I have a few dresses of Youngest Girl I just fell in love with last year and the year before. I managed to get two years worth of use of them as a dress…and STILL I love them…so this year, they still fit in the arms, they just became cute little shirts over a cute pair of flare jeans. That makes me happy and works for me. (Besides, I love that I can still get her to wear the things I like…it went out the window with Oldest Girl!!!)
Posted by: Tamara Cosby | September 26, 2007
Works for Me Wednesday
Posted in Works for me Wednesday
Responses
Leave a response
Categories
- 2 Kings
- 2 Samuel
- Accountability
- Adopting August
- Adoption
- Amos
- Baking
- Bible Thoughts
- Big Brother
- Blog Awards
- BOOKS TO READ
- Changing Me
- Christ Follower
- Christian Book Reviews
- Christian Television
- Christmas
- Compassion International
- contests
- Custom Shirts
- Custom T-Shirts
- DATE YOUR SPOUSE!
- DATING YOUR SPOUSE
- Death and Dying
- Donating a Kidney
- Educating Me…
- Emotions
- ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS
- Eric Volz
- exercising
- Fear
- Friends
- Fun with Us
- Giveaway
- God's Will
- Growing Up
- Haiti
- Hilarious!
- Homeschooling
- I AM HIS
- John
- Languages
- Let No Man Put Asunder
- Life…And so it goes.
- Losing Teeth
- Love
- Luke
- Marriage
- Matthew Paul Turner
- Moving
- Mwanza
- My sweet Olders..
- Nashville Star
- Neat Folks
- Need Help
- Oldest Boy
- Oldest Girl
- Our Family
- Parenting
- Physically Fit
- POLITICS
- Praying
- Random Fun
- Random thoughts
- READING GOALS
- Selling Fireworks
- Sharing
- Shirts for Haiti
- Spur58
- Teen Lit Review
- The Kid In Me
- The Need is the Call
- things I want to remember not to forget
- Things that make me go hmmmmm
- Tired
- TOO FUNNY!
- Traveling to Texas
- Trisomy 18
- Uncategorized
- Who's Reading?
- Wordless Wednesday
- Works for me Wednesday
- Youngest Boyism
Oh we do this too! When the skirts get a little too short, a pair of capri pants or leggings can get another whole season out of a dress!
By: Lady Why on September 26, 2007
at 3:52 am
Great idea!
By: My Twenty Cents Keeps Moving on September 26, 2007
at 4:09 am
GREAT idea! Isn’t it fun when you get extra use out of things! This also works with pants – long pants to capri pants to pedal pushers if they still fit in the waist!
Mrs. Brownstone @ XBOX Wife
http://xboxwife.blogspot.com/
By: xboxwife on September 26, 2007
at 4:19 am
AWESOME! I’ve just been gathering up my daughter’s dresses to store them away for a future daughter. But now I’ll keep them out a little while longer. I know she doesn’t want to let a bunch of them go yet. Thanks!
By: Nikki on September 26, 2007
at 5:01 am
Certainly a good tip. Nothing like extending the wear of clothes as much as possible. I have a whole list of clothing/shoe items my children need this fall. Sigh, it’s hard to keep a family of five children happily attired.
Thanks for sharing.
Duckabush Blog
By: Kathy in WA on September 26, 2007
at 6:05 am
Love it! And it is perfect now because even if the sleeves *are* a little short, with 3/4 sleeves being so popular these days, it would still be really cute!
By: Julie from Seeking The Old Paths on September 26, 2007
at 12:00 pm
Great idea–and so in-style now!
By: SAHMmy Says on September 26, 2007
at 2:16 pm
I started doing this for Alexis this past summer. She was actually excited about it! Anoe of course is still in the stage that she’ll whatever I want her to. I love this stage! Wish they could stay this way instead of turning into emotional, back talking, drama queen 4th graders. OK well at least that’s what going on in my house!
By: Amanda on September 26, 2007
at 2:32 pm
Great tip!
By: Linda on September 26, 2007
at 2:33 pm
And when they have truly grown out of those favorites dresses, and you have no little lovey to whom to pass them down, cut them up and make a quilt — all those favorite fabrics into a blanket that will last for decades.
By: Barbara on September 26, 2007
at 4:15 pm
oh my, i almost did this one! we are converting 6 dresses to long shirts this winter!
By: stacey on September 27, 2007
at 2:14 am
That’s a great idea!! I will start doing that with my daughter!!! =)
By: Saph -Walk With Me on September 27, 2007
at 6:51 pm
I have pretty much stopped buying dresses with sleeves for this very reason (we have ape-ishly long arms!). I generally buy one size too big of simple a-line sleeveless dresses. They are on the long side to begin with and can be worn year round with no shirt, a short sleeve peter pan collar shirt or a turtleneck/tights, no tights. As they get shorter, we throw leggings or jeans under them. Dresses can literally last for a dozen seasons!
By: Courtney on September 27, 2007
at 8:04 pm
I love this idea! My first two were boys, so I’m still learning the rules about girls clothes and accessories. Thanks for this great tip!
By: Karen@FamilyBriefs on September 29, 2007
at 3:23 am
It’s what the girls here do too.
Especially with items they love.
By: Laane on September 29, 2007
at 10:12 am
I do this too! And with the styles being what they are, it works so well!
Great tip!
Jen @ Lords of the Manor
By: Jennifer on September 30, 2007
at 3:11 am