iron on james dean..
@chicksdigscars (5483)
July 27, 2011 7:50am CST
a fellow mylotter gave me the idea for this discussion. she has a discussion about desinger brands. i don't really like desinger brands, gucci and llouis vuitton wouldn't really be my thing, but i like gas, and g-star, and replay, and miss sixty.. but my major money downfall is amplified tshirts, with the clash, james dean, marilyn monroe, elvis, guns and roses etc on them!
my house is like a shrine to iconic stars, i have a large canvas of elvis, a james dean framed movie still, audrey hepburn movie stills and canvas', marilyn monroe canvas, posters in frames of album covers from guns and roses and whitesnake and the clash.. so i love the tank tops and tshirts with these on them.
but i decided a few months ago to get smart.. i was spending £35 on one vest top, or one tshirt, from ebay that was amplified.. or £35 from the actual store! and it was getting beyond a joke, because i was wearing them to death and wrecking them, or else getting bored of them.. so i came up with a plan!!
i started to buy plain white, or plain black longline cotton tshirts for £3 each, or else plain white ribbed tank tops, or plain black ribbed tank tops, and buying iron on transfers from ebay for £2.50.. and it worked like a charm!!
now i have all the tshirts i want, with the pictures i want on them for £5.50.. instead of £25.
do many people customise their own clothes?
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@cupcakes_n_starrs (305)
• United States
27 Jul 11
I do on occasion. I have a printer and I found some cheap t-shirt transfer paper. When I see a picture on the Internet I print it out and iron to my plain shirt. They make the transfer paper in a kind that will transfer to dark shirt colors too! Inmade one shirt with vintage Alice and the Mad Hatters tea party on it. I also printed off a pic my favorite Graffitti artist painted. Her name is Miss Van and her work is awesome! I ironed it on a shirt in honor of my love fo her. It's rally fun to customize your clothes yourself! I've resized too big tshirts to fit and sewn a few skirts to look better. I hand sew everything because sewing machines and me don't gt along.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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28 Jul 11
haha machines and me dont go along either. heres a tip.. see if you have a tshirt you love, but its a little too small now, like round the tummy, or the shoulders or chest? cut the sleeves off, actually cut just past the seem where the sleeves are, and cut the neck off, like if its a round neck, cut round the round neck to make a bigger round neck.. you've an instant tank top and it becomes slightly baggier because it isn't pulling together for the arms and neck :)
@whispers168 (768)
• United States
27 Jul 11
I love iconic stars also.James Dean is one of my favorites!This is a good and trendy ideal to have the shirts I want while saving money!Thanks for the ideal.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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28 Jul 11
no problem! good luck! you should post a discussion with a picture of the first shirt you make :)
@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
27 Jul 11
That's really cool. I don't have time to customize my own clothes though i've been wanting to do it but i'm not very artistic and scared it might turn out disastrous. So i just buy clothes. I really like Gap, Old Navy, Levis, Lacoste, Banana Republic, etc. I have a mixed style actually. I can go from punk to classic, my style changes according to my mood.
I wear Levi's jeans or Guess mostly. I wear skirt now and then when i feel like wanting to be feminine.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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27 Jul 11
i'm the same, i like the whole punky tshirts, girlie jeans, and 50's high heels, just a real blend of everything that was fuky and cool from one decade or another lol!! you should find the time! next time you decide to do the ironing you could iron on your transfers :)
