Old Dress + Scissors + Sequins = New Top

A month or so ago, I decided this Old Navy dress (via Goodwill, OBVS) just wasn’t short enough. What? My birthday’s in a few weeks, i.e. I’ve got a few more years to toe the line between sexy and slutty sans crossing it completely. (Note: subjective statement.)

In lieu of scissoring, I ‘hemmed’ the aforementioned dress with hot glue. This proved a massive error in judgment.

The material was way too thin to handle the intensity of the sticky stuff (eew…sorry); the glue spots were fully visible from all sides of the dress; a hot mess of a mini was the result.

Blast! The dress was doneskies. Or so I thought.

I’d picked up a pack of oversized sequins on my last trip to M&J trimmings; using them as a mask/embellishment seemed an excellent alternative to trashing the dress. I adhered them to the material with (surprise) more hot glue. Witness the result:

The final product is, admittedly, shorter than I intended.

Whatever.

I’m wearing spandex shorts underneath, layered over two pairs of opaque tights. This, of course, significantly decreases the odds of a celebrity-esque hoo-ha flash.

I suppose it could double as a top, but who am I kidding? I effing love minis.

Oh, and the belt was three bucks at a rando New Jersey thrift store. Secondhand shopping in suburbia is the SHIZNAT.