Me! In my role as "Seamstress" in the epic horror "Broken Zippered Homecoming Dress...From HELL!"
My alternate title for this post was "How A $5 Goodwill Dress Saved Homecoming."
My niece bought a dress for homecoming online from a company in California, only to receive it with a broken zipper. Not having enough time to send it back and get a new one (as homecoming is this Saturday and SOMEBODY didn't plan ahead), guess who was given the task of ripping out the old zipper and finding a new one to stitch in?
White, 18" zippers are not as easy to find around here as one might think...so I turned to Goodwill. For $5, I found a cute little dress with the right zipper, that worked and the rest of the dress can easily be turned into an apron for me! Yay, win-win!
Taking the zipper out was easy. Stitching one side in, equally easy. Stitching in that other side turned out to be a different kettle of fish altogether! I stitched it once, ripped it out, stitched it again, only to see that the zipper - which I tested repeatedly - was starting to split! It took a little creative sewing, but I think it'll survive the night. She has been forewarned to go easy on it...just in case. I also told her that the alternative was to hand stitch her INTO it! She wasn't too keen on that.
This will be her last homecoming dance, so I doubt I will have to do this ever again. Unless I ever have a daughter of my own. Only time will tell with that one.
For now, though, homecoming has been saved, thanks to that cute little $5 Goodwill dress.
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