Refashioning clothing is one of my favourite things to do. To take an existing piece of clothing that is no longer serving its purpose and refashioning it into something new is to me, amazing. It honours the original work done by the (oftentimes exploited) garment worker, and helps to save no longer wanted clothing from landfill.
Here I’m sharing as many refashioning projects as I can to inspire you to refashion more of your unwanted clothing into new, and much more loved, pieces.
If you saw my recent YouTube video about some of my unfinished projects, you’ll know that I have a few shirts lying around, waiting to be refashioned into something new. And then this week, while cooking a sunday roast, I realised that a simple project would be to make an apron from a man shirt, …
This tutorial on up cycling brogues into DIY mules came about after I popped onto Pinterest and searched for tutorials and found nothing. I also searched Google, and again came up empty. But why was I looking to refashion some mighty fine brogues you’re surely asking? Well, I have always wanted a pair of brogues, …
Back in December 2020, I saw a paid of Derek Lam cargo style jeans on Net-a-porter that I loved the look of, but in my head they needed to be more deconstructed and tactile. So, I set about creating the pattern for myself, and then using two pieces of denim remnants, two pairs of old, …
At the start of July my brother got married – it was a chilled out ceremony, so nothing too formal was needed in terms of outfit. I fully intended to make the Chelsea Party Dress from Amy Nicole Studio, but in the end ran out of time and made my very own DIY dress instead. …