How to make old clothes into new fashionable clothes

Feeling creative? Everyone has at least a few terrible shirts or pants in their closet. Use these tips to save money on new clothes, recycle your old ones and reduce your carbon footprint while changing your style:

Steps:

 

1. Dye clothes to coordinate with your existing wardrobe. Try mixing a few dyes together.

 

 

 

 2. Design a new top.

• Make a scooped, square or v-shaped neckline at the front of a top with a different neckline at the back.
• Create an opening at the front or back of a top. Add an interfaced strip of fabric to create a buttoned or laced closure.
• Cut open a shirt for a vest.

 3. Take an ill fitting shirt that you really like because of a logo.

• Just frame it.
• Cut out the logo and apply it to simple basic shirt.

4. Recycle your jeans.

• Turn old worn-off jeans into stylish shorts or bermudas.
• Cut them to slightly below the knee, and then roll them up into capris.
• Turn jeans into a skirt. Cut off the legs over the knee for a miniskirt or under it for a longer skirt. Rip the inner hemming, and glue together with fabric glue or preferably sew together.

 5. Design a new skirt.

Cut off an oversized shirt right underneath the armpit. Fold the top part inward and hem it. You might need to sew it tighter or add elastic band at the top.

• Create an opening. Add an interfaced strip of fabric to create a buttoned or laced closure.
• Wear an open skirt over another.
• Change a gathered skirt to a wrap-around skirt. Add a new waistband and ties.
• Add lace or a contrasting fabric ruffle along the opening of a skirt.

 6. Gather with casings.

• Add seam binding to the inside of a side seam or waistline. Insert drawstrings.
• Add vertical casings to the hemline of a top, skirt or dress.

 7. Design a new dress.

• Combine various tops and skirts.

• Combine the fabric of a top onto a skirt and vice versa for a coordinated outfit.

8. Design a new item. Start a new trend.

• Create a new purse or backpack.
• Use an old tank-top as a cute handbag by just sewing up the bottom.
• Design an attractive vest or halter top.
• Use the bottom of shirts as shrugs.
• Create a new hairpiece or fabric necklace.

 9. Add details.

• Add lace or crocheted inserts.
• Add pockets and patches to different areas.
• Stencil or embroider fabrics.
• Add dangling beads, ruffles or feathers to accentuate. 

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