Does anyone have any experience "personalizing" tee shirts by ripping/sewing them?

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Okay, a wierd question I guess, but here is my explaination. My husband bought me a tee-shirt. (A pearl jam shirt) and because Rock-band tee shirts so often come in men’s sizes, he bought me a medium.

Here are the problems as I see them.

  1. Because it is a men’s medium, the chest circumference fits me well, but it is much too long on me. It completely covers my butt and thighs. (and I am not “hip” enough to wear it as a dress) In fact, it gets a bit tight around my hips so it really bugs me.

  2. It is a “Ringer” tee. Meaning, that while the teeshirt is black, it has a white collar and white bands around the sleeves. I don’t like this feature either. It makes the neck and sleeves feel tight, and I think looks especially silly on me since the sleeve length (short sleeved) aren’t very well proportioned for a woman.

Okay, so I was thinking maybe I could just cut or tear it up and make it wearable? make a v-neck out of it? make it sleeveless? I am not a good seamstress however, so whatever I do will have to end up looking “Funky” not “perfectly tailored”.

Does anyone have any experience with this or know any websites to turn to for instructions?

This is probably way too random to get any responses but if you CAN help, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks
Evo

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try using a razor blade on the sleeves and waist. Just slit the sleeves from the shoulder on down to give it a sort of fringed effect and just do the same thing with body of the shirt as well. You can even add beads to it if you like.

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Am I right that I won’t be able to wash it then afterward or it will fray like crazy? I guess I can handwash and line dry. Gosh I am so lazy.

Evo

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Do you own a pair of pinking shears? If you cut off the collar, cuffs and waistband with pinking shears, they won’t fray as much.

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You could do what this one lady did that I used to work with. She cut off the sleeves and cut slits all along the bottom to make tassles.

Oh, and did I mention that she was fat and stinky and didn’t shave her armpits, and by “working with her” I mean running a fireworks stand in the blazing heat of summer outside in a tent with no fans?