classy shirt dress (aka karate dress)

This is the kind of dress that I wish I could get away with wearing. It seems, though, to only look good on slender, not so curvy body shapes. I definitely don't qualify right now, but even after all the baby weight comes off I still won't be able to pull it off. My daughter, however, does so brilliantly with a style all her own.

 

 

 

 I made this dress from a man's dress shirt I found at the Bargain Barn.

 I loved the linen material. The finished dress brought to mind images of a safari. Or perhaps a zookeeper. But I resisted the urge to add a silhouette of a monkey coming out of the pocket.

My daughter, on the other hand, decided the dress looked like a karate outfit and claimed it enabled her to do karate moves like the pros. When not flying her kite this weekend at the beach, she intermittently practiced karate and greeted me with "Konichiwa", her hands pressed together. Where did she even get that from?

 

This kid cracks me up.