Category: Refashions
Carrie Bradshaw Month 2: Scout
This is part two of a series in which I pay tribute to everyone’s favourite fictional fashionista. To read the other posts, click here.
For my next project, I chose this red and white skirt from season 4 episode 7. The location is ‘Scout’, Steve and Aidan’s bar in SoHo.
The skirt is Prada spring 2001 RTW and it was also styled with a black long sleeved top on the catwalk.
I’m making my own version from…. tshirts, of course!
Carrie Bradshaw Month 2: CARRIE’S BACK!
CARRIE’S BACK!
Yes, that’s right, ladies and gentlemen, because I enjoyed April’s ‘Carrie Bradshaw Month’ feature so much, I’ve decided to do a sequel. Only this time, it’s going to be bigger and better. The pictures are going to be shot ON LOCATION IN NEW YORK CITY!
That’s right, Charity Shop Chic is going global! :) I will be posting this series throughout this month, so stay tuned for more coming up shortly.
For my first trick I will be attempting to recreate a white jersey dress in the manner of this Halston Heritage number that she wears right at the start of the sequel. Of course, I am using my favourite source of recycled cotton jersey… old tshirts!
I picked up these two white men’s tshirts at the Cancer Research shop in Whitby for £3.50 apiece. One’s marked large, the other small, but crucially they are both completely plain.
Designs on Denim: Part 6 (of 6!)
This is the final part of the denim series, at least for now… hope you have enjoyed reading.
It’s a good old denim jacket!
Again this came from Thrift Town in San Francisco ($7.99). I had several denim jackets that I was looking at, trying to decide which one to get. I eventually settled on this Calvin Klein jacket in traditional indigo blue. It’s really well worn; the cuffs are falling apart and the collar is fraying. It’s so well worn that the denim is really soft to the touch and not at all cardboard-y. It just feels good to wear!
Designs on Denim: Part 5
It’s time for part 5 of the series! Yes, it’s another pair of jeans. These also came from the Mind shop in Whitby, but these were only £4.25.
The fit is a lot better than last week’s pair, but still, they were pretty boring and needed a bit of something special.
Out came the scissors…
Designs on Denim: Part 4
Here’s Project #4 in my denim series. It’s a pair of jeans; possibly the most unflattering jeans in the world.
I paid £4.50 in the Mind shop in Whitby for these babies.
Designs on Denim: Part 3
The third piece in this denim series is also from my massive Thrift Town haul – this time it’s a denim dress. I paid $7.99.
This dress is made of lightweight denim and has a polo-shirt style collar and cuffs. There’s a button missing too!
Designs on Denim: Part 2
This story starts with a pair of jeans.
They fit relatively well when I bought them as part of my massive haul from Thrift Town in San Francisco a few months back ($5.99). Unfortunately boot cut is not the most flattering on me… I only wear skinnies!
Inspiration for these jeans came from Isabel Marant S/S 12… aren’t they fabulous!
Designs on Denim: Part 1
Oooh, another mini-series! This one is going to be about refashioning using denim.
For my first denim refashion in this series (I have earlier denim refashions here and here), I’m working with a denim shirt. I picked this up at Thrift Town in San Francisco for $3.99.
To make this a bit more interesting, I’m adding some…. LEATHER. I put this in caps because it’s the first time I’ve worked with LEATHER and it was rather daunting…
Embroidered belt
You may remember this skirt from this project, in which I cut the waistband off and used the black skirt. Well, here’s what happened to the rest of it.
This came from the British Heart Foundation shop in Whitby and cost £3.99.
After unpicking the seam between the waistband and the skirt, I was left with the waistband attached to the facing, which was slightly longer.
Double your money
This dress was part of my huge haul from Thrift Town in San Francisco. I paid $7.99. I managed to squeeze two projects out of it, so I certainly feel like I got my money’s worth from this one!
What a fantastic print! The colours are really vivid in real life. The dress has a border print around the bottom and the green section down the front left is the only one – the back is all beige. The sewing inside is pretty basic, possibly even home made, though the seams are overlocked.
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