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Lavender Threat thrifted/upcycled jacket
You can't have a lavender scare without a lavender threat, right? ...Right? Ha ha, represent.
The moment I saw this jacket next to a particularly striking striped dress shirt, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. Pulling it off was another thing, as it too often is. And I had to do it all ass backward, as I so often do, but I didn't want to do ANYTHING to the polka dot lining. Something about it is just so, so right. I carefully cut letters out of the back and tried to make them look as "torn" as I dared, then cut a piece of a dress shirt sleeve into the right size and shape... and fed it into one of the "letter holes" to avoiding having to tear any of the seams holding the lining to the shell. If that doesn't make sense or sounds like I made the project way more difficult than it had to be, then yes, that's right. It worked, okay, it's fine.
The little "epaulets" are actually just ancient lucite claw beads and dark amethyst beads attached to pin backs, so they can be placed anywhere. I've been keeping these claw beads for roughly forever, as it my way, and now they are finally needed to complete a little bit of joyful spite art. Perfection.
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Bury Caesar thrifted/upcycled cardigan jacket
I happened across a very cool jacket that instantly inspired an idea. I didn't know if it was going to work, granted, but challenges. The only major alteration made to the original structure was getting rid of the damn pleather piping all around the outside, then reinforcing the edge via sewing machine before letting it look a little "ragged". Similarly, the brocade letters were carefully stiffened and reinforced before I even began the process of cutting those out, so they wound up with minor frayed edges while actually remaining intact. I am very happy about the look of the whole thing, including the tie/belt. .............Though, yes, as amusing as it was for that to have turned out looking like very stylized entrails (a delightful phrase), I kind of felt like it needed some kind of ornamentation in the back so it didn't look quite so morbid. The two little sword charms on the ends were the necessary finishing touch.
Then I was left with one single leftover sword charm all by itself, so of course a necklace would make the most sense. I've had this black-coated steel hoop necklace forever and it just looked nice with the whole ensemble. Additional shiny is always good.
There are of course actual measurements and care instructions at the shop link. And, just to reiterate: I am definitely vastly under-pricing this according to how much work was done in this specific case. The same will not be done for any commissions or requested alterations.
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