Paper Dress: The Striped Fashionista

I like stripes. Black and white stripes. Colorful stripes, I like stripes on almost everything.

When I saw this outfit on a Saks 5th Ave ad, it was love at first sight. 

Unfortunately, I'm a pear-shaped lady who is barely 5'2.  And I never lost the baby weight (The kids are already 7 and 4 to be exact.) I'm not sure if I would look chic and carefree after I put these beautifully aligned stripes on.

Since Little E is learning about patterns and shapes at preschool, I thought it will be a good idea to make a paper version of this lovely outfit.

I picked out some origami paper with similar colors and drew half inch wide columns on the back.

Little E started cutting the black and multicolored stripes out.

I drew a line in the middle of a piece of poster paper. 

Little E glued the colored stripes on according to a pattern - pink, purple, red, green, blue, and yellow.

Then she glued all the black stripes on the other half of the paper.

The next day, I cut out the template for the top.

Little E glued the black stripes in the middle. 

Then we cut the colored stripes half in length to glued on both sides.

The finished top and skirt look fabulous already (I love stripes!)

Here is our 12th paper dress made together - The Striped Fashionista!

I thought our paper version isn't too shabby at all : )