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Sunday 10 April 2011

Customized denimz... make it unique!



So for those of you who may not have caught on yet - the new way to have denim this season is to have it customized. Designers like Jaeger and Betsey Johnson are big fans of this craze, and considering how easy it is to achieve - so should you be! Below are a few photos I have taken of the jacket I customized - formerly a completely plain denim jacket from Topshop, modeled by my lovely sister Zoe.


First things first - I cut off the three quarter length sleeves and chopped the jacket at waist length. I then decided to gather bits / remnants and samples of fabric - literally anything I could find around the house. I found some pink PVC, skull bone printed cotton, netting and velvet amongst many other snippets that I sewed onto the jacket in no particular order, overlapping one another to get the edgy look.


To add more detail and co ordination to the jacket I firstly, found a piece of gothic rose print fabric and decided to cut out all the roses individually to sew onto the jacket. I then found an old denim skirt I had from Primark that was embellished with strips of studs. Studs are rare to come across in haberdashery stores so I decided to cut the strips off and to sew them along the collar and button holes of the jacket to make it that little bit more funky. 

I then added shearling onto the collar (which I had to hand sew as it was a little too thick for my machine), hemmed the edges and to finish it off scoured some scissors down the edges and arm holes of the jacket to give it a distressed touch.

I really cannot tell you how easy denim jackets are to customize. Their bang on trend and you can do it to suit your own individual style, making your version as rock chic, girly, vintage or edgy as you wish! Get the scissors out because I know for a fact you have an old jacket or denim shirt that could really do with this kind of TLC.

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