Fringe T-shirt
I fell in love with this fringe t-shirt the moment I saw it at Minimarket, but at 750 SEK it was just a little too expensive. At least for a white tee as you know you´ll either get yellow pit stains or spill tomato juice on it.
Instead of saving up for that one, I went and bought two men´s t-shirts at H&M. One of which I cut fringes of, the other one which I took apart only to sew it back together with the fringes in place. My fringes are a bit more dramatic than the ones on the Minimarket t-shirt, but I guess you can buy more delicate fringes at fabric shops.
Now that I know it works, I will probably work on different solutions, possibly a dress. And since the H&M t-shirts aren´t top notch to begin with, I might try with a nicer t-shirt. Possibly different colors on the fringes. A lot of ideas are going through my mind right now…
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January 26th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
wow, how long did it take you to do this???
January 26th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Not long at all! It was much easier than I thought it would be.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Your DIY work always amazes me.
January 27th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Maybe you can get a really really big t-shirt and just cut the fringe directly on the sides and under the sleeves then sew a seam.
It’s kind of hard to describe it, but here’s a picture I drew on photoshop:
http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n266/Cecikierk/?action=view¤t=shirt.jpg
January 27th, 2008 at 3:38 am
that’s a neat idea.I’ll try it with Hanes t-shirts;they sell the irregular ones very cheap
January 27th, 2008 at 6:30 am
wow… that’s great… someone forwarded me a current tv clip about fashion hackers, and they had a public t-shirt therapy workshop
http://current.com/items/88817520_fashion_hackers
it gave me a couple ideas, although, i’d probably never do them
January 27th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Yay for honesty about pit stains! :))
January 27th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Chang, I´ve thought of that too. I think you should probably do the seam first though or it must be harder to have it fit right. It would probably look nicer than mine in the end though, a little rougher. :)
Jennine, I am receiving a book on 20 t-shirt makeovers very soon, so I´ll probably post more ideas if they are any good.
Thanks for the comments all!
January 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Wow, very original of you! Looking forward to see a picture of you wearing it. And the outfit from 26 January is cool 8).
January 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
that is such a great take on the tee from minimarket! thanks for some inspiration.-)
January 28th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
That looks great! I am planning on buying my first sewing machine soon, but will probably take a few months or even years to be able to do something like this (you see, I am a bit challenged in the crafts department).
February 4th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
oh agathe your so creative!i love the shirt. i would probarbly wreck my t-sirts trying to attempt this!
February 29th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I absalutely adore this idea and am attempting to do something (of course not as well made) like this. Before trying I just had two sort of technical questions :
First, what was the width of the strips you cut
Second, in what direction of th tshirt did you cut ( from one side to the middle or from up till down)
I know the questions may be unclear but i guess Ill try as best I can :)
p.s. your blog is fantastic! and your style, amazing!
February 29th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Zoey, make sure to not make the fringes too thin, but no too thick either. Mine aren´t all that even, from 5 mm to almost 1 cm. The fringes will curl though so you don´t have to worry about it being perfet. I cut them fron the bottom up. I also left half an inch uncut on the strips so they would stay together and cut it all the way after I had sewn them back in place. Good luck!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
please, you have to teach me how to do this shirt!!! it’s so bloody cool… and i have no idea what you’re talking about when you say you bought two separate shirts when you did it.
what do you mean by you “cut them from the bottom up”?
the only idea i can envision right now is of you cutting up one shirt, first in half and then from the “cut side”, cutting strips towards the seams of the shirt. then you would sort of attach these fringes to another shirt that you had taken apart?
i’m going crazy, because i need that shirt right now!! lol
hope you don’t mind the over enthusiasm. haha