kind of a bad thing to do..

So, buying rare designer pieces and harvesting the fabric from them so your dream dress will fit you is wrong, right?

The virgin skirt I sacrificed to have my set fit me:

I bought this on eBay about a week ago. At first I thought that it was a fake because it's so different from MY HL skirt, but I emailed a woman who works at HL and she told me it was a real piece. And let me insist, they're VERY different. Length, construction, etc. The only thing similar about them is that they are made with the same fabric. So, it doesn't really deserve to live, and I don't feel like a bad person for chopping it up. All I've done so far is take the center seam off the back along with the zipper, leaving the 15 horizontal strips of fabric still sewn together. I'm just going to add the long ones to the back adjacent to the back seam/zipper combination that both pieces have going on. The good thing is that I can line them up and the pieces will still seem to go together. When it's a highly coveted HL set, you take what you can get, and I got it in XS. I'm a medium. I figured out that both pieces needed 6 inches added, so three one inch 'bands' on each side. It's good that HL pieces are so mathematically sound, because it makes getting this set to fit that much easier. The other awesome thing is that there are only back seams on HL pieces, so you will only be able to tell that it's been altered from the back! I'll have to add some beads to the sides of the lines of beads at the bust and move shoulder pieces over, but after that it's all mine!