As you can imagine, after my experience with the infinity dress I abandoned ideas of turning the op shop skirt into one. It still needed altering as it was too tight. I was tempted to keep the gauze overskirt as they are in fashion right now, but it was the one part of the garment that was looking a bit old and the fabric beneath was too interesting to cover up. I removed the gauze, trimmed off some fabric at the waist and added a waistband:

You can’t really see it in a photo, but he circles are kind of refracting/glittery like the back of cds.

When I discovered that one of my little black evening bags had turned a faded grey, I refreshed it with some silver paint and a circle cut from the offcuts of the skirt fabric pinched into a bow.

The skirt and bag combo were worn to another event. I think it’s a keeper.