My youngest sister in law got married today. She has the kindest soul she is who took care of my mother in law while she was dieing. She is very dear to me. My middle daughter wanted to wear something special to the wedding as did I . So I made the dress you see in these first photos for her to wear and I wore one of my mother in laws vintage dresses from the early to late 60's.
This dress in these pictures is a re-make of one that my mother in law wore as a teen ager. You can see from the original post about that dress it had lots of age damage.
My daughter did wear the original once to a sadies dance. But we could tell that it should never be worn again which was heart breaking to us. It is a dress for good memories of that dance and mom now. The original was brown and green the new version is brown and hot pink.

The belt she is wearing is a vintage 1980's belt but it matched well.
The below pictures are of the dress when it was under construction. You can see the flowers I was talking about in these photos that I used in the hair. At the time I was debating on using them on the dress. So they where pined on to see what they looked like.
I lengthened this version of the dress as my daughter wanted it a little longer. If I make it again I will lengthen the torso as well to make it a few inches longer so the waist I feel more correct for her height. My mother in law a was a petite woman in height.
We also added a little extra room in the over bodice to make it easier to lift the arms. The straps on the under bodice I also doubled in width to give them a little more strength.


I loved reading your story about the dress and your daughter looks beautiful in both, especially the new and better version :)
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