I don't know why I did those hand movements. Okay, um

As you guys know,

I love Reformation just as much as the next social media hoe

Um, probably more

Probably like a little bit, too much

I'll just let you soak in the beauty that is these pieces of clothing for a second

And then remind you that they cost like a hundred and seventy eight fucking dollars

So, today I'm gonna be trying to make some Reformation inspired designs from things that I found from the thrift store

Oh, and before we jump into it

Today, we have a special guest as well

Let me go grab her for you

This baby, the sewing machine!

I finally got one thanks to a lovely, lovely subscriber

I've had this for around like two months and I have

NOT learned to use it yet.

But today is the day

Okay, so the first piece that we're transforming,

is this lovely, linen dress

Oh, that's backwards

I got this at Council Thrift Stores,

which is a chain of thrift stores in LA for 8 dollars

What drew me to this dress,

is that it already has kind of all the makings of a reformation dress.

It has these tortoise shell buttons that are super trendy,

that I have on this dress as well

I also love the big ass pockets on this thing

You could probably fit,

not an iPad, but maybe like

2 Chipotle burritos in this pocket

However, in its current state, it's a bit

sack-tastic

That's a disgusting word

I mean, it looks like a potato sack

is what I'm saying

So instead I thought I would turn this into a two piece set

Honestly, this is one of the more complicated thrift flips that I've done,

and it's been about a year since I've used the sewing machine

So

I'm honestly not sure if this will work

I promise you I'm not being dramatic. I'm just....

unskilled

So, let's get to the voiceover and I'll walk you through...

whatever the hell I end up doing with this

So, to make this two-piece

I started off by cutting the dress into,

two pieces, as one might expect

and because I'm a real adult now who actually hems her edges

it was time to call in our good friend, the sewing machine

Well, let's see how this works

This does not seem right..

Okay, this is not how my grandma's sewing machine worked

You know you have an old person hobby when the instructions are written

this big on the page

This is like 34 point font for all those grandmas out there

Good thing my eyes are so young and healthy still

Is this the winder?

Alright, I think she's all threaded

Suppose, let's just get her fired up and sewing

I will say that sewing machine took a little bit of getting used to

but I'll show you guys what the top looks like right now

The hem is not straight

It is...

bicurious at best

Really, my craftsmanship is...

doing the least

Now for the skirt section,

which is more of a...

flaccid tube right now

I wanted to bring in the waist

but I couldn't just sew directly down the sides of the skirt

because that would cut off those pockets, which I wanted to keep.

So instead I cut out a panel from the back

so the total waist of my dress would be around 27 inches

and sew the center seam

right down

the butt side of the dress

So I just finished sewing the skirt and

I may or may not have

fucked up a little bit

Um...

Let me just show you...

It's pretty bad.

Basically, my problem is that I forgot that my body isn't

27 inches the entire way down

and I actually...

have hips...

Um..

Sorry, it's kind of new to me. I just went through puberty about five years ago

So yeah.

Your girl forgot to put in some room for the booty

So luckily I still have some of the fabric left over that I cut off from the skirt

so out of that I'm gonna cut a new triangle insert that'll hopefully

Fill in that nice big old crotch if you have also this could be a really useful way if you have a skirt

That's too small for you that you can expand it a little bit. I don't know why you'd have the exact same

Fabric as the fabric your skirt is made out of lying around your house

But that is for you to figure out I'm really just trying to rationalize my failure. Okay, let's fix this skirt

So to fix this I'm using my handy. Dandy seam ripper

Which I finally bothered to buy for like four dollars from Joanne's

Your girl's really moving up in the world

After frankensteining my skirt back together with that new sexy butt triangle and trimming off the excess fabric on this hot mess of a raw

I finished it all off with a simple hem along the top of the skirt

With the skirt done and finally covering my entire crotch

We're definitely heading in the right direction

But the top was still a little loose for my taste it kind of flared out weirdly in the back

So I brought it back to the sewing machine for what is essentially an incredibly thick

We're talking like three C's worth of thick dart down the back and trimmed off the excess fabric

And here is how the two pieces turned out

I will say the concept was a solid 10 out of 10

The actual execution was maybe 2 out of 10 at best

I think it looks cute as a set together, but honestly

I think they look even better and a little less like a nurse uniform when they're separate

That's obviously what's cool about the two-piece though is that I get more outfit options for like the 8 dollars that I spent on this

Entire project so I'm not mad at all next on the chopping block. We have this skirt. I got it for

$5.49 at Goodwill right now, it's fine

It's just chilling, you know a solid color a plain design not objectionable

But I thought I could turn this into something a lot cuter

So the first thing I wanted to do was make the skirt a little bit more of a modern silhouette by taking a couple inches

off the bottom hem

I tried on the skirt and folded it up to where I wanted the new hem to be to test it out and then mark

that spot with a safety pin then I laid it down flat and cut across about an inch below that mark to sew the new

Hem, we're gonna be doing an invisible stitch so that we won't see the stitches on the outside of the skirt

Which will hopefully make it look a lot more polished and also to be honest

I was just kind of triggered by my inability to sew a straight line on the first thrift flip

so to do an invisible stitch

I'm poking through the folded up part and then grabbing just the tiniest tiniest

Single thread from the other side so that on the outside. It doesn't really look like there's a stitch at all

At least that's the goal

So now it's looking like a much more flattering shape, but I still feel like it's a little bit plain

So I also bought this weird

cardigan slash jacket thing

Um, you know looks like something your grandma who collects cat statues would wear no offense though to grandmas who collect cats tattoos

That's good. Beanie endured 60 years, but obviously, this is all my style. Not my color either

So I'm basically just gonna cut the buttons off of this and put them on to the skirt

Which kind of breaks my heart because I feel so bad wasting this piece of clothing but thrifting this was honestly cheaper than buying

By themselves and hopefully like at least I'm upcycling a little fist. So

don't hate me just sew the buttons on I opted for a cream thread instead of a pink that matched the skirt because I really

Wanted that button details to stand out and here's how the skirt turned out

Hopefully nobody stops to think about the fact that there is an entire row of buttons

That's not actually attaching anything to anything like buttons are supposed to but other than that

I think it looks quite cute and on trend and definitely a little bit more of a statement than the original plain skirt

And lastly we have this pale yellow dress for some reason

I'm going through a yellow phase right now, and I thought this color was delightful

So again, this dress is a little bit large on me and a little bit shapeless and especially since it's a longer length

I feel like it's really easy for me to look kind of drowned in the fabric look a little bit like old-fashioned prairie girl

But not in a cute way, you know, so to bring in the waist and add a little more detail to the dress

I'm gonna be making this corset detail

I'm basically Criss crossing some satin ribbon across the back of the dress and attaching it using some matching thread

So to do that

I'm creating a tiny little loop at the side of the dress with the thread and

Tightening it just enough so that the ribbon is attached, but it can still move around

So at the end I'll be able to tighten and loosen the corset thingy

I

Continued making those little loops all the way down the dress spacing out my stitches around 2 inches apart vertically

Also because I'm scandalous I wanted to change up this more conservative neckline

So I flipped the dress inside out and then inside out again

like inside out

Deception so that I could resew the line where the neckline was attached to the lining. I sewed a new straight neckline which was a

lot more similar to stuff that I'd seen on Reformation dresses and something that I just loved personally after trimming out the excess it was

Looking like this

I still wanted to iron out the seam a little bit so that it laid more flat

But I'm a college student so I don't actually own an iron

So a handy life hack for you is that you can actually just use a random object

I'm using a big stack of paper. You can use a textbook you can use the crushing weight of your parents expectations

You know

Whichever is heaviest and just leave it on top overnight to press those seams flat after a good night of pseudo ironing

Here is how it turned out.

I was actually so happy with how this turned out and so proud of this dress that I bothered to go outside and prance around in

Front of a stranger's house to show it off. Also, please ignore how many leaves are on my butt in this shot

I was sitting on the pavement posing dramatically like two seconds earlier, and I forgot that they were there

So yeah

It's so proud of how this turned out and I'm just gonna go ahead and say what we've been waiting for me to say this

Entire video which is that it reminds me of something from Reformation

Alright guys, and that is all for this video. Thank you so much for watching

I know this video was a bit struggle at the beginning

But we got through it and I'm really happy with how everything turned out. Especially this dress. I literally feel like a fairytale princess

I'm so happy with it also

Let me know if you guys want me to do a certain thrift flip on like a certain item from the thrift store

Where was a certain theme or season in mind? Let me know in the comments below

So thank you again so much for watching and I will see you guys next week