Friday, March 10, 2017

Wardrobe Updates

I bought a pullover hoodie from the Columbia Outlet store, and a pair of jeans from Stein Mart that both needed some fixin up. Both were great deals and fit great, but both needed some minor changes.

First the hoodie, I am not a big fan of hoodies, but this one was made of a great knit fabric in a fun peach and white stripe pattern. The problem was that it drove me crazy when I wore it because it would pull up at my neck, and I was constantly tugging at it to pull it down off my neck. I decided to measure the distance from the top front of the neck to the hem, buy a jacket zipper and turn it into a zip up hoodie.

Hoodie before alterations.
This was a matter of folding the front down the middle, cutting it, turning the edges under, pinning it to the zipper and sewing on the zipper. Now when I wear it I can unzip it a bit, and no more chocking hoodie.


The problem with the jeans was not a structure problem, they were a visual problem. These jeans were suppose to look vintage and they had patches on the small front pocket and two on the leg. When these jeans were made they must have covered the two squares on the leg, then they bleached them out, and when they were done washing them out they took off the covers and the fabric underneath was still the dark blue and looked like patches. Then they covered one of the blue patches with a suede patch that matched the one on the pocket.


I took off the suede patch from the leg, I used a sandpaper block to lightened up the dark blue patches, and then added some vintage looking flower iron on appliques. I like this look a lot better!

The blue patches after sanding! My sister Lynn told me about this process.


Even with the purchase of the zipper and the appliques I still got both the hoodie and jeans for a great deal and now love the way they fit and look!

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