DIY, reduce, resize, ReFashion for Summer Beach And Travel Outfits

Are you short of summer outfits? Do you have a pair of shorts with a stained front, or a tee shirt with a stained sleeve? A great idea for re-using an unwanted or unworn t--shirt. Cut off the arms to make a tank top. Use the spare fabric from the arms to make two circular or oval designs, such as leaves for the below the waist garment. Sew your double patterns neatly by hand or machine onto a pair of shorts, as they suggest. Alternatively sew onto a skirt, or even a plain dress. 

I would use the arm pieces to make pockets. You could have two front square or semi-circular pockets on shorts or a skirt. Or side pockets.The neatly seamed armhole hem could be made into a hairband, or the front or link piece of a belt made with a long piece of ribbon or a doubled ribbon, with or without interfacing. (Interfacing is a stiffening liner used on jackets and hems and belts. 

Security

Use the spare fabric for a bag for your phone. Make a pocket on a lanyard to hold a phone. Wear under your jacket.

Use the spare fabric for a second secure pocket sewn on, with zip closure, behind a slit pocket with a top flap. 

 Useful Websites

https://www.thredup.com/bg/p/how-to-diy-refashion

Buy or sell second hand

in Singapore

https://refash.sg/

Travel shirts, Tabs, pocket, anti-pickpockets, anti-insects

The jolly, practical shirt I wore day after day on my hiking holiday was from Craghoppers. In a cheerful orange. 

Although practical, also pretty, stylish. Two styles of wearing the collar, up and down. Tab shirt so you could wear sleeves above the elbow, or fully down for more elegant evening, in air conditioning. Also handy for entering a religious building with a dress code such as a mosque (as we did in Cyprus).

Washing

The item comes with two tabs to hang it up to drip dry. No need for a hanger. A hook will do. Or hang it from the hook of a hanger on which you have another item. I could wash out the collar and cuffs overnight. Even the whole thing if you take it off at 4 pm after your 5 hour hike, and wash and dry it partially in a towel. (Or you could use the room hair dryer - but I am cautious with synthetics, not wanting to turn them back into solid plastic.)

The shirt has only one pocket, which annoys me because I feel lopsided. I don't like the look. On the other hand, no constant opening the left or the right, is it here or is it there.

The fabric is anti-insect Nosiguard. You would expect it to be called mosiguard.

After three days I discovered an inner zip, a hidden pocket, which makes it 'pickpocket proof' like the items which have that brand label. 

Search Words

I did extensive searches online. At last I found dresses. but I want a long dress. i might have to combine two blouses, or two short skirts, to make a longer dress or skirt.

Useful Websites

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Pink shirt, and other colours, with two pockets and long sleeves.

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About 28 US dollars, plus postage, for another style in white with two pockets and two hooks

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B15BSJ9H/ref=sspa_dk_detail_5?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B0B15BSJ9H&pd_rd_w=GP4kz&content-id=amzn1.sym.WEVMVEhIOCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbCZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

https://www.amazon.com/Protection-Convertible-Camping-Fishing-Sailing/dp/B07ZQZNVGR/ref=sr_1_20?keywords=ExOfficio%2BInsect%2BShield

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