Tailored clothes before and after

Please note: I enjoy sharing my before and after alteration posts to give others an idea of what the magic of a good tailor...

Pant Waist - Having to constantly pull up your pants can be really annoying and embarrassing. Save yourself from the inconvenience and embarrassment by learning how to alter your too-big pants and jeans! To alter the waistline, all you need is to alter from the center back of the pants. You need to remove the belt loop first, then measure how much fabric you need to take out. Use pins to mark the point you want to be altered, then sew from there.

Today's alteration comes in the form of pleats. Once again, I'm starting with a button-up blouse that's too large for me now. With the shirt right-side-out and laying flat on my ironing board, I pinched the fabric along a line about half an inch to an inch away from one of the darts. Then I folded the fabric over so that pinched line was now even with the dart. I pinned it in place and ran a line of top-stitching all the way down on top of the fold. I repeated this process on the other side…

Before and after jacket tailoring.

Today I’m going to share with you all my experience with tailoring a button up shirt. Like many women out there, I have a difficult shape to find clothes for. M…

I’ve been loving this DIY 2-piece “dress,” and the idea crept into my head to refashion this Kate Spade fan print dress into something similar.

The beauty of dressing up for Halloween is that you can be absolutely anything you want. A ghost, a dragon, a zombie, your favorite musical artist, a crayon, existential dread personified, the list goes on and on! But one option that you might not have considered is a knock-off version of one of your favorite characters from a film, novel or TV series. Forget Stranger Things; this year you can be a character from “Unusual Events”! Or if you think Game of Thrones characters are overdone…

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