Dress like your Great Aunt Helga? Wander around in a wedding dress from the sixties like some scorned bride?
Honestly, I’d be lost. Or at least I wouldn’t be buying so many vintage pieces and having them made over.
Like this dress. Which was gorgeous, just not my style. A few snips here, a little sewing there, and it’s parfait for everyday.
Wore it with my gold and ruby earrings from Istanbul. (Confession: I bought them as a gift for my sister and then promptly stole them back. Please tell me I’m not the only one to de-gift like that.)
And my leather lace-ups. Which begs the question: what would I do without my favourite boots? I shudder at the thought.
P.S. What would you do if you won a bottle of Marc Jacobs BANG?
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What a great transformation! I’m glad to see that the button-rows made the cut! Looks lovely.
yay! The after is beautiful :) Love the boots! I always do things like that, buy something for someone else but then I end up keeping it :)
<3 Kastles
Ooooh, I love how it turned out! I think I need to steal your tailor haha.
Melissa
Wonderful outfit! I luv a lot!
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That’s a great “after”! Wow!
Gorgeous look, darling!
Love those earrings!
xoxox,
CC
Wow, great job on the re-do. Love the boots. Where from?
Another cute altered vintage frock for the collection! You have a great eye for the potential of a piece, Kelsey.
Fabulous alterations! Love how you paired it with the scarf (great detail!) and the lace-ups…(where are the lace ups from? I wonder what I’m doing withOUT them in my life! haha!)
bubbs
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I absolutely love that dress!
Great choice in altering the dress! Looks fab on you now!
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Will you please come vintage shopping with me and custom make clothes pour moi ? ;)
Your transformations always look amazing
Beautiful dress – I love what you had done to it and the button detailing is gorgeous, as is the color. Love the earrings too – I think I spent too much time inhaling spices when I was in Istanbul to fully pay attention to the jewelry stores. Shame on me…
Ah, this is just such a stunning ensemble, Kelsey. I truly am in awe. Also, where did you get those boots? J’adore!! :)
Stunning! I love the transformation. Vraiment parfait, bravo! :)
omg lol
a lot of people keep a few gifts here and there lol
the dress looks beautiful
and cute boots!!!!
-Bionica
Your tailor is awesome! The color is very “parfait” as you put it and looks great with those brown boots.
I degift all the time! As horrible as it sounds, when I got back from Morocco I had a suitcase full of jewellry to give away to friends and family and I’m ashamed to say I kept 95% of it…
The dress looks lovely!
i love the colours in this outfit! and those boots are gorgeous.
gorgeous & i love the scarf especially! i’m glad to see your fabulousness… i’ve recently begun visiting your fair city and love it, but am underwhelmed by the street fashion (or lack thereof… but i notice with spring things look up a bit, maybe thats fashion season?)
i’m loving the blog. i’m not really a blog person either.
thanks