Along
with the holiday season are the numerous invites to a lot of parties. With
that, the dilemma of what to wear rises. Plus, let us not forget to mention the
undying problem of living with a tight budget.
This
is the season to be jolly and to get a little extravagant in buying new
clothes, new shoes, and other new stuff to wear for the month-long celebration.
Who would want to be go to a party donning the same get-up you wore on another
bash? (It’s like having wardrobe-drought, if there’s even such a word.)
But
that’s not the case for a fine lady who has kept her budget at bay through
wearing her old clothes to different occasions. YES! You’ve read it right. She
wears her used clothes (sometimes, her mom’s or her sisters’) to different occasions,
but don’t judge just yet. She magically transforms them into something
different and classy.
Mariz,
a communication student from a known university in Cebu, saw this
vintage-looking waterfall-slash-mullet-whatever-you-call-it-skirt while she
walked by a boutique. “That dress. That’s what every girl wants,” she pointed
at it as if she was drooling all over such a beautiful masterpiece but her
happy hormones sunk bottom deep upon seeing its price tag. She sadly walked
away just like any kid who cannot bring home a toy that tickled his fancy.
To
air out her frustrations, she headed to her closet, her sisters’, and even her
mom’s. She wanted the vintage skirt so bad that she hoped for a vintage piece
from anyone’s closet collection. Of all the hanged garments, her mom’s old
duster caught her eye.
The
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) videos she watched gave her tons of great ideas popping at
every blink of her eye. Creative juices started flowing and fueled her to snip
the shear and stepped on the pedestal as she trimmed and sewed the garment into
something modern-looking and fashionable.
And viola! She saved herself from spending a hefty amount
of six hundred pesos and made her own vintage-inspired floral mullet skirt.
Thanks to her mom’s old duster which has been dormant inside the closet for
years now.
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Figure 1 ”Turned mom's super old "duster" into
a Vintage-inspired "Waterfall skirt" and stitched a cute bow tie to
add a little charm,” the satisfied fashion-designer-wanna-be gleefully said. “I
hope I won’t get scolded”, she added.
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Her experimentation did not
stop with her own version of a mullet skirt. She tried to play with dyes, too.
Flare pants are so yesterday and hers was just about to get dumped, but she
thought of doing another D-I-Y she watched online. Her favorite pair [of flare
pants] just got rebooted as she cut it short and splashed it into red and
yellow dyes.
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Figure 2 Here’s her colored and tattered denim shorts plus
a bat-inspired top from a piece of cloth she found and sewed.
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| And her favorite among her altered clothes which is her acid-washed skinny jeans. Being her preferred pair, she found it hard to let go that’s why she decided to add life to its plain hue.
Although she admits of not
being a professional fashion designer, what she wants to relay is that our
curiosity and creativity may keep us from spending on lavish things. “It would be nice to reward yourself with a new get-up
every once in a while especially that it’s Christmas season but
practically-speaking, why would I buy something when I can actually create or
customize on my own?” Mariz gives her two cents.
“If you have plans of giving presents to your friends
or loved ones, through DIY's, aside from saving, the thought of you making it
yourself for them makes the whole essence of Christmas evident,” Mariz suggests.
Get
creative and strut the D-I-Y-ied outfits you altered this Christmas!
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Photos by: Nera Mariz A. Puyo
For the published article, click here:
http://www.philstar.com/cebu-lifestyle/2012/12/07/882525/d-i-y-christmas
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