Vintage Twinset | DIY

Hello Lovelies!

A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog about a shop

that a bought a vintage shirt from to turn into a 

twinset. Todays blog I am going to be showing you what 

I did and how to make it. This tutorial is super easy

and doesn't take much time!

You will need:

Sewing Machine

Plus size mens shirt

Thread in a matching colour

pins

elastic 

(enough to go round your waist)

Step 1:

Take a plus size mens shirt (I used a designer

brand as they have more length in than unbranded

shirts, unbranded may be too short depending on

how tall you are)and iron it out so that there 

are no creases.

Step 2:

Take your elastic and draw a line in pencil 

between the fourth and fifth button down.

Step 3:

Pin either side of the line and cut along it,

making sure the shirt is completely flat so

your line is straight.

Step 4:

Take the bottom half of the shirt and place it round 

the end of an ironing board and fold over a hem at the

top pinning as you go. make sure you leave enough room 

to feed the elastic through later. I folded mine an 

extra little bit at the bottom of the hem so that

 no raw edges were visible.

Step 5:

you then want to sew along your pinned hem and

feed the elastic through, attach a safety pin

to the end of it for you to pull it along with.

when you get to the end put the skirt on and 

adjust the elastic to the length you need it. then

sew it up so it doesn't come undone.

Step 6:

Take the top half of the shirt and make a hem the 

exact same as the way you did on the skirt only

it doesn't need to be as wide because there is no

elastic to put in it. At this point I also took the 

shirt in at the sides as when I put it on it somewhat

resembled a parachute. 

Step 7:

Cut the sleeves off at the seam.

Step 8:

Unpick the stitching on the inside of the shirt

and then pin a hem on just the same way as on steps

4 and 6. Repeat on other side At this point you can 

adjust the sleeves if you would like, I didn't 

as I liked the sleeves looking kind of capped on 

the edge of my shoulders.

Step 9:

Sew the Hems on the shoulders of the sleeves. 

Then neaten up anywhere that you are

unhappy with.

Congratulations! You are finished

and have successfully made a vintage twinset.

Alternately if you do not want to make you own,

you can pop along to the Cow Vintage website

(linked on my last blog) and buy one of the amazing

ones they hand make there. If you get the chance to

go to a Cow Vintage shop then make sure to look

at the Ralph lauren tie-dyed twinsets they have there,

they are honestly so nice!

Thank you for reading

Please let me know what you thought of

this blog and weaher I should do more things like this

in the future.

-Olivia