Transforming a Vintage Assiut/Assuit Dress
Step One – “Before Video”
As I work on projects for my upcoming book, All About Assiut/Assuit, I’m trying to catch some photos and videos of me wearing costumes made from this fabric. In December, I had the opportunity to wear a dingy and sadly in need of repair assiut dress with lots of coins. The dress is a bit of a mess. The coins, originally gold toned, have corroded in places to black, copper, dull silver and even green. Yuck! In addition, this dress had missing coins, broken crocheted threads, tears in the mesh and was – to sum it up – a hot mess. Here I am, dancing in the “before” version of this dress before it hits the workbench and I take the shears to it for its transformation.