How to remake a dress, if it is not enough?

Many women during the purchase of the next dress in the store or on the flea market are primarily guided not by common sense, but by a spontaneous impulse, a huge desire to get what they liked at all costs. In such cases, the brain is completely turned off, and such purchases, as a rule, are then disappointed when we come home and it turns out that the thing is too short, small or there is nowhere to put it on. Fortunately, not all the fair sex perform such desperate deeds - more often things just have to be adjusted a little to achieve the perfect style and size. In this article we will answer the most important question, which concerns many ladies: how to remake a dress, if it is small, independently. In principle, there is nothing difficult in this work, if there is a desire and time to work for yourself for good.

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Is the dress a little thin or change?

Naturally, the first thing that comes to mind is to lose weight. But not everyone can throw off a sufficient amount of kilograms in a short period of time to get into a brand new dress.

You can try to solve it. But first imagine visually what kind of result you want to achieve. Here a lot depends on the design of the dress itself, because, perhaps, it can not be altered at all. And if it has a lot of reliefs, seams and coquettes, then it will be even easier.

In any case:

1. First it will have to be ripped open.
2. After that, all the seams are carefully ironed and all threads are removed.
3. Then you need to select the material that will play the role of the insertion, and it's better if it reminds the texture by the texture, and by color you can choose - on the contrary, a contrasting hue.
4. Excellent for this purpose, suitable mesh and guipure. With the help of these materials, you can significantly increase the outfit, give it sexuality and femininity.

Important! If you are not a fan of open things, then use a double cloth, for example, now in fashion silk and satin, which are covered with a mesh cloth on top. Simply looks fabulous skin color material with black guipure inserts.

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Useful advices of

professionals Now we will consider the most popular solutions for problems arising with things bought by eye, that is small in size. So, hereafter we will get acquainted with the most useful and tested advice of professionals regarding how to make a big dress from a small one:

1. If you just bought an entirely new dress or attire that is almost not worn, you can just gently tear the seams and reduce the allowanceson them. Believe me, this seemed a simple option, will significantly increase the size of the dress.
2. If it is necessary to lengthen the dress, you can sew a beautiful and stylish frill from below or cut it in the waist region, insert a strip of original fabric in this place.

Important! The material can be taken by anyone, and that the changes made are in harmony with the dress itself, you can trim the same fabric with the bodice or sleeves.

1. We must not forget that before the firmware it is necessary to wash and iron the new material so that after finishing it does not sit down and does not spoil your new outfit even more.
2. Before you start working, you need to carefully calculate the patterns, remembering to take into account all allowances for seams, the ability to move freely.
3. If the clothes are small in a particular place, then you can try to do something with it. For example:
   • The area of ​​the bodice can be enlarged by deepening the décolletage line or inserting a beautiful ribbon directly into the seam.
   • Wedges help extend the dress in the hip area.

Important! The most problems arise when the thing is small at the waist, because then you have to change it completely.

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What if the dress is small in the chest, hips or waist?

In this situation, you need to look for information on how to extend the dress on the sides with your own hands. That you could get into it and not feel at the same time discomfort in the hips, you need to sew a piece of cloth on each side. To do this, simply cut it out on the darts, add the prepared material to the right place and sew everything back together. There is nothing complicated and supernatural in this.

Important! When it comes to the hips, the fabric for the inserts is better to choose not too bright color, so that it hides the volumes a little.

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What if the new outfit is too short?

And now we will consider the situation in another perspective - when the bought dress does not cover the necessary parts of the body along the length. The issue of lengthening the outfit can be solved in several ways:

• Bottom around the perimeter is to sew a wide ribbon of lace or lace fabric, which will give an image of playfulness and stylishness.
• To search a fabric similar on all parametres basic, to cut out from it the missing slice, to sew it on the necessary place.
• If you are a fan of non-standard solutions, you can lengthen things with a completely different alternative fabric, for example, with some bright print or geometric pattern.
• To make the new dress more solemn and elegant, you can sew a cloth in the form of frills.

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Selecting a material for a dress change

Someone may think that it does not matter what material to choose for a new dress change. But this is a big mistake and mistake that many needlewomen allow. The fact is that if it is too different from the main fabric, then the dress will look sloppy. Therefore do not save your time, bypass a couple of ateliers or shops with fabrics to choose the material that is suitable for texture and structure.

We need to take care of making a small pattern. To expand the outfit or increase its length, you need to do all the measurements taking into account the severity of the calculations and the register.

Important! Remember that the dress is a very complicated part of the wardrobe, because it covers almost the entire figure, except for the legs. Therefore, not everyone is able to properly remake them - you need to use foresight and skill, courage and have excellent taste.

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We change the dress of a small size

. Next we will gradually and in detail consider how to arrange a dress, if it is small, independently. In fact, this idea is quite simple in terms of implementation and it is suitable for reworking a dress of almost any style:

• With a strip of only 5 cm in width, we can increase the volume of the product by 1 cm.
• If you use a strip 6 cm wide, then 2 cm. And so on - everything will depend on how much you need to increase it in each specific case.
• If it is planned to scale too much, it is better to use two strips at once.

Important! Another important point that must be taken into account. Many people get better, that is, things get small just in front. Therefore, in order to increase the new product, in most cases it is enough simply to enlarge the shelf.

It is also possible to simultaneously and evenly increase the backrest and shelf. But in such cases, the width of the neck must necessarily increase by one fourth of the total number of increase in the shelf.

In addition to the product itself, a companion material is required for the rework.

Step-by-step sequencing looks like this:

1. Preparing dresses. First you need to rebuff the collar or neckline, turn the bottom part. Then steam off the product.
2. Before cutting a dress, it is necessary to fold it, while combining the shoulder and side seams, reliefs and darts, halves of the neck and bottom. With the help of pins, it is necessary to combine all the joint seams and mark out the half-dish.
3. If you use one strip to increase the dress, then you need to cut the shelf along the line of half-dress. But in the case of two stripes, you will need to attach a line to the half-line, make a markup, step back from it a few centimeters and cut off both shelves.
4. Now proportionally reduce the throat. This requires a breast level. In order not to be mistaken, you can use your breast height measurement. The throat groove solution - the width of the insert in the finished form minus the third part from the insert in the finished form. But this formula is considered approximate, therefore we do only vtachki marking, taking into account that its vertex must necessarily be above the chest line, at least 2 cm.
5. After fitting, we cut off all unnecessary.
6. The insert can be made by means of wedges, because much less fabric is used for their manufacture than for one-piece parts.
7. Then make the inserts, smooth the seams and process the bottom and throat.

The dress is ready!

So we found out how to remake the dress, if it is not enough. The work does not take too much time and effort. The only thing that to achieve the intended result is to do everything carefully and carefully.