So I took these
And I made this:
The yellow "belt" was actually a shirred part of another tank that was too short for me anyway so I just cut it off and sewed it down to work for this dress. Since the top was a tank even adding the sleeves left the neck bigger than my comfort level so I just put a black shirt on under and all was well.
I wasn't sure if I could pull it off, the hubs told me that it looked like I was wearing Curtains. But I know one sure fire way to see if it works. WEAR IT! So I did and I got Many compliments!
That evening we had a visitor to our house that saw this pillow cover, which I told him I had made out of a sweater. He smiled and said "You make pillow cases out of clothes and clothes out of pillow cases."
On the nose my good man on the nose.