Upsizing fail. 🤷🏻♀️ Help a gal out 🙏🏻
~~ The project ~~
I got this beautiful vintage brown skirt at my local clothes swap and it was a size aus 12 and I’m a size aus 18. I wanted to keep the gores as the feature and still keep the length as well.
~~ What I came up with to make this skirt fit me ~~
I inserted fabric (from the existing skirt that was part of another ruffle along the bottom) into where the original seams were at the top so that I could then make it big enough to put elastic at the top to then pull it back in.
~~ The dilemma ~~
My hips sit where the gore points go up to and I have a bit of a tummy which accentuates this area making it more noticeable but it also looks like there is strain along my hip line when there is actually like 4cm
Does anyone know what I can do?
- I’m not a big fan of fitted skirts around my tummy since it fluctuates with bloating and what not.
- Comfort is key
- The only fabric that I have to use is 2 x 4cm wide strips.
- I’ve already tried to colour match this fabric at my local fabric stores and no dice.
- I’ve thought of putting strips either side of the gores all the way up to the top but not sure if that would look ugly or not.
- If it can be explained with visuals like drawing over the pictures, even better 🙏🏻 Thank you in advance xx 🙇🏻♀️
p.s sorry if the picture lighting is poop, I took these pics at night when I’m my most wired and awake to do projects 🦉