Make A Waistband From A Recycled Tie post 622

 Searching Ror A Replacement Waistband

Taking clothes out of storage, after moving from one country back to another, I found some old clothes. Lovely clothes. But alas, some of the skirts were too small. Maybe I had grown larger, Maybe I had made a mistake buying on the internet. I needed to make alterations. I had pleated skirts to alter, and skirts with gathers, and tight skirts with very little spare fabric. 

Missing Waistband After Alteration

I had made one skirt wider by removing the waistband and flatterning out the gathered part. When I put back or left on the waistband, half of it was missing. I could have taken off all the waistband. I decided to leave part of it at the back. Insert a small contrasting section at the front. I could have hidden the new part at the back under a long jacket, but that would have left gathers at the front. I wanted the skirt flat over my front, with more give at the back when sitting down.

Cutting The Tie

I was looking for a piece of wide ribbon to extend waistband. I noticed an old tie. The narrow end was the right width. 

I could have cut off the wide part. Or left it hanging like a codpiece in the centre front or down the side of the skirt. I decided to cut it off.

That way it was sure to look right. If I liked the hanging part, I could sew that on neatly with a horizontal join at the top, instead of diagonal. 

If I did not like the hanging piece, I had spare fabric for something else, maybe a short tie on the blouse to match the skirt's waistband.

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