Do you have this problem?

It seems that whenever I purchase dresses and sometimes skirts, they always fall (without fail) about 4 inches above my knee! I'm not especially tall, so it's a huge annoyance! I feel like I'm bearing everything (and no one wants that!) and I am so self-conscious about it, to the point that I just don't wear those outfits, and sometimes don't buy a dress because I know I'll never end up wearing it! Frustrating!!

I had seen on this blog an article about how you could purchase a ruffled slip to lengthen and also combat sheer dresses/skirts. And those slips look adorable, but I didn't want to have to buy one and hope it fit. I figured there had to be an easier way!

So here's how I did it (with my darling sister). 

1. Buy a cheap t-shirt a few sizes up from your normal or steal one from your husbands side of the closet (don't tell Jesse!).

2. Cut off the sleeves and across the top just below the collar (so after it looks like the second picture). 

3. Pull it on like a skirt and hold the sides and measure how long you want it to be (so you can fold down the top to the desired length taking into account the length of the exposed lace).

4. Add elastic around the waist and hem.

5. Stitch up the open sides. (and make sure you do this on the inside).

6. Add lace all around the bottom sticking out from the hem. We did some with 2 layers and some with 3. You could also do ruffles with the same fabric from a second t-shirt. We did a slip with that too and it was adorbs. 

7. Put it on under a short skirt or dress, or you could even wear it as a regular skirt if everything stitched up nice! I thought they were definitely cute enough to be regular skirts!

There you go!

It peeks out just enough to be super cute and add length to make it a little more modest and comfortable! It also helps with the bending over so you're not showing off too much, since it tends to fall more straight off the hips instead of like an a-line skirt. 

It looks like this after:

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It's helpful to make a few different colors to work with several outfits. We made black, white and grey! Super easy, cheap and very comfortable!