skirt

AT LAST!

Posted by on Aug 14, 2009 in pants, refashion, skirt, trousers, tutorial, vintage | 1 comment

I dunno if anyone is holding their breath out there in blogworld, but here’s the tute I made on how to make a skirt from a pair of men’s trousers… This skirt is inspired by this page in Blueprints of Fashion. There aren’t any directions in the book (because it’s just photos of the pattern envelopes), but the idea is just to take a pair of mens suit pants, turn them upside down, and make a skirt out of the fabric. One could do a suit coat too, as shown, but a) I’m a stay at home mom with no need for suit coats, and b) suit coats require patterns, not...

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