Even tutorials labeled "easy" didn`t manage to catch my attention and inspire me to create something the Hungarians have a lovely word for - porfogó. Things done by oneself at home often look nice, but they also often end up as porfogós - or "dust catchers" - cluttering your space and having an eternal cluttering possibility, since they are handmade, products of recycling or "made with love" on that rainy Saturday in May.
This summer, except DIYs, also off-shoulder has been quite trendy. I have always liked this cut of dresses or shirts - shoulders are kinda elegantly erotic when revealed, unlike all other body parts. After several attempts in stores, where they have been selling mostly a particular type of off-shoulder shirt either in light blue or white, I gave up on finding such a shirt for me. Apparently, those sold in stores don`t fit people with not that wide shoulders very well. Having been compared to a coca-cola bottle once, I don`t need to explain you how well they suited me.
Luckily, one evening (not a rainy one and not in May) I found myself in the ideal mood for experimenting. It was the ideal combination of solitude, excitement and a healthy amount of not caring if everything goes wrong. That was when I decided to make my own off-shoulder shirt.
Of course I will be happy to share with you even the slightest details and best practices in making such a shirt. Initially, you will need these things:
- a supershort Youtube-tutorial, where the blogger manages to create the desired shirt in less than eight minutes. While her instruction video contains an intro, where she tells the story of the input to make a shirt like that and an outro, where she tells you how to combine the shirt, you - within the exactly same amount of time - manage to put the thread into the needle.
- a pack of tissues, anti-stress balls or chewing tobacco for moments of deep despair
- a male shirt. You can either buy it during sales-season or find it in a moment of pure luck in a second-hand store, condition: new, price: ridiculous, brand: Versace. However, you create the biggest emotional bond between you and your new piece of clothing, when you acquire the shirt from a man you have a positive relationship with. If you like a shirt of your brother, father or that stylish friend of yours, keep telling them the shirt doesn`t suit them at all and they look weird in it. You can even ask them if they have gained weight every time they wear the shirt. Once the subject is ready to throw the shirt out, guess who can come to the rescue and save the poor (but lovely) shirt from being thrown out? Yes - no one else than you!
- your new vanishing magic marker for textile. Having to test it will act as the ultimate reason to do this experiment.
You will have to follow these steps to successfully DTOSSY (do-the-off-shoulder-shirt-yourself):
1. Straighten out the shirt on a table and position a long ruler on it, so that the ruler goes under the first upper button of the shirt. Start drawing a line with your vanishing magic marker not only to mark the line where you will be cutting the fabric off, but also to start a test that will clarify if the marker really vanishes after 24 hours or not.
2. After you finish making the line, go back to its beginning and notice the magic marker vanishing right at this moment. In mild panic, cut off the fabric. You will have to improvize and maybe also pray for the cut to be precise.
3. After cutting the piece off, regret doing that and start getting used to the idea that the shirt might really end up in the trashcan at the end - only this time in pieces. Therefore, you don`t even need to bother with using a matching thread for the sewing part of this process. That`s right - just use the orange one you were using for that skirt a while ago.
4. Using the orange thread, you are sewing everything that needs to be sewn, such as the "tunnel-part" for the textile elastic band. While doing so, don`t forget about your good friend, the iron. The youtube-video doesn`t show what to do in cases, where the shirt has pleats in the back which unfold after the first big cut. Now the back part of the shirt is wider than the front part. But you can figure out how to handle this on your own!
5. After figuring it out and after you finish chewing on some tobacco or punching into something soft to calm your nerves, proceed with putting the elastic into the tunnel. Don`t forget to measure the needed length of elastic before putting it inside the tunnel. Sew the ends of the elastic together and also the little hole you were using for inserting the elastic.
6. A thought suddenly pops into your mind. Yes, you remember that bottle of white wine cooling down in your fridge. To celebrate the first success you had with the tunnel-part, pour yourself a glass. Don`t forget to hide the non-vanishing magic marker from eyesight.
7. And now, the sleeves: you can fold them up, cut them off, or cut them off and fold them up. The same applies to the bottom of the shirt - you can either leave it as it is, or cut it off and get the length you desire.
8. Try the shirt on for the first time. While standing in front of the mirror and looking yourself in the eyes and then staring at the shirt, ask yourself whether you could have spent the evening in a better way. Doing things like dusting off the leaves of your plant and such. Yep. Would have been more useful. Definitely.
9. Put the shirt away for a few days. It might get better with time.
10. Wear your new off-shoulder shirt spontaneously and of course - wear it among other people and strangers who are not obliged to lie to you once they see some unlucky DIY-attempt of yours.
11. Discover that the shirt doesn`t look that bad at all!
12. Already start lusciously looking at that awesomely patterned shirt of your brother, dad or boyfriend.
Soon...
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