Wardrobe Re-Cycle

nuttywoman

Does anyone do this, make something new to wear from stuff in your wardrobe or charity shop buys you never wear. I`ve been on a few websites looking at stuff what others have done and they`re really good items that have been constucted from old t shirts, shirts, dresses etc, plus they`re originals as well.
Although the sites are mainly in the US is there anybody on MSE who actually does it?
I fancy altering a dress of mine thats way too big on the bust,probably try and turn it into a sundress for hols.

Pink.

Hi nuttywoman,

There's a current thread on reconstructing clothes that we no longer wear so I've added your thread to it to keep all the replies together. Good luck with your project.

Pink

Mariel

I make clothes out of other clothes all the time, I've progressed from re-sizing big t-shirts (not all that successful) to making something completely different out of them. I do the jeans-to-skirt a lot too. I'm finding the more I do the more ideas come to me. Tonight I made a skirt out of a pair of jeans for my daughter - not nice jeans but a very nice skirt and it was also a new idea, I'm a very impatient sewer and it was so so much quicker and easier and looks like it will hang nicely too. I've got a band t-shirt that I turned into a tube top, didn't wear it much and now it's a hoody and I love it.
I haven't yet been brave enough to sign up for Wardroberefashion though!

luxor4t

Delighted to find this thread, as re-making is something I had got out of the habit of doing.
As teenagers Little Sis and I regularly re-invented our clothes and this continued when I was a student/ first working. Wide skirts became pencil skirts, a full length Laura Ashley fabric dress (18th birthday) was a shorter sundress (21st birthday), a coat became a jacket etc
I also made patchwork items out of the bits left over!
When the kids were small and I had stopped working my cast offs were a happy hunting ground for garments for them - DD had a coat made from my skirt, DS2 had rompers made from a light denim skirt and lined with a checked blouse (it took ages hammering the press studs!), and DS1 did a 'show and tell' on how to make shorts out of old school trousers.... then I went back to work.
Time to start again - thank you for the links, plenty of food for thought!