This is a guest post from a dear friend about how her daughter chose to alter a prom dress that she loved.
Haley tries very hard not to “conform to this world” and finding a formal dress that doesn’t do that is very difficult. We prayed before we left the day of the search and of course the Lord met our prayers above what we expected. The first store we stopped at was not even a store we were going to look for the dress at, however, she came excitedly to me holding up the dress she has on in the picture. The only difference was that it was strapless. It was so beautiful that she had to try it on…it was even more beautiful on.
Since she has such a creative mind, she began to tell me what she thought she could do to make the dress modest. I was a little skeptical, but knew once she set her mind to something, she would do her best to follow through.
On a different day, we decided to go material shopping for sleeves for the dress. We were hoping for a contrasting material. We were disappointed with our first trip, but didn’t throw in the towel because we had one more fabric store to check. On the morning of our next trip, we once again prayed for the right fabric to fix the dress modestly. Still expecting to find a contrasting material we were speechless to walk into the fabric store and find the exact material the dress was made of.
This is a second option on how the sleeves could be worn.
Haley then went to work to design the sleeves for the dress and attach them. I am so proud of not only the work that she did, but also for her heart to represent herself in a modest fashion. The Lord is so faithful to answer our prayers daily.
, a big plastic needle and yarn are perfect to learn these simple things.
These are also great to keep her busy while we do school work. I even numbered her holes so we count as we go.
