked out…
The bottom of the dress is tiered and has these pretty little folds above each tiered section. So all I had to do was carefully cut off the bottom tier, BEHIND the folds and save myself the trouble of getting out my sewing machine and hemming it!
That’s right, I JUST HAD TO CUT off a tier. No needle and thread. No sewing. NOTHING.
It took less than 5 minutes.
And BOOM. That’s it. Dress tailored in the easiest way possible. It was so easy, I woke up, decided to shorten it, cut the bottom off and wore it to work that day. That’s what we call an easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy moment, my friends!
Here’s the thing, there are TONS of tiered dresses and skirts out there. So if you have one in your closet that isn’t getting worn much because you’re not as into the ‘maxi’ length, give it a little chop-chop. Depending on how the tiers come together, you may get lucky and not even have to hem it at all. (If you MUST hem it and you can’t/don’t want to sew, you can always use this for a quick and easy hem: https://amzn.to/4s3Lkkc)
Oh and if you’d like to see a quick before/after video which gives a better look at the dress folds and the inside of the hem where I cut it, I made a Reel here:
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