Every woman dreams of looking fashionable and beautiful. If she is unique and unique inside, her desire to embody this in a visible image is quite obvious. Customizing clothes perfectly allows you to express your "I". At the same time, you won’t have to spend cosmic sums on designer things.
Clothing customization. What it is?
So, customizing clothes. The word sounds quite unusual and menacing. However, if you look carefully, you can be very surprised to find that almost every woman personally did this. At least from the older generation. In conditions of a total Soviet shortage, it was quite difficult to dress beautifully and in an original way. That's why I had to experiment on my own.
In general, clothing customization is a transliteration of the English word for something made to order. custom order. The term is applied not only in the field of fashion. However, women, of course, are primarily interested in things.
Directions of customization
And now in more detail. The customization of clothes is divided into three areas. Each has its own distinctive features.
The first direction is to work with old, even antique things. They are being modernized. This is usually done by professionals. Such pleasure is available at a price not to everyone.
The second direction is the participation of the client in the process of creating a certain thing. For example, many brands offer customers to personally choose a print for shoes or a bag, print their own design on any model, etc.
The third direction is in alteration and design, in the so-called "upgrade" of ready-made clothes. Or its creation from an unusual material, previously used for completely different purposes.
Industrialists and fashion designers
Young and daring designers also use clothing customization. Ideas for alterations for many of them became the start of a successful career. Some of the fashion designers have been able to find their niche by creating accessories and outfits from unusual materials, such as bags from car belts or jewelry from serpentine clasps.
Well, in general, customizing clothes, ideas and developments - all this is very extensive. Only the imagination of a person can limit this direction. It also refers to "interspecies transformations". That is, when, for example, a men's shirt made from beautiful material, altered into an elegant dress, and old sweater turns into a flirty skirt. Often, experiments are also carried out with decorating things with rivets, pins, beads, patches, holes, etc.
Advantages
In a word, there are a lot of pluses. First, customizing is a great way to bring your creativity to life. In addition, this is a very interesting hobby, organizing creative leisure. Even if you only do customization a couple of times, you will still get a lot of pleasure from this process.
Secondly, this activity allows you to give new life old or damaged items. A small spot or hole that spoils appearance any thing can be easily eliminated with the help of competent customizing with a minimum of effort, time and material costs.
Thirdly, do not forget also about environmental friendliness. Things are all used in the second circle, and this reduces the amount of production costs and waste. Moreover, lovers of such "metamorphoses" often look for materials in second-hand stores.
Meet by clothes
Fashion is a language. It can tell others about who we are and who we would like to be. Clothes serve as a way to express our feelings. In a word, it is a real means of communication. In the head of almost every woman, the question is spinning about how to look attractive and stylish, while not spending a lot of money. Customizing clothes can help with this. The master class focuses on some issues.
First you need to think about your style. This is your individuality, the unity of the image, the ability to combine incompatible things together and select exactly what will make you even more attractive.
The next step is to regularly check the contents of the cabinets. Things that are idle can be safely used to make new ones.
Explore shop windows, watch learn to knit and sew. As a result, you will learn how to create a real exclusive with your own hands.
A few simple ideas
In a word, if this topic is close to you, you should think about creating us to use customizing clothes with your own hands. Ideas can be very diverse.
For example, how can you update the whole, cute, but a little dull? Take an old lace-backed bra and rip off the cups and straps. After that, sew it neatly on the back of the waist of the shirt. Side seams, connecting the back and shelves, are slightly steamed. The edges of the lace border are sewn there. Such a thing looks very impressive, like a corset that emphasizes the waist.
Worn or holey jeans are also not out of fashion for a long time. Therefore, if you manage to plant an ugly stain on your favorite thing, just pick up a pumice stone and show a little patience. Wipe jeans, starting from the very place of the "accident". Wield the pumice stone, erasing the top threads of the material so that the base remains visible. However, in some places you can grind to more picturesque holes. The main thing is not to overdo it. You can try and make the holes with scuffs make up some kind of geometric pattern.
In any case, customizing clothes with your own hands offers a wide variety of ideas. Show your imagination, your artistic taste. Believe in yourself, don't be afraid to be original!
Soviet fashion looked too faceless and monotonous. That is why our mothers and grandmothers willingly went for advice to the Soviet gloss - "Worker" and boldly cut and altered clothes, making it individualized. Considerable savings were also decisive, but why is the world now again seized by a passion for rework - customizing?
What are the reasons for this fashion trend, which, regardless of income, nationality and worldview, influences the minds - and imaginations - of many people?
After all, the assortment of any outlets selling clothes is so rich that our mothers and grandmothers never dreamed of, and you can always find something interesting for yourself without the risk of seeing a similar outfit on another hundred people from your city?
The economic factor cannot be decisive either, because both a second-hand item and an exclusive branded product can be reworked if the person who bought it decides that it is not good enough.
The only version why the passion for customizing has become so massive is the desire for individuality, because by introducing at least minimal changes to any item of clothing, we get the opportunity to become owners of an exclusive little thing that you will not see on anyone. Plus, there is a weighty bonus in the form of an opportunity to express your creative abilities.
This is a great role for anyone to be in the role of a designer, creating a unique thing of its kind. Many will be pleased by the fact that it is not belonging to the brand that comes to the fore, but the possibility of self-expression.
Customization: from its origins to the present day
Considering that customizing is a remake, a change in a product according to a creative idea, then this kind of creativity seems to have always existed. The generation of the 90s was customizing, making cool washed jeans at home. Soviet women altered standard clothes, trying to somehow erase the facelessness that was characteristic of mass-produced goods. Moms at all times, sighing, come up with what kind of appliqué or embroidery to mask the next spot or hole - this is also customizing.
The simplest alteration is the decoration of clothes with lace, beads, artificial stones, in general, any decor. This is for absolutely everyone. Reshaping and altering, for example, a couple of T-shirts into a stylish dress, hand-painting with acrylic paints on fabric, hand embroidery - this is already the highest aerobatics of hand-made masters.
It is probably unfair to try to determine when the thought of such a remake visited a person. Another thing is that many sources give the names of those pioneers-customizers, in connection with whose creations this term was first used. It is not surprising that these were designers who used various secondary materials for their alterations.
At least the Belgian Martin Margiela, who spent a lot of time at flea markets in search of original material for the next outfit. Only he could have thought that children's socks could make a great sweater, and battered army parachutes comfortable overalls.
Even more original was Antonio Marras, who altered tailcoats for luxurious and very seductive evening dresses with an open back.
Further, it is already difficult to trace how customizing developed - rather, we can say that it spread around the world at the speed of light, conquering the hearts of those who love to create. But you can't think that customizing is only reworking old worn clothes, this is just one of its types.
Three faces of clothing customization - choose according to your taste!
The first one is exactly the one we have already mentioned - a remake old clothes, often vintage designs. It turns out very original things - old textures and finishes for modern styles.
The second type of customization is making changes to the purchased item, and it doesn’t matter if it is an exclusive branded clothing or a mass-produced sample bought at a sale. The main thing is to bring your own, individual, so that the thing differs from a number of similar ones and attracts attention.
But a third type appeared, probably under the influence of time and needs, - this is a customizing service, which is provided by many companies to the client. On the site or in the store, a potential buyer can choose the texture of the material, color and even the decor of the thing. It turns out mutually beneficial cooperation: the buyer expresses himself, taking a direct part in the creation of his thing, and the trademark, albeit following the client's lead, sells its product. Moreover, such a line of behavior is adopted by such well-known brands as Nike and Adidas. Here's what the Nike Id app page looks like.
- Workshop on generating customization ideas
Creating your own unique style by altering clothes is quite simple. Even the most unusual ideas there are no limits to creativity. Here we have an ordinary white T-shirt (or T-shirt). What could you do based on it?
The simplest thing is the decor of a T-shirt - with buttons, soutache, embroidery, appliqué, artistically made cuts in the end.
Denim without rules. Reworking a denim jacket
The first photo is a source of inspiration 
MK and photo of the author. Actually, I'm not a fan of redoing any things, but in this case, the circumstances, along with the Moon, lined up in one row. Firstly, I got really serious, and secondly, the last work with organza did not let go just like that, I wanted to continue. And thirdly, a brand new denim jacket has been languishing in the closet for three years now, which I never liked and never wore. And now his time has come!
Having cut out all the insides and leaving only the skeleton of the jacket, she put it in a bag with stones and rattled a little. In this way, I slightly broke the “hardness” of the jeans seams. But I still needed a casual shaggy. Sent the skeleton to washing machine With tennis balls. Expectations were justified. Well, then everything is simple!
She lined the inside of the jacket with double organza. All the details of the jacket in turn. I left allowances of 2.5 cm each, because in the future they were tucked up and attached. The hardest part was the sleeves. I used the cut-out denim parts as a pattern for the upper and lower sleeves. Attached organza on the front side on the shelves and back. All other details from the inside.
Anticipating a positive and not very positive reaction, I will immediately make a reservation that this is just an ideological post on ff. Perhaps there are girls who also have a skeleton in the closet, and they do not know what to do with this good. Actually there are a lot of ideas here. You can line the jacket with leather, burlap, silk, lace, interesting men's shirt, knitwear, fur, or you can generally make all the details from different textures, but here who has how much courage. 
Hello! My name is Sasha Sanochki and I run the Second Street blog dedicated to stylish and creative clothing alterations. Every day I publish 5 new articles on this topic.
I did not personally make all of these alterations without exception. But for almost two years every day, I get up at 5 am to find (before work) 5 fresh and interesting ideas on altering clothes from old to stylish, transfer them, process all the photos, making them in the same style, write a post and publish it. In two years they accumulated exactly 3000.
Every day I scroll through about 4,000 sites in the reader in search of materials, and only a third of their materials relate to handmade or fashion - I find the rest of the ideas in gossip columns, style coms, films, clips and even magazines like Forbes sometimes. I just want to have it all in one place.
I would like to show you at least a few of the 3000 ideas that have accumulated over 2 years on the site:
I decided to choose only 5 ideas for each of the popular types of clothing alterations in the last month, because it is difficult to choose from 3000 equally interesting ones). And I tried to choose those that can be shown here, without dragging a bunch of photos with master classes
So let's go:
5 t-shirt redesign ideas
1. Alteration of a vest:
I love alterations of vests). There is nowhere easier: a vest + a bowl of paint for dipping. Looks really cool.)
2. Playing with the texture of the T-shirt:
A long cotton T-shirt can be cut - by cutting out circles, and then washed at high temperature - the sections will twist and will not “creep” (just don’t wring out in a typewriter!). Wear with a dress or leggings and a T-shirt.
3. How to tag a guy:
TeenVogue and designer Erin Fetherston give the idea: put your lips on acrylic paint(fu, disgusting, yeah) - and leave an imprint boldly right at the collar of his T-shirt or shirt. After drying, it remains only to iron it with the hottest possible iron - and your ex-libris on it forever. IMHO, on women's clothing somehow not so good:
... and for men - that's it). A cute idea for faithful and tender lovers and a hot / playful one for notorious machos).
4. Shirt and T-shirt Dress:
What does it mean to combine beautifully)) - take a closer look - after all, the dress is actually a mix of shirts and T-shirts cut and sewn together.
5. T-shirt - blinds:
A $48 tutorial on converting two T-shirts into a sort of blinds T-shirt from Anthropologie can be found on the website, it's too detailed to copy.
5 jeans redesign ideas
1. Jeans from pieces:
I think that such a fit would not be easy to achieve if they were really sewn from pieces. So - most likely, these are thin summer jeans, on which pieces of other summer and thin ones that match in shades were sewn. And then cut off the bottom layer in places. In my opinion, there are only a couple of places where the main fabric up to the knees on top was really replaced in some area with another.
2. Ulyana Kim Dress:
Very beautiful combination of two types of jeans!
3. Isabel Marant Painted Jeans:
Painted jeans idea by Isabel Marant – permanent marker in hand - and go!
4. Alteration men's t shirts and jeans:
Listen, well, this, in my opinion, is just wildly cool! Something really interesting and wearable for guys. Yes, for girls too. I think that in this way you can decorate with belts both the bag and the back of the jacket.
As a bonus to the picture - a slightly rocker way to slightly increase the length of the jeans or save those that are worn out on the knees). Although with old, stretched and worn jeans, I think it will look pathetic.
It's better to use both ideas if HE decided to quit his office plankton career and finally become a rock musician. For the first concerts - the most it).
5. Bear from old jeans. Just a bear):
5 shoe redesign ideas:
1. Men's Creative Business Shoes:
It was, yes, it was already 5 times. But in this case, I liked the performance - on strict men's shoes. FROM business suit and a tie should break the patterns of impressionable partners. You say goodbye after the meeting, they leave the table to shake your hand - and, seeing the shoes, they hang) ....
2. Shredded Converse:
Shredded Converse – the famous model of sneakers - the legends of the converse family, released last year and ideally suited the hot summer of 2010). They look desperately vintage - shabby, as if crumbling on the go. Ideal for delicate girlish dresses, relaxed knitwear, denim mini shorts and skinny jeans. They became an unusual and stylish alternative to the uniform of Moscow streets - ballet flats, gladiator sandals and sandals with webbed high heels.
The next summer is promised to be just as stuffy, so it makes sense not to throw away your old sneakers, but to repeat this "chip" on your own - at the same time save $ 80 (regular Converses cost from $ 40, and the Shredded model, which is in the photo - $ 120).
Everything is quite simple, take nail scissors - and go ahead, so below I will list only a few tips “essentially” from the source (links to all sources are in the posts on the site):
1. When cutting out the rectangles between the blocks, be sure not to cut the rectangle behind the leg, on the heel. There should have remained a dense rectangular area, conceived by the manufacturer - it is he who will hold back the entire structure in the end.
2. Converse sells these models with or without a laced tongue, depending on the color. Decide which is more convenient for you. If you decide to cut - outline the same semicircle around your fingers (the same depth) as on your favorite ballet flats - and cut boldly. It should be 1-1.5 cm wide - wider than the “rubber nose” of the sneaker. It will look like this:
3. It is convenient to make “dranina” along the cuts just with your fingers. Rub the edges well between your fingers as shown in the photo below. the lining of the converse crumbles more than the top color dense fabric- therefore it is better not to rub it, only the top paint layer - it will quickly unravel itself to the width of the top layer.
3. How to decorate men's shoes thorns, but nobly:
In this case, one shoe would completely subdue me (especially if a casual jacket is on top).
4. Painting shoes with markers and paints:
Great shoe decor idea by artist Deborah Thomson. Deborah uses popular techniques with tattoo designs on shoes, and paints wedding shoes, etc. etc.
5. Shoes with Painted Soles:
The original move is not to paint the shoes themselves, but only their soles. It does not bend as much as shoe socks, for example - which means that the paint in these places will not crack. Provided high heels - and it will be seen well. For example, I always notice yellow price tags on shoes that are not torn off in these places when I follow someone along the path)).
5 Dress Up Ideas
1. Constructor: Sports Tank Back & Sexy Dress:
In my opinion, very cool! In front, for sure, is the standard "sexy kitty" - and when you turn your back - you show the world the other side of yourself - athletic and perky). And the difference in color only emphasizes it.
The jumper on top - in my opinion, looks like a strap from a cheap sports backpack)).
2. Dress with slits:
A beautiful texture and a way to revive an old dress with a second one thrown over the top. On the top dress, if it is made of acetate silk, the pattern can be "burned out" with a standard wood burner. We burned whole lace collars to each other at needlework lessons at school.
3. Luminous Paints:
Remember, earlier at VDNH, for example, in the pavilion "Culture", luminous paints for fabric were sold in departments with various luminous nonsense? In such small round plastic tubes. In addition, they are often found in various stalls, especially for some reason near the railway station).
Here's what happens if you paint clothes with them:
One of my friends used such tubes (of different colors) to paint a paisley dress with such luminous colors with such luminous colors. I just put dots of different colors along the contour of different cucumbers. Since during the day this paint is translucent, and she chose the color (and the dress is motley) - during the day it was completely unnoticeable. And at night it was a bomb! It looked very even - not at all vulgar, as elegant as possible - apparently due to the subtlety of the drawing.
4. Decorate a simple dress:
Zebra - not a zebra, a mask - not a mask ... in general, like this, with the help of an appliqué, an ordinary white trapeze dress was given an almost mystical look.
5. NedoBeckham reworked turtleneck dress by Joseph Altuzarra.
A promising new designer is Jezzef Altuzarra and his idea (he clearly sympathizes with Victoria Beckham and her models) to remake a sweater dress:
You will need:
Turtleneck in cotton jersey dress (they used American Apparel).
Two shoulder pads.
Scissors, needles and threads.
The recipe for “feel a little Wicca” is simple:
Cut off the sleeves so as to leave a little "wings" at an angle.
With the rest of the sleeves, we tighten the overhead "shoulders" on one side.
We hem them from the inside to the dress, at the same time slightly bending the edges.
5 ideas for altering jackets
1. This jacket costs $410 - and the pins in the right amount- 500-700 rubles. And every second person has a Chanel-style jacket;).
2. The idea of altering the jacket from the 2011 lookbook by Junky Styling.
3. Sheer Back Blazer:
Jacket, part of the back of which was replaced with a transparent insert. In the showroom, the top of the jacket consisted of two parts, one on top of the other: when altering your jacket, you can simply cut it off and sew on the inside of the transparent fabric pleated, sewing it into the side seams:
By the way, did you pay attention to the decor of the trousers with a ribbon?
4. Another Zara Coat:
Zara seems to have finally remembered where they started and began to do “sharp” things again. Another Zara coat in my collections is another confirmation of this.
The original reverse side of the collar - usually the skin is sewn there (besides, it allows you to keep the collar "raised" - for example, I just go like that). It can be made from a beautiful tie) - here, it seems, this is done.
5 shirt makeover ideas:
1. ASOS.com shirt redesign idea:
2. Pants - saruel from a shirt:
Shirt alteration. If everything is clear with the topic (everything was cut off at the level of pockets and on an elastic band) - then an explanation for how to make panties a la "saruel" from a shirt- see under the cut:
source material).
Having outlined a semicircle, we make a collar along it.
We steam the pockets carefully - they will interfere with the material of the shirt to drape plastically.
As a result, it should turn out like this (after you sew the hole in place of the collar):
At the waist, the design is regulated by a knot).
3. Unusually "dirty" shirt:
Brilliant, unusually soiled shirt)! In a bright cage - turquoise - purple - I will definitely repeat for myself. It will be enough, I think, to dip 6/8 into black paint on a Dylon-type fabric (it does not need to be heated, boiled, and other perversions).
4. An elegant way to downsize a shirt:
5. Hybrid:
Hybrid GMO shirts and sweatshirts from Hussein Chalayan.
5 accessories ideas
1. 0_o suddenly!
Chain on a garter for stockings.
2. Congenial Clutch:
One of the few easy-to-sew clutch bags, which only benefits from ease of manufacture. And the pattern of such a clutch is nowhere simpler and is sold in every second store - just today I bought croissants at Azbuka Vkusa, for example) - in a craft bag of the ideal size for this case.
3. Ring Bracelet:
If you have been offered 8 times and you have never returned the ring back, you can make a bracelet out of them and wear it proudly, like a savage woman, a necklace from the scalps of defeated enemies. Well, like how they draw stars on planes for those shot down in battle).
4. Shoulder straps on the coat:
To make such leather shoulder straps on a coat, leather from one glove will be enough. Another thing is that they need to be “supported” with something then - for example, with a belt made of the same leather texture.
5. Bags and backpacks from leather jackets:
We wrote many times about bags made from old leather jackets. But personally I love Firstly, backpacks, and secondly - here is such a simplified, a la masculine, style in bags:
I couldn't even choose what to show you - I liked everything so much! And the prices are quite real, not overpriced.
and for a snack 5 interior ideas:
1. T-shirt rugs:
Laura is a seamstress with more than 20 years of experience and great taste. That is why she managed to build a successful business on what many are trying to make money on: recycling T-shirts from second-hand stores into carpets and rugs.
Laura's rugs always attract attention with subtle color combinations and original shapes. 20 photos - under the cut (and there you will also find a link to the photo - a master - class on crocheting a similar rug - the main thing is there - it’s clear how to hide the ends by tying cut T-shirts together). Laura herself, in my opinion, weaves them with pigtails, after which she painstakingly sews the pigtails together ( I would like to know with what machine or foot she manages to take such a thickness). It takes her 3-4 months to make one rug out of T-shirts.
2. How to decorate the wall with old magazines:
Idea by extra budget wall decor from Irina: these strips are simply folded into tubes and flattened magazine pages pasted onto the base.
Moreover, you can decorate in this way not only the wall, but also the vases:
And photo frames:
3. Bears - pillows from shirts:
Annika Jermyn makes teddy bears out of old shirts and calls them Mr._ then the individual name of each _ and sells for $75. You can even order from your own shirt. The toys are large - 40 centimeters high and 48 - wide.
4. Pillows with interesting textures:
handmade cushion with brilliant texture. For such laborious work and $ 265 is not a pity.
Although this one, for $110, a pillow with a British flag made of leather, is no worse.
5. Cool dude, yo! Mr. Ben Venom makes patchwork quilts from old T-shirts with heavy metal prints in the same style. For connoisseurs, so to speak).
In general, I invite you all to visit the "Second Street", who are interested in the topic of alterations in clothing or interior)).
PS. Lastly, we have contests going on there, participate with your ideas, the prizes will be good)!
