A SUSTAINABLE shopper has revealed how she transformed a secondhand wedding dress into the perfect outfit for her rehearsal party dinner.
Sarah Gonzales (@neothread) had initially planned to upcycle the dated white gown to wear on her big day but was forced to reconsider after alterations went wrong.
She has gone viral on TikTok after posting a series of videos showing how she turns items from thrift stores into trendy new pieces.
Sarah showed the entire process of ruining and overhauling a wedding dress that she had thrifted in a style-savvy video.
The fashionable bride wore her hair in a loose bun as she donned the original floor-length white dress, which had no strips and heavy lace detail.
“How I ruined and unruined a perfectly good wedding dress,” she said.
“I thrifted this wedding dress in hopes of redesigning it for my wedding. I had high hopes for a classic, fitted silhouette with an open back and a sophisticated square neckline.
“I got to work tediously removing the Swiss dot overlay.
"We were getting somewhere but the fabric was proving to be very rigid and I was beginning to get nervous.
“I carried forth into calamity. I took in the sides, added faux straps, opened the back, and found that the dress had lost all structure.
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“And it was somehow loose and tight at the same time. It was disheartening.”
Sarah showed that the dress looked worse than when she began the project with visible seams and an unflattering shape.
She continued: “I had to step away and find new inspiration. It was only up from here. About 24 inches up, with one quick pivot and one terrifying cut through the dress.
“Some found fabric and lots of patience, I ended up with my dream rehearsal party dress.
“It made me feel straight out of a Parisian novel. It was officially unruined.”
Sarah’s dress looked almost unrecognizable following the alteration with oversized bows on the straps and a flared skater cut.
She teamed the open-back dress with matching sunglasses and mules for effortless glamour. The video went viral with over 11,000 views and a stream of impressed comments.
“So so talented, Sarah!!” one wrote.
“I love it so much!!” another said.
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“You’re amazing,” a third chimed in.
“It’s sooo good!” a fourth added.
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