Outfit of the Day: Upcycling

I posted this picture on Instagram about a week ago and included my upcycling project!

If you can see the tunic top that I'm wearing, believe it or not, it humbly started out as a Minnie's size 14 shift dress! My mom and I found it in a consignment store in Rehoboth, Delaware (just down the road from where I am now!) for $40! Springing at the chance for a little DIY project, she told me to get it and we would figure out how to make it work! I'm lucky because I'm small chested and this top has NO darts or extra material in the chest, but I was able to get into it!

We took the dress home and to the tailor that we trust with our favorite things. She vented the sides up about 7 or 7.5 inches to make it a much better tunic fit. She also removed the bows from the shift and voila it was a tunic for me! It's a little hard to see, but there's this rocking square neckline that's so much fun. 

An upcycling project just goes to show that you CAN very easily transition a fun piece with very little work! We transformed this dress to a tunic in a matter of days with just a teensy bit of assistance, but you could TOTALLY tackle this project on your own! Keep your eyes out for girls' dresses that you can do this to yourself!

Have you ever done a project like this? Have you transformed (upcycled) a piece of clothing to a new, fresh piece?

Happy upcycling!

xxKatie

705: Port Winsor Giveaway!

I cannot say enough "Thank You's" to Port Winsor! The gals there have been so much fun to deal with and fit in BEYOND perfectly with my 7 for 700 Giveaway!

Port Winsor is home to FABULOUS tunics and accessories for everyone!

This Wellesley Tunic is my favorite of all the choices!

The wonderful Port Winsor crew is offering a giveaway of brand new custom earrings they released LAST week that look like this:

AND a $50 gift certificate toward any tunic in-stock!

In order to win the earrings and the gift certificate, you can enter in all the following ways:

1. Follow Let's Be Preppy (1 entry)

2. Like Let's Be Preppy on Facebook (2 entries)

3. Like Port Winsor on Facebook (3 entries)

4. Follow Let's Be Preppy on Twitter (4 entries)

5. Follow Port Winsor on Twitter (5 entries)

6. Tweet at @letbepreppy and @PortWinsor about the giveaway! (6 entries)

Good luck y'all!! Also, you can keep entering all the other giveaways this week too! This one will end Friday night at 11:59pm! I hope everyone is still loving all these giveaways as much as I am!!

xxKatie

Devon Baer Designs

This tunic line is so much fun!

(How GORGEOUS is she?! A great designer AND model? Talk about a double dose!)

Really, the best way to describe this tunic is pretty! It's so feminine and delicate and I feel like I'm about to go to Palm Beach in it! I tried it on with my jeggings but I'm positive it would look just as great with white jeans too!

I am wearing a size Medium in the tunic and it fit me really well! It's a great tunic length and the shoulders hit me in the perfect place. (I'm sure my Mom is cringing at this photo how it's kinda in my closet, but hey, y'all get to see part of it now! And even my big mirror all full of different bumper stickers I've collected!)

I also think this tunic would look great with all kinds of different accessories. The mint green would look great with silver and the salmon/pink would look great with gold so I seriously don't think you can go wrong with any colors!

You can check out all the different designs on Devon's Etsy page! She's even about to release a Holiday line in about a week, so keep your eyes peeled in the next few days! Also to see the holiday line items and the most up to date photos, check out her Facebook page too!

I can't wait to wear my tunic out and about! 

Are y'all DBD fans? Do you own any pieces?

xxKatie