Thursday, September 1, 2011

Converting a Man's XL T-Shirt into a Sexy Dolman

Tomorrow I leave for Dragoncon!!! SQUEE! And, while I didn't have time to make my Jem costume this year (boo), I did want to dress appropriately. This means sporting my favorite comic book characters on my shirts. However, this leads to a slight problem. When it comes to comic book character shirts, there are only two kinds: A) Big baggy shirts designed for men and B) Skinny tight-fitting shirts designed for, well, girls who can wear skinny tight fitting shirts. I am not one of those girls. I have had a child, my friends. 'Nuff said.

But, just because the girls sag and the waist is padded, this doesn't mean I don't like feeling sexy. Enter the dolman shirt, God's gift to child-bearing woman. Seriously, I want to kiss whoever designed this thing. Here's my favorite one:

See what I mean? It's pretty hard to go wrong with this shirt. It hides the things that need to be hidden all the while maintaining a sexy feminine look. I wanted to see if I could do the same thing with a T-shirt. Here's what I did:

I took a men's XL T-shirt, turned it inside out, and laid it flat on my cutting table.


 Next, I laid my favorite dolman shirt on top of it, pinned the two shirts together, and used a water soluable fabric pen to trace the outline of my dolman on top of the tee.


 When I was finished with my outline, I unpinned the shirts and cut both the front and the back of the neck out of the tee by using the lines I traced from the neck of my dolman.
(Back neckline cut)


(Front neckline cut)

Next, I sewed along the lines I'd traced onto the tee.


 When I was finished sewing, I cut away the excess fabric.

Then I cut a couple inches off of the bottom of the shirt.


 And sewed a hem.

Talk about easy! A half hour later, I had my end result. 

(BEFORE/AFTER)


Now I'm ready for Dragoncon!!!

Have a great Labor Day Weekend!

14 comments:

  1. Very impressive! I wish I could do something like that, but I'm more of a cross-stitch girl.

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  2. Nice!!! You are crazy talented lady :D

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  3. That is super cute. I so need to learn to sew. *sigh*

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  4. What are the chances you can convert an extra large man (me) into a sexy doll man?

    Also, I'm still going to try to make Saturday night work. I can't afford to go into the paid parts of the Con, but we might just wander the lobbies taking photos.

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  5. Okay, Cole. You are just too crafty! I have to try this. I'm going to hijack someone with sewing skills. TOO CUTE!!

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  6. Wow! That turned out supercute! You are talented!

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  7. Wow, do you take commissions? (Serious question!) I have been SO FRUSTRATED that I can't get my favorite superhero (Nightcrawler!) on a female-flattering shirt.

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  8. You make sewing look simple. And gorgeous. I now want to sew. The housework will never get done. Oh, right, it wasn't getting done anyway... off to find sewing machine!
    Have a super awesome time at Dragoncon. You're getting Stan Lee's autograph right? Too Cool!

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  9. Lovely! And classic shirt choice, too. ;)

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  10. You are such a fucking bad ass chica. It was SO COOL to meet you. Thanks for being a woman I can use to show my daughters that they can do anything. You rock. Can't wait to read Katana!

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