RESIZE a Wedding Gown 👰🏻 TAKE IN SIDE SEAMS 👗 How to make a dress smaller DIY alteration

In this video I’ll show you step by step how to take in a wedding dress from the sides. You can use this same technique to alter most dresses and tops too!
If you have never used a sewing machine or if you’re rusty with how to thread one up, then make sure you watch this video first! • Setting up a Sewing Ma...
Welcome to Slew Living! I'm Esther and I sew stuff to support a slow lifestyle.
If you’re starting to learn about sustainable and ethical living and how to curate a more mindful lifestyle, a great step is to learn how to sew. Making your own items increases our appreciation for ‘stuff’, so I hope you find something on my channel to spark some creativity!
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Let me know in the comments if you have suggestions for more sewing tutorials or garments/items you’d like to sew from scratch or alter yourself!

[@TheJaniebabe]

Good to see you back, looking forward to seeing more when you have time and congratulations on the birth of your baby 🎉

[@SlewLiving]

Thank you!

[@stardancer119]

Lovely tutorial! I'm so happy you're making videos again! This video brings back memories of a wedding dress that I altered last year. ☺️ Looking forward to your videos on straps and hem shortening, as I'm about to do both of those types of alterations on a couple of formal gowns in the next few weeks! 💕

[@SlewLiving]

Oh this is such a lovely comment, thank you! I'll do my best to get them out soon 🎉

[@mariaraynor]

I’d be interested to see how to alter batwing sleeves to a regular sleeve and body of a dress….. thanks!
Great video btw 😊

[@SlewLiving]

Thanks! I'll pop that down for future video ideas, thanks for the suggestion 🙂

[@jeanettehendrix4013]

Would you redo the understitching or top stitching?

[@SlewLiving]

If the lack of topstitching was obvious I would redo it, and if it needed reinforcing I would redo the understitching. But in most cases it's not completely essential and in some cases can make the alteration more obvious, so really it's up to the dress sometimes!