{"id":1719,"date":"2012-01-10T16:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:04:39","slug":"vintage-dress-assiutassuit-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/vintage-dress-assiutassuit-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Dress &#8211; Assiut\/Assuit Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Transforming a Vintage Assiut\/Assuit Dress<br \/>\nStep One &#8211; &#8220;Before Video&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I work on projects for my upcoming book, All About Assiut\/Assuit, I&#8217;m trying to catch some photos and videos of me wearing costumes made from this fabric. \u00a0In December, I had the opportunity to wear a dingy and sadly in need of repair assiut dress with lots of coins. \u00a0The dress is a bit of a mess. \u00a0The coins, originally gold toned, have corroded in places to black, copper, dull silver and even green. \u00a0Yuck! \u00a0In addition, this dress had missing coins, broken crocheted threads, tears in the mesh and was &#8211; to sum it up \u00a0&#8211; a hot mess. \u00a0 Here I am, dancing in the &#8220;before&#8221; version of this dress before it hits the workbench and I take the shears to it for its transformation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ncf5YNdV0lY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/vintage-dress-assiutassuit-transformation\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Transforming a Vintage Assiut\/Assuit Dress Step One &#8211; &#8220;Before Video&#8221; As I work on projects for my upcoming book, All About Assiut\/Assuit, I&#8217;m trying to catch some photos and videos of me wearing costumes made from this fabric. \u00a0In December, I had the opportunity to wear a dingy and sadly in need of repair assiut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-rJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}