HELP,make this skirt longer ,ideas anyone???

FINKEL

Tue, Mar 27 2007, 10:53 pm

so I bought this crochet top and black skirt at anntaylor.com
its stunning
but the skirt is 2 inches too short on me
I was thinking of adding a 2 inch crochet trimming (black ) on the bottom but I cant find ,anyone has any ideas how to make this skirt 2 inches longer?????
http://fp.anntaylor.com/@v=014.....l.jpg
the top:
http://fp.anntaylor.com/@v=014.....l.jpg

Tefila

Tue, Mar 27 2007, 11:03 pm

For the skirt you could add a black material sam as the one on the skirt added Confused

micki

Tue, Mar 27 2007, 11:16 pm

add a few inches to the top. no one will tell if the shirt covrs it.

taffy

Tue, Mar 27 2007, 11:32 pm

No tips here, just gotta say I love it! Wear it in good health!

FINKEL

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:19 am

I dont want to add from the top
just from the bottom
as it has nice waist trimming too
and you can see it as the top is open a bit

dr pepper

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:27 am

can you buy a bigger size and wear it lower on your hips?

FINKEL

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:30 am

the biggest is 16 and right now I am a 16 Sad

dr pepper

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:34 am

I have the same problem Sad

I know you don't want to add to the top, but maybe you would have an easier time matching the fabric from the bow on the top and adding it to the top of the skirt?

FINKEL

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:39 am

hey its not that bad...
last year this time I was a 22 !!!
so 16 is not so bad...
would the rag shop sell crochet trimming?

downsyndrome

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:46 am

Hey Finkel! How 'bout quickly shrinking 2 inches?

FINKEL

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:50 am

shefeleh, my hight is something I am not ready to give up for this skirt.....
haha

downsyndrome

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 12:53 am

FINKEL wrote:

shefeleh, my hight is something I am not ready to give up for this skirt.....
haha

Just 'install' a vertical lap band...

micki

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 8:48 am

ahh- so imitate the pattern it goes lines black crochet. lines black crochet.
so take off the crochet from the bottom, sew on a black peice resew the crochet to cover the sewing line, and then embellish it with more lines- I don't know what its made of so I can't help more.
but if you can't find more crochet fabric, then sew on lie of trim directly on the seam. then add afew more lines and add the removed crochet to the bottom. make sense?

greenfire

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 8:54 am

Why bother Finkel ... if you're always sewing ... might as well start from scratch ... then you will not have any problem matching ...

otherwise a good trick would be to get 2 skirts and use bottom half of 2nd to lengthen ... if $$ is not an issue

Mitzvahmom

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 9:12 am

that is one exspensive skirt and top!! oy vey

chocolate moose

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 3:32 pm

Who posted this before - was it you, Finkel, about an outfit for a girl, that you wanted to buy two skirts and have the tailor make it longer?

Maybe there were other good suggestins on that thread!

bashinda

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 9:00 pm

their skirts would be so cute if they were just 2" shorter! and I'm not even a tall person!

lotte

Wed, Mar 28 2007, 9:12 pm

FINKEL wrote:

finkel-I need some ideas how to make some clothes-bigger... Wink

FINKEL

Fri, Mar 30 2007, 12:18 am

what I ended up doing and is gonna cost me 50 bucks
was get first yards of ribbon the same as the belt of the top
and thats 1.5 inches already
then 2 inches of black crochet which will be attached to the bottom of the ribbon....
total for outfit with alterations ( including the discount I got onine )
is 220 $ thats not too bad