I love charity shop shopping! I found this little beauty in St. Vincent's in Dun Loaghaire. It once was a floor length, velvet dress. The thing about charity shopping is it is hard to find smaller sizes and when you do you are extremely lucky! The trick is to keep looking in them as much as you can for when their new stock comes in so you have the pick of the new things before everyone else does. Anyway, Charity shops are a great place to buy cheap clothes that actually are better quality fabric then the expensive brands on the high street. Also, it makes you feel less guilty about customeyesing something that cost 5 euro as opposed to something that cost 50! With this dress i first cut it to a short dress just above the knees and added black lace to the hem. It was a bit big on me so I figured instead of taking it in i would just make it shorter because then it would look flowy without swallowing me up. I found it hard to wear, the shape was just very unflattering, so yet again I cut it into a crop top and did the same thing as I have previously suggested added lace to the crooked hem.