Navy Blue Band Skirt - REDUX

Okay so FIRST I want everyone to know that the girl behind Vintage-Vixen dyed her hair bubblegum pink and it's GORGEOUS.

Anyway, back to business.

As I mentioned last time, I had two of those old band skirts. For the second one, I decided to get two outfits from it, which required the use of some extra fabric I had lying around.

The first part was just to cut the long skirt into two pieces, leaving the waistband intact, and freeing up about two yards of fabric one foot wide.

oh I also had to open up the hem - which added like four more inches it was great

Okay so there's that.

I took the top half of the skirt and added lace to it and got this:

only picture of this you get because I'm lazy

So that's cute! Now, for the rest of it, I realized I didn't have enough fabric to make a romper just from the band skirt remnants (well I probably did, but it would be a funky looking tiny romper). I pulled out this old swimsuit cover-up that my sister had cut into a shirt and left in my closet to rot. I cut the shirred top away from the skirt part - initially intending to use the shirred part but then I realized it was too narrow, so I decided to work with the plain fabric.

(which I ironed like a madwoman)

 And then there was a bunch of sewing together of fabric that I didn't take pictures of because I got into a zone. But then I decided to add pockets! I had decided on a navy/white/red theme because I found some ADORABLE buttons with that color palette in my mom's button collection, so I took some old scrap fabric (from church banners or something) and turned that into red pocket edging, and used the extra shift fabric from my hi-low dress as the lining.

Observe my guidebook in the left corner.

The other things I did were:

• add the buttons to the front
• sew 5 pieces of elastic across the back because I didn't want to give up on having a shirred look
• stitched down all the seam allowances and hems with red thread so they would show up on the right side
• added lace to the straps of the romper because the navy blue is a little stretchy.

Aaaand that's about it! I miscalculated the length of the shorts a couple times so I had to take out the entire central seam, but that's kinda par for the course when I don't feel like drafting a real pattern oops.

I have a very small head in this photo and it's kind of unnerving.

What's that in the background of the after photo you ask? Why, it's Cirque du Soleil! My friend and I were going to see Amaluna because we weren't going to Otakon this year.
I decided I wanted to make a romper because a) I didn't own any and b) I wanted to sew something because I wasn't making a new costume.

I have since added lace to the bottom hem because it felt incomplete, and now I'm totally happy with it! The only problem is that blue and red are Odd colors!!!!