Vintage reworked

Posted by Jenny.

I adore all things vintage.  The smell, the feel, the idea that whatever I'm wearing is infused with so many memories.  That's why when I found this little dress at an antique convention I had to buy it for my three-year-old.  It's a 1950's  hand-made pillowcase that has been reworked into a child's dress.  The delicate cottony cloth of the pillowcase, the end product of a hundred gentle washings, is soft and tactile and perfect and almost makes me want to learn how to sew so that I could rescue all those gorgeous, lacey pillow-cases from thrift store bins and give them all a second life as a beautiful dress.  You know...almost.

But what I really want is for someone to make me a dress like that although it'd have to be out of a queen sized bed sheet to fit me and really?  Who would go around in a dress made out of a bedsheet?  *cough*

Comments

[Major Bedhead]

That's so beautiful. Must start haunting the linens section of the thrift stores....

[flutter]

LOVE this, Jenny.

[ilinap]

Gasp! I love it.

[lildb]

i am enamored of the child more than the dress. that said, the dress is DIVINE.

so.

[mamatulip]

Oh my GAWD. That is the best dress I've ever seen.

The model's pretty damn cute, too.