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I couldn’t sleep last night. My stomach was being a pain… Literally! So I took some time to think about tee shirt refashioning, or up-cycling, or refurbishing.. or whatever you want to call it.

Since it’s almost spring…

(Clearly, it’s not almost spring.. but I digress)

Since it’s almost spring, I thought that it would be cute to turn some of my cat-eaten tee shirts into dresses for when the weather warms up. So I started Googling and found a ton of tutorials and ideas on how to up-cycle old shirts and even old knit sweaters! So many cool ideas and so many new bookmarks on my phone!

Then I saw some tutorials on how to turn a dress shirt into a dress! So I started thinking about my boyfriend’s dress shirts.. He has a lot of dress shirts and there are a ton that he doesn’t wear.

So this morning, I raided his wardrobe and used this cute tutorial from Glamzzle.com: How to Wear A Men’s Shirt Into Tube Top, Tube Mini Dress and Skirt. It’s very cute and there are some videos and lots of pictures.

I used the first video from the site and one of my boyfriend’s white dress shirts and ended up with:

The instructions tell you to button has high as you can, but if I did decide to rock this (not so much!!!), I would have to put a snapper on it, as the button location was not working out so well!

It would be much better in a larger size, as the length would be longer and the sleeves would be longer so I could make a proper bow with the sleeves, as it kinda looks like I’m wearing a towel.. Not ok. The size of this shirt is 15 1/2 – 32 (whatever that means!! lol)

The next shirt that I grabbed was a cute purple one! I had a feeling that this one would be smaller than the white one – and I was right… so the front was “you’ll-get-arrested-wearing-this-in-public” short.. From the back it could pass as a top over leggings or something, but the front just was not working:

:/ not ok. I’m really not ok with this at all!!! This was a size (S) 14 – 14 1/2

Again, if the size were bigger, it would have been much easier to work with and it would have been longer!!!

So then I grabbed the final shirt. A burnt orange coloured shirt that is (M) 15 – 15 1/2

I’ll be honest, my expectations weren’t high. But after fiddling about with it, I ended up with THIS:

BAM!!! Success!!

With this shirt, instead of having the buttons at the front, I turned the buttons to the back and grabbed the sleeves and pulled them tightly around my waist. Instead of tying the sleeves, I held them in place with this elasticated belt.

I love how the collars stands out at the front! Super cute!

The back needs a bit of work, as again, the buttons are in the wrong place so the back came down very low. I would need snappers to hold the back up, and the shirt is missing buttons on the bottom, so buttons would definitely have to be added so that it’s not inappropriate!

Cute, huh! I’ll have to go to a thrift store to find some L or XL dress shirts to work with

Or maybe I just need to raid my boyfriend’s closet some more to find MORE shirts to turn into dresses!

Tags: Dress, Dress Shirt, Refashion, Upcycle

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