Men’s Dress Shirt Refashion
November 10, 2024I’ve always loved the concept of a refashion–taking a piece of garbage and transforming it miraculously into a chic piece. The reality however has often left much to be desired. My refashions haven’t always made it into the daily rotation–sometimes even an attractive piece would have a limited shelf-life due to certain impracticalities (a refashioned sweater into a peplum with short flutter sleeves was too cold to wear through winter). Which comes to the nub of my quandary. If you look around the web, most refashions seem to be starting with a thriftstore men’s dress shirt or otherwise oversized item…
Don’t Judge Me
Yes, I know. I didn’t even start any of the projects discussed in my previous cloth post. I swear there was a legitimate reason for me to hop over to nippori tomato on my day off a couple weeks ago,…
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A Blog is Born
The internet is populated with a multitude of social media accounts and blogs (at least for the “older” crowd of internet denizens), which would make the poor contributions of an adequate sewer unremarkable at best and superfluous at worst. Nonetheless,…
