The Molly

For the past three posts, I've wrote about dresses that needed extensive work as far as sewing, shortening and removal of the sleeves go. Today, I would like to talk about a dress that needed extremely minimal work, no sewing, and was a great piece on its own. It was an even better piece with a few key accessories added.

I like to call this dress The Molly, because it reminds me of something you would see on Molly Ringwald via her glory days in the 80s. At first glance, it is just a basic jean dress, but then you realize it has this little gaggle of iridescent white buttons parading around the neckline. This was what was keeping it in the 80s, and no disrespect to the era, but I'm just not an eighties girl.

All I needed to do was remove the buttons, which was fairly simple. I took my seam ripper and got between the buttons and the fabric. They popped right off. There were small holes from where the thick thread was, but with one washing they went away. I need not do anything else to alter the dress, because it couldn't have had a better fit if it tried.

To accentuate all the right parts as well as update the dress, I decided to go with classic black, with a twinge of silver mixed in. I took a black, front studded belt made for going around the waist, and a black and silver long necklace for the following look.

I was very fortunate that, from any angle, this dress truly had the right fit. Little miracles make less work for me, and I absolutely love the dress.

I've since learned that pairing it with a pair of black boots, or black high heels can take this dress from day casual, to sexy evening vixen. There are many other colors and belts that it can be paired with, but I think I like the black the best.