At Oxfam the other day I found a pair of eye-meltingly orange jeans for £5.95. The only problem was, they were a huge size 14. Such problems no longer matter to me, since I own a sewing machine! Below are befores and afters.
My improvement on the last project is already considerable: this time, I made sure it tapered back out to the hips appropriately, as with the old shorts the taking-in also affected the hips and made it quite tight all round. I also kept all four pockets just fine.
I took in both sides and also the back, because so much alteration was needed. I managed very sexily to sew the belt on the opposite side to the leg, which I’m sure is just a time-old mistake that everyone makes. I unpicked and resewed it carefully. I also unpicked two belt loops that had been lost to the alteration and re-sewed those onto the outside. The jeans still require a belt for two reasons. One, because I like belts. Two, because the fly is actually fake, and there needs to be enough give to yank them down and up over my hips.
I’ve been simmering ideas for decoration in the back of my head, and this is a challenging colour. I did some stencil printing today, and that could be really successful if I stencil printed something cool onto it multiple times.
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 