But, you know stores charge an arm and a leg for clothing that's super trendy and you know I'm a cheapskate. So, I kept my eyes peeled during my weekly thrift shopping mornings with my mom. I ended up finding this shirt:
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| Milla can never leave me alone, it seems! |
Wait, I know what you're thinking! You're thinking, "Please don't change a thing about that shirt. It's perfect as is!" But I assure you, it's going to look a lot better after I'm through with it!
I don't have to tell you, but I got it off the $0.50 rack (shocker!!). I fell in love with the cute burgundy square pattern on it (which doesn't photograph well at all!!)
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| Here's a close up of the little squares. |
But those sleeves!! And those shoulder pads!! No wonder someone got rid of this shirt!!
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| In case you didn't notice the shoulder pads in my first before shot... |
As you may already know, my sewing machine was threaded with black thread. The longest part of this refashion was changing the thread over to white thread!!
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| I need to get better at switching thread so I don't waste this much thread every time!! |
Anyway, back to the refashion. The first things to go were the shoulder pads:
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| Look at those monsters!! |
Don't worry, Mom, I saved them for you. I know you love big, honking shoulder pads.
Then I cut off the offending sleeves:
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| Them are some huge sleeves, Yo! |
Then I folded over the raw edge and pinned it:
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| Yay!! It looks better already! |
I wasn't too worried about folding it over a few times because I was too lazy.
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| I didn't know they even made clothing out of 100% polyester. |
Yeah, this shirt is probably from the 1970's. I probably just cut up a highly sought after vintage shirt. Oh well, no going back now!!
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| It's a post about sewing. Here's the obligatory sewing shot. |
I just want to reiterate, I hate changing the thread over from color to color. There has been so many strides in technology and improving crap that doesn't matter or actually affect anyone. Yet, replacing a bobbin in a sewing machine takes a college education and 20 years experience. My mom has a sewing machine from the 1980's. It's the same terrible threading situation as the one I just got 6 months ago. Why is this technology not updated? I don't get it.
Enough complaining. How can I complain when I look this good?!
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| I'm so gorgeous, even the snowman wants to touch my butt!! |
Ok, enough about how good I look, I need to complain again. Lol. Why is it that when I get ready to go out (grocery shopping, family parties, etc), I can't find anything in my closet that looks nice and goes together. But when I randomly grab items, on a lark, out of my closet, I end with a fabulous outfit?! I need to put outfits together like this in my real life! I love it all together.
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| Looks pretty good without the coat, too, if I do say so myself! |
I wish the pattern photographed better because those little squares are the exact color of my shoes. It's like they were made for each other.
So, I know most of my refashions aren't super exciting or even that hard to do, but I do get a lot of joy in taking something that's ill-fitting or semi-hideous and changing it into something that looks better or, dare I say, awesome (-; I also get enjoyment in that maybe it might inspire you to change up some of your clothing.
Even if I only inspire you to donate your stuff to thrift stores so that people like me can get use out of your old things that you no longer wear, it's worth it for me to keep on going.
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| I probably should've used a coat free pic, but I love it with the coat. |
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