Dress-Up Dress: Gold/Red Version

My friend's 6 year old daughter loves to play dress-up. The only problem is that she has been blessed with tall genes so the normal store bought dress up is too small for her. On a trip to my favorite fabric store in Solvang, CA I had planned to buy a formal and revamp it for her. Their formals run from 6-20 dollars each! Pretty cheap. Looking around the store I found an even better deal. 1 buck! The only catch was that these particular formals were unfinished.

I found this gold dress for $1.00! The zipper just needed to be attached. It even came with the zipper it just wasn't sewn in yet.

I nabbed this top for $1.00. It was missing a skirt bottom.

Then I headed to the fabric store and picked out a sparkly red netted fabric. Like something you would use for veils, over skirts, etc. I bought a yard for about 5 bucks. If I had been smarter I probably could have bought less fabric and it would have been even cheaper.

I removed the top from the gold dress, attached a red sparkly train, attached the red top to the gold skirt, added a zipper, and then used a fabric scrap to create a flower for the back.

Not too bad for under ten bucks!