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Old 07-11-2014, 02:33 PM   #16
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Default Re: Messed up my dress, can it be salvaged?

If you can get the lining out of the way, you should be able to install a regular zipper then remove the seam stitches. The only difference from normal installation is you used regular stitches instead of basting stitches. So you'll have to be careful removing them, but it should be saved. Then just hand sew your lining to the zipper and back to the bottom of the bodice edge.

I wouldn't attempt an invisible at this point. You'd have to undo too much, and each stitch you take out is a risk to damage the fabric.
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Old 07-11-2014, 03:46 PM   #17
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Default Re: Messed up my dress, can it be salvaged?

Can you take a pic of what you have so far to work with? The back, the side seam, and the existing zipper?
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Old 07-11-2014, 05:09 PM   #18
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Default Re: Messed up my dress, can it be salvaged?

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Can you take a pic of what you have so far to work with? The back, the side seam, and the existing zipper?

I should be able to later tonight.


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Can you get up under the lining? If not, it might not be bad to go through both bodice and liner fabric just to save the dress. You would have to make sure that everything was lined up.

I would probably rip out any stitching holding the lining down, install a zipper in the side seam, tack the top and bottom to secure it, hand sew the lining to the back of the zipper, reattach the lining, and rip the bodice seam that has been replaced by a zipper. Follow?

If you really want an invisible zipper, you could rip the side seam all the way from a few inches of the skirt all the way through the sleeve and install the zipper. You'd have to detach the lining on that side first and then reattach it later.
That's probably what I would do, too.
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Sorry for the delay in pics. I had a migrane. :-(




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Default Re: Messed up my dress, can it be salvaged?

So, we're you ever able to fix this? It looks like it could be done. Just wondered how it turned out.
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