A Green Man's Shirt From H & M For A Woman - Just Fix The Collar & Cuffs. Dress of the Day 746 by Angela Lansbury.

 


H &M label.

I bought this large man's shirt from St Luke's shop in Hatch End. Why? The shirt

 was large. Why did I buy it?  Because I loved the colour. It was new to me, a change  cheap at £1.

 I had various thoughts of what to do with it.

1 I could turn it into a tunic or dress. Turn it indide out and make it tighter down both sides. Cut off excess fabric to make a belt.

Turn it into s caftan by slitting the sides. Remove the sleeves. Make two vertical lines of stitching. Remove the collar to make a V neck.

2 Make a smaller blouse. 

3 Give it to my husband or son. 

4 Or use the fabric for a hair band, belt, and choker, or cravat. 

5 Or a shoulder bag or tote bag. 

6 Or a scarf, 

7 Cover a baseball cap. 

8 Make simple large square patch pockets on a multi colour thin jscket. 

9 Remove the buttons and sew up the buttonholes, add shoulder pads, to make an edge to edge duster coat.

I had it in an untidy pile of items to be altered, waiting beside my desk for two days. I was too busy. 

Then I had visitors and needed to tidy up. So I hung it up.

Two days later I was getting dressed in a hurry and needed a blouse under a thick fleece jumper. It would be hidden. I put it on.

That looked okay.  But the outsize cuffs annoyed me. They looked wrong. They got wet when I washed my hands.

The solution was simple. Move the buttons. Or add another button to each cuff.

I needed two extra matching white shirt buttons. The buttonholes were small. Could I add a smart decorative button?

Inside the shirt wss one spare button.

In my button box I had lots of spare white buttons with four holes.


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