DIY Cut Out Shoulder Shirt

You think these trends will go away after a while, but I still love the cut out shoulder shirt as much as I did when I first saw it on Hanelli a long long time ago (in fashion years). Follow my tutorial here (equally old) but use a oversized mens shirt this time to create a dress.

Obviously I wet my pants when I found out that Miroslava Duma now does outfit posts. Does anyone else wish you could carry her around in your pocket (as she is so tiny) and pull her out when you need style advice?

Image: Buro 24/7 via Il Etait Une Fois

DIY Two Way Shirt

Found this cute Uniqlo shirt over at Shini's blog Park & Cube (literally my visual sugar). How good! If you dont have a Uniqlo near you why not make one yourself by adding some button and button holes to a shirt?

DIY Cut Out Shirt

The number of times I have posted about cut out collared shirts is more than I can count on both hands, but designers keep coming up with ways to inspire me to take some scissors to a thrifted shirt! This is a new and fun way to cut out a shirt seen in the recent Carla Spetic collection. This.has.weekend.project.all.over.it.

DIY at LFW - Bell Embellished Sleeves

Ahhhhh I love this sooo much. Take a white shirt and embellish the sleeves with crazy bells or buttons. So. Cool. I'm really enjoying all the LFW streetstyle that's filtering through, Londoners have such quirky style and I am sure that the next couple of days and weeks will see a heap of inspiration. I have to thank the lovely Shini of Park and Cube and Jen of the Style Crusader for the pics below, and for being my eyes on the street at Somerset House. I'm not even going to begin to describe how much I wish I was there again this season.

DIY Sweatshirt Cardigan

Ok so who doesn't love grey marl? Grey marl DIYs, well they're pretty much up there with my favourite things of all time. The lovely Hannah of Thursdays Child put me onto this amazing DIY (I love when my readers let me know about their favourite DIYs!). A cardigan made out of an old sweatshirt from Heart Charlie (love this blog too, her addiction to stripes is lovely).  I've done this before with a pink silk top, created a little jacket by simply cutting down the middle and stitching the edges. Simples!

DIY Blogger Discovery - Love Aesthetics

Stumbled upon the most amazing blog this morning that I just had to share with you. Ivania of Love Aesthetics has the coolest vintage style, and a whole cache of utterly inspired (and simple) DIYs. Nothing seems too difficult for her! I am particularly inspired by her two tone silk shirt, her knotted tees and bolt jewellery, the white branch clothing rack (amazing!) and the zipper jacket. Head over to her blog and take some time to enjoy its clean and simple lines, Ivania's covetable style and her ability to pull off just about any colour lipstick.

 Btw, how gorgeous are the tan leather pants?

DIY Shakuhachi Mesh Shirt

Remove the shoulder panelling of a silk shirt and replace with mesh. Easy frigging peasy.

 

Images: studded hearts

DIY Weekly - Cut Out Back Shirt

As I mentioned last week, I got a bit crafty recently and made my own version of the cut out back top, a la Christine Centenera's top from her 'My Favourite Things' shoot with Tommy Ton. It was amazingly easy to do and looks pretty sexy on.

 Inspiration:

I had a khaki silk collared shirt that I rarely wear so I used this as the basis for my top. Sorry there aren't any pics of the process, my camera was on the blink when I did this.
What I did was:
1. I put the top on and in the mirror I worked out where I wanted the cut out to sit. I tried to mirror roughly the location of the cut out on Christine's top.
2. I then cut open the shirt dreicttly across borisontally in a slightly rounded way - a bit like a very shallow eye shape. Once the cut was made the fabric drooped down really nicely so I didn't have to cut too much out.
3. I then tried on the top again to check the cut out and adjusted the cut out accordingly.
4. I then sewed the edges of the cut out with a very fine stitch, making sure to turn the edge over a couple of times so that any fraying was underneath. I made a pleat in the top running vertically down because the top flap was sticking out a bit.
5. Finally I ironed the edges of the cut out so that the stitching was less noticeable. Voila!
Might wear it with a little triangle bra next time, was alittle bit chilly with nothing underneath.

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After:

DIY Embellished Collars

The lovey bloggette from Wilma and Winston DIYed this gorgeous pearl embelished lavender shirt - cute and so easy! Just glue or sew the pearls onto the collar of a shirt and away you go. Wilma and Winston have a few great DIYs as well as a well stocked vintage store. Check it out if you have time.

DIY Cut Back Shirt

Have been insanely busy but have managed to squeeze in a little bit of DIY - thought I would let you in on the inspiration for a cut out back shirt I did on the weekend. I loved Christine's shirt when I saw it ages ago and blogged about it here. Finally got around to making it happen - pics to come soon!

 

Images: Studded Hearts / Jack and Jil

DIY Collar and Cuffs

I have such an affection for contrasting collars and cuffs on shirts - its is an easy thing to layer or you could get crafty and cut the collar and cuffs off one shirt and sew them onto another. Love the pastels in this image.

Image: The Velvet Bow

Reader DIYs!

The reader DIYs are flowing in thick and fast, I am so happy to see such amazing projects. The lovely Sophie of Owl vs Dove has done this amazing cut shoulder shirt DIY. I adore her blog and its gorgeous simple aesthetic, if you haven't checked it out you need to. Was so happy to see I had inspired her! To make her shirt she has used the simple method of cutting along the shoulder seams and then sewing the edges - letting the shoulders drop down in a really cute way! Love how she describes herself having a 'crafternoon' when she did it. I am allll about the crafternoon.

The gorgeous Carly of Chic Steals just keeps whipping up amazing DIY creations, this time perfecting the leather collared shirt DIY I did while ago here. Damn she's good. And how cute is the shirt worn with her mulberry inspired DIY skirt she guest posted here about?

 

Ps. trying to decide on a font for the blog, they all seem to hurt my eyes!

DIY Inspiration - Embellished Collar // Cut Sleeves

Two of my favourite DIYs in the one image - genius!

Image: Pixi Market via Knight Cat

DIY Lip Print Shirt

This lip print shirt, found on Anywho, is so cute and such an easy pattern to DIY. I am going to do one using  lipstick (or even paint?) and practice my kissing on a thrifted shirt to create the pattern.

Image: Anywho

DIY Markus Lupfer Tee

Running out to jump on a plane to go to Rome now, but before I do I thought I would share with you the inspiration for my recent DIY. I have loved these Markus Lupfer corset tees since I first saw them. This week I made my own using a white t-shirt, leather from my leather shorts DIY, some lace and ribbon and the all important fabric glue. Was actually harder than I thought it would be to get the dimensions of the corset right. Will be uploading images when I got back from Italy, see you then!

Image: TFS

DIY Triangle Cut Out Collared Shirt

Love the olive shirt dress, the full skirt is so feminine, and the triangluar cut outs look completely DIYable. Put it on your 'rainy sunday DIY' list. I have a feeling we'll be having a few of those in London...

Image: Jak and Jil

Looking at a few of my recent posts, perhaps I should change the name of my blog to 'quick DIYs with a collared shirt'. More diverse DIYs to come, I promise.

Cut Out Shoulders

These babies aren't going away in a hurry. And they are, like, totes easy. Something to keep in mind when DIYing this, the angle of the cut out is important to the overall look. I like the cut out on the pink shirt (third and sixth images), which goes from underneath the collar to just above the elbow. The more shoulder showing the better.  This also emphasises the collar, and I'm all about the collars. Comprende?

Image: Fashion Clique

DIY - Weekend Shirt DIY

Ever since I saw the latest Mui Mui runway show, have thought that it would be very easy to do an amazing DIY using a well-cut collared blouse. Cutting out sections and replacing them with sheer mesh/lace, and adding beads or studs. I particularly like the detail of cutting two symetrical panels along the front horizontal seam of the shoulder panel (just above the collar bone) and down to the breast. You could leave the buttons on to keep the shape. There are also many other ways to customise a collared blouse, like putting slits in the sleeves or cutting square boxes of fabric out.

Images: Outsapop/Style bubble/Harper and Harley/Studded Hearts