Saturday, August 20, 2011

Day 6- Think outside the box

It is now day 6 of the 21 day challenge (15 days to go!).  So far I 've been having a lot of fun with the challenges and have picked up some really good ideas from fellow bloggers.

For today's challenge we were asked to think outside the box and wear something in an unconventional way. Wear a skirt as a dress or a shirt, a necklace as a bracelet, etc.

So I started thinking....I've seen these great ideas to make men's dress shirts into skirts.  I've also had a shirt lying around that doesn't fit my husband and have been contemplating using it to make a skirt like this:

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or maybe like this:

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But I didn't have time for that today.  However, I've also seen the idea to simply tie the said shirt around your waist to make a skirt, like this:
via pinterest

And that is what I did.  So I started with this:


And ended up with this:

Denim jacket: DKNY from Goodwill, Tank: JcPenney's from 6 years ago, Shirt: Geoffrey Beene

Not too shabby! I don't honestly think I would wear this again, but I also don't think I ever would've tied one of my hubby's old shirts around my waist without this challenge either.

Now I'm off to actually go make this shirt into a skirt!
Have a good day!

8 comments:

heidi said...

this is definitely creative! i might have to find a shirt that i can try this with! i never would have guessed that was a button-down shirt! :)

Lydia said...

Awesome! I tried to do this for the challenge, but it just wasn't working. You make it look effortless.

Saralyn said...

That's great! I'm totally trying this!

Lindsea G said...

This is super cool! I'm definitely going to try this out!

Janelle said...

I love that! I doubt my husband would approve, but it looks awesome!

These I Like Best said...

How did you do that?

Whitney said...

@That's it!
Just google turn shirt into skirt and you'll find plenty of help!

Whitney said...

Thank you so much ladies...it was fun and scary....I never knew if it would untie and just drop off or not!