Day 339 - Vintage men's shirt + vintage men's tie = girly shirt

Today I was interested in taking two men's items and turning them into something quite feminine. I really enjoyed this refashion a lot, and am happy with the result.

So I started off with this funky vintage op shop tie.

And this vintage shirt my husband bought about 10 years ago for a fancy dress party that was always a bit too small. I didn't let him throw it out because I thought the fabric was awesome. It had these slits at the back.

Ready to go!

First the sleeves got chopped off. Then the top of the shirt and a couple of inches below the collar.

I overlocked the underarm edges and the top edges, then made a folded over the underarms about half a cm to finish them off. Then I made a casing in the top front and back and inserted the tie. This tie was a 70's fat tie so I ended up cutting the fat end off - it was a bit too much but I'm hoping to use it for another project.

I sewed up the slits at the back, crossing over the fabric a little so that I ended up with a more feminine shape.

Once the tie was in I added a large button where I joined the tie ends. Now it's very girly!

Day 211 - Men's Shirt + Doily = Dress

I've had 3 or 4 of my hubby's old shirts hanging about for a while waiting to be refashioned.
Most of them have really trashed collars by the time he parts with them, so I decided to try one of these girls dress refashions today. The collar on the purple one is so bad you couldn't give it an op shop. It would only be a rag.

Old shirts.

First I cut off the sleeves and collar, then cut out a basic shape ( I drew it on first).

Next I sewed up the sides and overlocked the armholes.

I found an old doily, cut it in half, and decided to use it as sleeves. I turned the top over to make an elastic casing for the neckline.

Don't laugh but this is teenage me in my deb dress which was made by my Mum. The dress went all yellow being stored away somewhere but I cut off the rosettes from the shoulders and here are two of them sewn onto the dress. (OK you can laugh if you want to :-))