Dress to Tea Length, Coordinating Bolero

Remember from the last post, that I bought two identical dresses and cut one to tea length. Here is the fix for the second dress, which is still full length. (I did it using the fabric from the first dress's slip.)


Basically, I was able to use the third layer of fabric from the skirt of the first dress, a heavy solid navy blue satin, to sew a coordinating bolero for the second dress. I think it works because it is an exact match to the blue satin at the waist of the dress. The pattern is one I drafted from a commercial pattern. The good thing about it is, although it does want to fall to the side like all boleros, the design line at the front will still provide great coverage.