How to Turn a Dress Into a Skirt & Tube Top With Sexy 90s Vibes

Tools and materials:

• Thrifted dress
• Thread
• Fabric marker
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Sewing machine

1. Make the skirt pattern

Turn the dress inside out. Using a skirt from your closet that is the size and shape you want, place it on the dress, with the hem of your skirt at the bottom of the dress.

Mark all measurements from the skirt onto the dress fabric, then draw out the shape. Add a little extra for seam allowance.

2. Cut the skirt

Cut off the extra fabric from above the top line of the skirt, allowing for an extra inch in case you need to adjust it.

Now, draw lines for the sides of your skirt. Starting at the left outside waist mark, draw a slanted line down to the left bottom of the dress so your skirt will be slightly flared. Repeat on the other side.

3. Sew the skirt 

Sew along your side seam lines.

Cut the excess fabric from the outside of your skirt side seams.

Fold the waistline in one inch and sew along the open edge to create a finished skirt waist.

4. Make the tube top

Lay a tube top from your closet on top of your remaining dress fabric, with the bottom of the tube top one inch up from the bottom of your fabric.

Mark the center and side points of the tube top on your fabric. Then, join the dots to make a straight line across the top and a straight line across the bottom, once inch above the bottom of the fabric.

Cut the excess fabric off one inch above that line.

Now draw lines on the left and right sides of the fabric to mark the sides of your tube top.

Sew along the side seam lines and cut off the excess fabric from outside the seams.

Fold the top and bottom of the tube top inside one inch, then sew the top and bottom hem along the open edge to finish the top.

5. Make removable straps

Remove the straps from a bra and cut enough fabric to cover each bra strap with. 

Use the fabric to sew a casing for the bra straps, leaving the hooks on both ends exposed. Now you can attach your tube top to a strapless bra if you want to wear your tube top with matching straps.

You can also use one of the straps to make a matching choker necklace.

How to turn a dress into a skirt and top

You can wear this two-piece set with or without the straps, add in a belt, tuck in the tube-top to get the illusion of a mini-dress from your converted dress to skirt, or wear your converted dress as a two-piece skirt and top.

I hope you found this tutorial helpful and let me know what you think of the transformation in the comments below!