How to increase the size of a jacket with your own hands

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Stylish DIY clothes

We have prepared interesting ideas for you on how to change clothing parameters

and at the same time turn things into something beautiful...

HOW TO EXPAND CLOTHES

1. The item is wide, but the sleeves have become narrow? Use homemade inserts

. They can be anything: lace, embroidered or contrasting fabric.

2. If your favorite item has become too tight in width, the side inserts are damaged. The material for them can be chosen in a single color or to match the color of the main product.

3. Contrasting inserts that differ in texture and color will not only help to expand the blouse, but will also become an interesting decorative element.

4. This is how you can increase the size of your favorite blouse or tunic. To do this, add inserts on the back or shelf of the product.

5. Follow the same procedure with trousers: use side inserts along the entire length. Moreover, both from the outside and from the inside seam.

6. Have your comfortable jeans recently started to put pressure on your stomach? Make inserts in the waistband area along the side or back seam.

7. Here’s a great idea to increase the size of the dress in all respects. I already want the same for myself!

Nowadays, repairing and extending old things is not so relevant: in the era of the heyday of mass marketing, it is easier to buy new clothes than to remake old ones

. But sometimes it’s a pity to throw away your favorite thing, you want to update or refresh it. Shortening clothes is most often not difficult, but lengthening them beautifully is a little more difficult.

HOW TO EXTEND CLOTHES

1. This is probably one of the most common methods. He looks just great! Add a strip of fabric or lace along the bottom of the product. Color and material depend on your imagination.

2. This season's fashion trend is
an insert made of transparent fabric
. Place it on the hem of a skirt or light summer dress.

3. And this is an even more radical transformation of trousers

. Openwork inserts are placed not at the bottom, but in the middle of the product. To enhance the effect, you can decorate your pockets and belt with lace. Personally, I really like this option.

Alteration of clothes: how to increase the size of an item with your own hands at home?

Every housewife at least once in her life is faced with the need to enlarge her favorite thing: a skirt, dress or trousers. This problem can occur for various reasons. Clothes may become too small due to the wearer gaining weight. Also, the product may shrink after washing. When it comes to children's clothing, babies often outgrow T-shirts or pants purchased for growth. To remake a wardrobe item, you can use the services of an atelier. However, if you have experience working with a sewing machine, you can enlarge your favorite item with your own hands at home.

How to stretch knitted items

In order to stretch knitted items, you can use different methods:

First, soak the knitted item in warm water for 15 minutes, then wring it out and stretch it in the washing machine. We dry clothes only in a vertical position.
Soak the item in warm water for 30 minutes, then wring out the clothing, but do it carefully, that is, do not twist it. Place on a dry towel, twist, leave in this position for 30 minutes. We unfold and steam the item with an iron until it is completely dry, while stretching the clothing in the right places.

If a knitwear item does not stretch well, then soak it in hair conditioner.

If the proposed methods do not help to stretch the item, then you can use a special clothes expander or take it to a studio. But if the item has become small due to excess weight gain, then you should put the clothes aside until better times.

February 23, 2017

Don’t be upset, and most importantly, don’t rush to give away or write off such beautiful and beloved things as scrap. Let's approach the problem creatively and everything will work out.

To begin with, remember - if the item was sewn, do you have any pieces of fabric left from it?

If you can find the fabric, it makes the task a lot easier. All we have to do is buy more buttons and we can bring our idea to life.

And the essence of our method is an additional insert that increases our product by a size or two.

We sew a strip from the fabric we found.

Depending on how much we want to increase our item.

We attach the insert on one side, for women it will be on the left, for men on the right.

In this way we seem to increase the smell on our product. And then we sew a row of buttons on the insert that we sewed.

Thus, we increased the size of our item by the width of the additional insert.

As a result, you didn’t have to break anything or redo the hinges; you got by with a minimum of rework.

By leaving the same row of buttons in the same place, you use the buttons as decoration, and this gives the item a finished look.

If the clothes were purchased ready-made in a store and you do not have the same piece of fabric, the issue can be resolved by using any other fabric at your discretion.

Having altered jackets: how we are ready to help

The craftsmen of our studio alter any jackets - winter, demi-season, sports from drape, knitted, insulated, with or without lining. With us you can:

alter the jacket without changing the style. Those. we will simply adjust it to your figure, change the size - shorten or lengthen the bottom and sleeves, work with the side and middle seams, relief. It will sit, as they say, like a glove
order a change in cut. If necessary, we are ready to convert a men's jacket into a women's or children's jacket
making a new vest from your old jacket. You don't even need to buy more fabric for this.
alter a leather jacket. To find out more about this service, check out.

If the jacket is small at the shoulders

There is another problem: the leather jacket has become small in the shoulders. What to do and how to stretch a leather jacket at the shoulders? Vegetable oil will help us with this. Before you deal with the “unruly” item, you need to get rid of the shoulder pads, if they are included in the model of your leather jacket.

The technology is very simple:

vegetable oil is heated to a boil, after which it is applied to the leather surface with a foam sponge or flannel cloth and rubbed in thoroughly;
the jacket should be put on and worn for two to three hours, periodically lubricating tight, uncomfortable places;
If the result is satisfactory, then after stretching the leather jacket, you should lubricate it with glycerin to restore its former shine.

Naturally, dense material will require additional processing.

LONG coat - 55 photo tips on what to wear.

Good afternoon. Long coats are actively capturing the market - midi and even maxi lengths are now the hottest trend. The same length that we remember on the coats of our grandmothers and mothers in our distant childhood years has returned. But this time the long coat models are presented with the most modern designs. Let's look at what long coat is fashionable this season, as well as how and with what to wear it in order to be in trend and not fall outside the bounds of style and taste. My task is to make you fall in love with the idea of BUYING yourself a new fashionable maxi length coat.

First, we will look at what kind of long coats there are.

And then we’ll see what shoes it can be worn with, and how to combine it with other clothes.

So let's get started.

Long coat OVERSIZED CUT

For example, an oversized coat - it looks like it's a little too big for you at the shoulders and waist... like a size too big. Here in the photo below we see examples of such a broad-shouldered cut - in a mustard-blue coat, in a light brown one. We also see that a long oversized coat looks great with both autumn warm boots and thin stiletto heels.

An oversized coat can have fashionable short sleeves (as in the photo below with a beige coat and sneakers).

LONG COAT - classic cut.

Also, a women's coat with a classic straight cut can be sewn in this length. In the photo below we see just such a style of long coat. Looks good with a hat, chinos (with elastic) and stiletto shoes (photo below). By the way, a black coat looks better with a light contrasting hair color (thanks to this, white shoes have become appropriate).

A long coat looks beautiful when its bottom edge reaches the bottom edge of the trousers and leaves bare ankles, shod in beautiful stiletto heels.

LONG COAT

fitted cut.

The fitted cut of a long coat can be worn with midi skirts, with narrow long dresses to the middle of the shin - under ankle boots above ankle level. It is fashionable to wear a beautiful long maxi coat wide open. Even if the coat has a belt, you can not tie it up, but leave it hanging freely...

Or you can tie a belt around an unbuttoned coat. Or use a clip clasp (like the blue coat in the photo below).

A cowl scarf looks good with a maxi-length coat (mustard coat in the photo below).

LONG COAT in English style.

If the coat has an elegant fitted cut, then most often its length remains just above the middle of the calf. To create an elegant A-shaped silhouette, in the English style.

LONG COAT in military style.

A long coat can be sewn in a military style (black and beige coat in the photo below). Such a beautiful overcoat with almost calf length can be worn with narrow skinny trousers, including leather ones, or straight midi skirts.

Long coat with PONCHO CUT.

Another long coat style is the poncho cut. A coat that looks like a cape on the shoulders with slits for the arms. In the long version, this style is often made straight from the shoulder (or with minimal flare downwards). As decoration, use the texture of the fabric or a colored pattern on the coat (just an example from the photo of a long coat below).

Here is another example of a long poncho coat made of soft gray wool. This coat is easy to tailor yourself. His pattern is in many knitting magazines - all you need to do is take the pattern, and not knit it, but cut it out of coat fabric. The lining is not necessary (let it be soft and felt on all sides.

But the cut of the poncho for a long coat is BUT MORE COMPLICATED. Here is a beveled raglan sleeve. And the sleeves themselves have side slits for the arms. The coat is not tight. Have a hidden clasp on the inside that holds the coat's flaps together (like the yellow coat in the photo below).

Long coat WITHOUT SLEEVE.

Now the trend is a coat with a cut off sleeve - generally - along the armhole line. The design and cut of such a coat can be absolutely anything. But more often it is a classic trench coat. Double-breasted models with turn-down collar. Or minimalist in cut (like jackets) without buttons and without collars.

This long sleeveless coat can be worn with trousers and boots, with skirts and shoes. The scope for stylish solutions is limitless.

How and with what to wear

long coat

Now let's look at what you can wear with a long coat. How to combine with trousers, jeans, dresses.

Long coat

WITH CHINOS TROUSERS.

It is fashionable to wear a long coat with chinos (photo below). The trousers should be slightly tucked at the bottom. The T-shirt is casually tucked into the belt of his trousers.

Summer versions of a long coat look great with culottes. Chic culottes have been in every collection of every fashion house for many seasons now. A white coat looks good with white clothes worn underneath.

Long coat WITH JEANS

You can wear absolutely any shoes under a long coat and boyfriend jeans - the main thing here is to maintain balance... focus on the style of your blouse, shirt - that is, the clothes that are worn above the jeans. And based on the nature of this thing, choose shoes to match the image. In the photo below we see that the thin silk of the blouse allowed us to incorporate the graceful lines of wedge sandals with thin lacing straps into the image.

But ankle boots were chosen here - because you need to balance the chunky sweater with a cowl neck (photo below with a beige long coat).

But below is an example of the style - where the uneven cut lines of a soft jersey sweater and a regular T-shirt - dictated the need to combine the entire look with sneakers.

How to Wear a Long Coat

WITH DRESSES.

The length of your skirt can match the length of your coat or be longer. But short dresses can also be worn quite easily with a coat of this length.

A stylish trend for a long coat is a raised sleeve. Roll up the edge of the cuff and gather the sleeve tightly, artificially creating a three-quarter length (as on the pink and beige coat in the photo below).

WHAT SHOES TO WEAR WITH

LONG COAT

Maxi-length clothes have always gone well with heeled shoes. The long coat was no exception. The hat will complement the feminine look.

A fashionable long coat with a rough wide cut can be worn with shoes with heavy heels - powerful shoes, ankle boots with open toes and even platform sandals with wide weave straps.

A women's long coat in its cut can resemble an elongated jacket, then a semi-sporty style with wide trousers, sneakers and a shirt of a men's cut will look beautiful.

With chino-cut trousers, sports shoes (sneakers, sneakers) under a long coat are also appropriate.

And below is an example of how a gray long coat and a round hat with flat brims are combined with BALLET SHOES. And other flat shoes will work (if you choose the rest of your items wisely).

Even mules (with an open heel) will look appropriate with a double-breasted long coat if you add a hat and neat trousers with arrows. If you bought yourself a long coat, then don’t be lazy and try on all the shoes from the shakaf with it - you’ll never guess which pair will create an interesting match for your new clothes.

Here are some photo ideas for long coat styles. I hope you have already fallen in love with this ankle-length coat, or up to the middle of the shin - and you will look at the store hangers with long models with different eyes. And of course you will want to buy yourself a coat of this length.

Good luck with your choice and purchase.

Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the Family Kuchka website

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Jeans, trousers, shorts

To lengthen the shorts, you can sew lace, wide braid or contrasting fabric along the bottom. Both lace and contrasting fabric can be sewn onto the bottom of the trousers. The fabric can be made into several layers. The end result will be a kind of ruffle.

You can also sew fabric to match the jeans and sew on buttons or rivets. You will get an original continuation of the trouser leg. For sports style lovers, a good option would be an elastic band that goes along the bottom of the trousers.

If you want to decorate your jeans and give them a special stylish look, then you need to cut the legs diagonally and sew a beautiful lace insert in the middle. It looks very original and stylish.

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Required Tools

In order to fit a down jacket to your figure, you need to decide on the final size. In this case, you need to have items with which you can sew the product:

sewing machine;
scissors;
ripper;
interlining;
iron.

To begin with, you should put on the item and look at yourself in the mirror. After this, decide on the width to which you plan to fit the down jacket. Excess fabric is measured with a ruler, after which the product is turned inside out. Warm winter clothes are sewn only at the side seams. The down jacket should be turned inside out and the lining should be carefully ripped open with small scissors.

How to make a coat longer? how to stretch? (photo)

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4 January 2014, 19:27

In general, my friends know that I waited 2 weeks for a coat from Poland. And now it finally came! Everything is fine, but pl, yat, LENGTH!!! it's too short! For my super height of 178 cm, it turned out to be very short, more like a slightly long jacket.

In general, I am very upset, a friend advised me to somehow stretch it. But how? it's new, please advise something. It's all wrapped in elastic bands, maybe you can stretch them somehow?

As for the coat, what can I say. The color was not at all the same as in the picture. It is not light pink, but some kind of dirty brown-pink. generally not clear! Regarding the quality, I am pleasantly surprised here. I'm for 600 UAH. I expected worse. But no, everything is very beautifully done, correctly, nothing sticks out superfluously anywhere! I liked the quality. Especially for the price I bought!!! In terms of size, it’s also the right size (not counting the damn length!!!), and it fits great, the sleeve length is normal, although I wouldn’t mind an extra couple of cm. But they sat down well. in the shoulders too. Somehow like this.

For those who haven’t seen it, I’ll post a photo from online and my own! Girls, who may have encountered this, please help me with some advice on how to lengthen it at least a little bit. Otherwise it looks stupid on me, like it was stolen from a girl, and it’s a pity to sell it, I really wanted it, for more than 2 weeks. I was waiting. Now at least crying is so offensive! In general, I found a coat on the Internet for the first time and this is the last time I’ll go.(((

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Skirts and dresses

Fashion is constantly changing. And you don’t have to buy a new skirt or dress all the time; you can remake an existing outfit. For example, you can sew a lace stripe or some kind of transparent fabric with an interesting print on the hem. It looks quite cute and helps give the image a touch of romance.

Contrasting inserts with ornaments can be sewn onto the sleeves. Among other things, this will also help lengthen the sleeves. If desired, you can sew on lace. The outfit will turn out to be original and will definitely not be boring.

For lovers of lace and frills, you can sew a skirt from thick fabric, and sew beautiful lace along the bottom. This skirt is beautiful to wear under a tunic or your favorite T-shirt. This will lengthen the item and also make the image more interesting and original.

You can also lengthen the dress using bright inserts. To do this, you need to cut the dress into two parts so that you get a skirt and a top. Then sew a piece of fabric between these two parts. The result will be a kind of belt.