There are so many ways to quickly and easily make your own halter top and with summer coming I’m sure I’ll be making lots of them. My first one this season is a refashion made from one of those boring crew neck t-shirts that’s been hanging out in my closet since the 80′s. Seriously? Yes, seriously. I loved the color and the graphic on the front so I wanted a halter design that wouldn’t mess with the graphic and this is what I came up with. I’m not claiming to have invented this design, the triangle halter is a common halter design, but I had to figure out a way to make it work with my t-shirt and if you have a t-shirt that you want to try this with check out the step-by-step below. One thing I wanted to show you with this tutorial is a way to deal with a common problem with refashioning t-shirts and that’s that the cut edges often sag and don’t look finished. This is just one way to handle that. I’ve since made a few more of these t-shirt halters and each time I came up with a new way to deal with the saggy sides and back. I’ll post those tutorials a bit later in the month.
Once again I was so excited to get started on this refashion that I forgot to take a pic of the t-shirt before I attacked it with my scissors. Imagine a crew neck t-shirt that fits you fine but is just plain boring. Got the pic in your head? Good. That’s my before pic.
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| Not my t-shirt, but a close approximation of it. |
After a bit of playing around both on my dress form and on myself I ended up pairing a fabric belt from a pair of pants that always struck me as silly on the pants, but worked great with my new halter. Check out the finished product below.
For detailed instructions on how I got from the "before" to the "after" click on over to
Halter Top Refashioned From a T-Shirt.
3 comments:
Very clever! Love how you used a fabric belt for the halter portion. We're getting such great "zero waste refashion" ideas popping up!
Jessica
EOD
great idea! Very thrifty chic.
love~mongs
mythriftycloset.blogspot.com
I'm getting more and more into the idea of zero waste. It's a challenge to incorporate the ideal and still make it look fashionable. To that end I save every scrap with the intention of using it in some way in the future and I've found some very different ways to use things like the little strip of fabric that forms the seam between the sleeve and the shoulder, the hems cut from the bottom of t-shirts ... If you all are into this kind of refashioning I'll post how I've used some of these.
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