After the wedding day, the wedding dress is a dress that risks being locked in the closet forever. Here are the most original ways to give it a second life.
L’wedding dress it is a very important dress for which we tend to want to keep it as a souvenir. If we need space, perhaps in view of a move or simply because we want to adopt a more minimal lifestyle, it is possible to recycle it. From home accessories to hair accessories, many super chic items can be created with an elegant item of clothing.
Let’s find out all the ways to reuse a wedding dress in the best possible way while still keeping its memory in some way; here are all the most innovative ideas and the most interesting tips to give it a new shape with the technique of creative recycling.
Reuse in half
If the underside of thewedding dress it is still usable just cut the bodice for get a beautiful one skirt in tulle. However, if you feel that the result is still too elegant, especially because of the color, it is possible dye it with special colors and transform it also from this point of view. Same goes for the top. The lace bodice can perhaps be used together with a leather jacket for a more rock style.
Read also: 10 ideas for recycling an old dress
Evening dress for cocktail or party
Based on the tailoring changes that suit you best, a wedding dress can be transformed into a dress from evening or in a head from cocktail. Thanks to its natural elegance, in fact, it is a dress that can still be reused as such if some shape and some details are simplified. If instead, instead of simplifying it, you make it more particular (perhaps also using a dark and gloomy make-up) you can convert it into a dress for a theme party; for carnival or halloween transforming into the world famous corpse bride will make Tim Burton proud of you!
Jewelry and hair accessories
With the beads and decorations ofwedding dress gods can be created jewelry really details that can be held together by ribbons made with pieces of fabric of the same. The latter can also be used to create rubber bands stop tail or bands is headbands. In this way we will have personalized accessories, unique and very elegant, perhaps to use for someone else’s wedding or for a special and fashionable evening.
Pillows
Create pillows home-made is certainly not new but an original idea is to use a wedding dress to get them. The dress, in fact, can be perfect for this type of work; just cut some squares more or less large and sew them, perhaps inserting a light one padding. Certainly it will not be cushions for too uncomfortable chairs or ruined armchairs given their elegance but they will be fine for sofas refined.
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Framework or household items
If you are going to just throw thewedding dress but you still want to keep a piece of it as a souvenir, the right solution is to create a painting. It will be a very elegant and not very “tiring” decoration; in fact, you can simply cut a square of its fabric and hang it in a wooden or silver frame. The pieces that are left over can be used for some balls decorative to hang on the Christmas tree or for other household items such as doilies is placemats.
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From wedding dress to bag
A wedding dress it can also become a useful and refined one bag. Already for the wedding day it is possible to give life to one clutch bag coordinated with the dress. We are therefore talking about a patented idea already approved by most. If you get away with the art of cutting and sewing, the bag you can create will be particular and unique; in this case, other materials are also needed, which are readily available in all fabric and furniture stores. If you don’t feel like trying too hard, you can create an elegant and functional one bag.
Keep the wedding dress for future generations
If you still don’t want to get rid of thewedding dress you can keep it for some time in the closet until someone else needs it. It will certainly be comfortable for the children. First of all, a dress can be created with the fabric of the dress baptism or pretty ones tendon for the cot. Alternatively, the obvious solution is to have your daughter wear it on her wedding day or other occasions. The singer-songwriter Levante – for example – during the photoshoot for the cover of her first album (“Manual Destruction”) used her mother’s wedding dress.
Photo gallery: How to recycle a wedding dress
In the image gallery, here are all the most useful tips and the most interesting ideas on how to give new life to a wedding dress with the creative recycling technique.
After the wedding day, the wedding dress is a dress that risks being locked in the closet forever. Here are the most original ways to give it a second life.
L’wedding dress it is a very important dress for which we tend to want to keep it as a souvenir. If we need space, perhaps in view of a move or simply because we want to adopt a more minimal lifestyle, it is possible to recycle it. From home accessories to hair accessories, many super chic items can be created with an elegant item of clothing.
Let’s find out all the ways to reuse a wedding dress in the best possible way while still keeping its memory in some way; here are all the most innovative ideas and the most interesting tips to give it a new shape with the technique of creative recycling.
Reuse in half
If the underside of thewedding dress it is still usable just cut the bodice for get a beautiful one skirt in tulle. However, if you feel that the result is still too elegant, especially because of the color, it is possible dye it with special colors and transform it also from this point of view. Same goes for the top. The lace bodice can perhaps be used together with a leather jacket for a more rock style.
Read also: 10 ideas for recycling an old dress
Evening dress for cocktail or party
Based on the tailoring changes that suit you best, a wedding dress can be transformed into a dress from evening or in a head from cocktail. Thanks to its natural elegance, in fact, it is a dress that can still be reused as such if some shape and some details are simplified. If instead, instead of simplifying it, you make it more particular (perhaps also using a dark and gloomy make-up) you can convert it into a dress for a theme party; for carnival or halloween transforming into the world famous corpse bride will make Tim Burton proud of you!
Jewelry and hair accessories
With the beads and decorations ofwedding dress gods can be created jewelry really details that can be held together by ribbons made with pieces of fabric of the same. The latter can also be used to create rubber bands stop tail or bands is headbands. In this way we will have personalized accessories, unique and very elegant, perhaps to use for someone else’s wedding or for a special and fashionable evening.
Pillows
Create pillows home-made is certainly not new but an original idea is to use a wedding dress to get them. The dress, in fact, can be perfect for this type of work; just cut some squares more or less large and sew them, perhaps inserting a light one padding. Certainly it will not be cushions for too uncomfortable chairs or ruined armchairs given their elegance but they will be fine for sofas refined.
You may be interested in: How to recycle Pringles tubes in an ingenious way
Framework or household items
If you are going to just throw thewedding dress but you still want to keep a piece of it as a souvenir, the right solution is to create a painting. It will be a very elegant and not very “tiring” decoration; in fact, you can simply cut a square of its fabric and hang it in a wooden or silver frame. The pieces that are left over can be used for some balls decorative to hang on the Christmas tree or for other household items such as doilies is placemats.
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
From wedding dress to bag
A wedding dress it can also become a useful and refined one bag. Already for the wedding day it is possible to give life to one clutch bag coordinated with the dress. We are therefore talking about a patented idea already approved by most. If you get away with the art of cutting and sewing, the bag you can create will be particular and unique; in this case, other materials are also needed, which are readily available in all fabric and furniture stores. If you don’t feel like trying too hard, you can create an elegant and functional one bag.
Keep the wedding dress for future generations
If you still don’t want to get rid of thewedding dress you can keep it for some time in the closet until someone else needs it. It will certainly be comfortable for the children. First of all, a dress can be created with the fabric of the dress baptism or pretty ones tendon for the cot. Alternatively, the obvious solution is to have your daughter wear it on her wedding day or other occasions. The singer-songwriter Levante – for example – during the photoshoot for the cover of her first album (“Manual Destruction”) used her mother’s wedding dress.
Photo gallery: How to recycle a wedding dress
In the image gallery, here are all the most useful tips and the most interesting ideas on how to give new life to a wedding dress with the creative recycling technique.