DIY backless zipper dress
‘Business at the front, party at the back’ – so my boyfriend says. Here is my backless diagonal zipper dress, a recent DIY inspired by an Ashish dress which I first spotted on Park & Cube – see my progress here and here. To my surprise, it was actually a really simple to DIY. I am completely obsessed with the symmetry and that the dress scoops down naturally at the sides due to the weight of the zip. If I was daring, I could have left the zip completely undone but I don’t think anyone needs to see anymore of my white girl ghetto assssss, hence why my closest friends call me J.Lo haha.
Here a step-by-step tutorial which I hope will inspire you to DIY your own backless zipper dress.
1. All you need for this DIY is thread, pins, a sewing needle, chalk, scissors and a zip – the length of the zip is completely up to you. My dress is from a charity store in Newquay (naturally) which only cost me a couple of quid.
2. Lay your dress flat on a table and mark out with chalk where you want the zipper to sit diagonally down the back of the dress. I took a photo of this step but the chalk was showing up too pale in my photos so hopefully these other couple of photos are still a good guide for you. Try the dress on to make sure the chalk line sits nicely across your back and sits no where near your butt crack…not sexy.
3. Carefully cut along the chalk line with sharp scissors making sure not to make a cut through to the front of the dress.
4. Lay out your zip along the opening of your dress, unzip and pin into place along both sides. I chose to leave the zip exposed as it’s gold and quite chunky which I really like.
5. Starting from the bottom, hand sew each side of the zip onto the dress. I found that closing the zip as I hand sewed my way up the dress really helped creating a neat stitch. Now I am no seamstress, my hand sewing isn’t sharp and straight but remember this is a DIY, not Kate Middleton’s wedding dress so anyone can do this. Trust me.
6. The zip I chose was about 10cm too long so I snipped it at the top and sewed it together so the zip doesn’t slide off. Voila!
19 Responses to DIY backless zipper dress
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This is stunning! I love it unzipped as you are wearing it. It’s sexy but classy and highlights the most underappreciated asset of a woman’s. Amazing job!
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Lia
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHMAAAAAZING!!!
Totally amazing, wish I had a sewing machine!!
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Amazing! x
This looked amazing…I can’t do it all thumbs…but what a hot look…
This dress is utterly cool. I love how you’ve managed to make your very own Ashish dress. Incredible.
Xo
Such a stylish DIY which I can see will get a lot of wear. I try to DIY as much as I can but often find after a couple of weeks I end up throwing them out. But this is a keeper for sure! Well done. I am definitely going to try this myself
WOW! This dress is now just gorgeous.
such a good DIY. I m gonna try;)
I’m not much of a DIYer when it comes to sewing, but I LOVE this and you’ve made it seem so doable. I’m off to treasure-hunt my own soon-to-be-backless dress.
I love this DIY! I dunno if I’d be game to try it, but it looks fab on you!
xx S
You are one sexy girl, no wonder your friends call you JLo. Good to see some Monica Bellucci style. Gorgeous DIY.
Thank you so much for all of your kind words, this inspires me to keep coming up with different DIY’s for you all to have a go at (of course using something thrifted) xo
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It looks GORGEOUS!!! :O
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So cute, great job!
Veronica
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This is awesome!
You should submit this to the BurdaStyle Fashion contest on instructables.com. Contest page here -> instructables.com/contest/fashion
Love this!