Modern fashion favors any manifestation of creativity and imagination in the production of clothing. Therefore, a dress made with your own hands from scrap materials is guaranteed success due to its exclusivity, originality and uniqueness.
Dresses made from old men's shirts turn out to be stylish and elegant. To sew a fashionable dress, you will need one shirt and a small piece of fabric, from which a narrow skirt of the future dress is cut. The fabric can have a color similar to the color of the shirt or be in a contrasting color - at the discretion and sense of taste of the needlewoman.
Dresses made from old denim shirts in combination with fabric with a contrasting texture look very beautiful.
The shirt is ironed with an iron, tried on and the cut line of its lower part is marked. If the dress is to be short, then the hem of the shirt is cut to about the level of the upper thigh. If you want to create a longer dress, you do not need to cut the bottom of the shirt at all.
For sewing a skirt, fabrics that include lycra or elastane are best suited - this will ensure a good fit of the dress to the figure. A rectangle is cut out of a piece of fabric, the width of which corresponds to the width of the front and back of the shirt, and the length is the desired length of the skirt. If there are tucks or folds on the skirt, then their size should be included in the amount of fabric consumption.
The upper and lower parts of the future dress are cleaved with pins from the seamy side, basted, tried on and sewn on a sewing machine. The seam is processed with an overlock or zigzag stitching. The finished dress can be decorated with embroidery, the collar can be trimmed with decorative braid, and overhead cuffs can be made in the color of the skirt.
A dress made from scrap materials, which does not even need to be sewn, can be made out of paper. Paper is a favorite material of many popular fashion designers who make dresses from napkins, wallpaper, cardboard packaging, or even banknotes.
To create a paper dress at home, you will need tracing paper or colored corrugated paper - these materials hold their shape well, take the desired shape and are quite plastic. To connect the elements of the dress to each other, it is best to use PVA glue or universal transparent glue that does not turn yellow when dried.
It is important to remember that corrugated paper can shed heavily and lose its shape if water gets on it.
A paper dress does not need to create patterns, but it is best to do it directly on the model in order to immediately give the desired shape in accordance with the outlines of the figure. Making a dress begins with a bodice - a wide strip of tracing paper or crepe paper is wrapped in several layers around the model's torso and glued. To give the bodice the desired shape, the paper is lightly crushed in the right places, fixing it with a strip of transparent tape.
The next strip of material is folded into an accordion or, in the case of crepe paper, slightly stretched with your fingers along one of the long sides to obtain wavy bends. The strip is glued to the bodice with one edge. Thus, a long or short, fluffy or tight skirt is formed - depending on the wishes of the model.
If necessary, a collar of the desired shape and sleeves are made from paper of the same or a contrasting color. Sleeves-puffs or "lanterns" will look most impressive with such a dress. The finished dress is decorated with decorative elements and complemented with accessories.
