Today I wore my vintage dress, that I have made, to work.It is from a fabulous vintage pattern that I bought off Ebay (people selling their dead grandma's patterns, I love it!), and fabric that was on sale, $8 per meter, at Spotlight.
The dress took me probably 12 hours to make, and I had to alter the top of the dress to suit my figure and style, which also meant I had to alter the sleeves (well straps really) quit significantly.
All in all though, a successful effort and I'm looking forward to my next dress!
This pattern I bought for just over $5! I am really happy and I'm planning to make the sleevless straight dress in a blue/black/white check for work. Some other patterns that I was bidding on ended up going for a lot higher than I was willing to pay for them. I suppose you could look at these patterns one of two ways: