Thursday, March 18, 2010

Good Straps: An easy way to improve your dress!


I recently bought a dress from Free People. I love the brand for their fun fabrics and unique way of creating garments. Even still, as a designer, almost nothing I buy is perfect as is. In this case the dress was great--besides the straps.
In my opinion, because the straps were this cheap shoe-lace material it down graded the overall feel.
Solution! Change the straps! So, I cut them off and made thicker straps from a really nice black Tar Poly (like lycra).
As you can see from the picture below the simple adjustment makes all the difference. It raises the quality on the dress noticeably.

1 comment:

Sue Zann said...

Looking gorgeous as usual.

Would've loved to see a before pic of the dress :)