today I'm going to show you a styling tip that every woman needs to know it's
affordable its slimming its DIY and it'll come in at under $20 hi I'm Schellea
and welcome to Fabulous 50's today I'm going to show you how to make something
like this which cost me four hundred and fifty dollars I'm going to show you how
you can make it at home yourself for twenty dollars and it's so easy you're
not going to believe it and here are all the benefits of this particular garment
it moves like magic so when you walk it kind of sort of moves with you which is
very very feminine and I love that and the other thing is it's very slimming
because the lines coming down and the drape of this fabric is really just
giving length to my body another major bonus is it covers your
belly fat so anything that you've got hiding underneath that you'd like
smoothed out can be achieved with making something like this and I'm going to
make it a little bit different length to the one that I have here just to show
you the difference of what you can make at home depending on your body shape I'm
also going to show you how to tweak it if you have a big bust and what to do if
you're smaller on top I'm going to show you how to tweak it if you've got a big
tummy it hides arms and it's just flowy and beautiful step number one is the
easiest thing you go to the store and you choose a piece of fabric this size
and you choose a fabric that has a nice drop on it and what I mean by that is
when you let it fall it just falls nicely it's not stiff and whether you're
going to make this the summer or for winter the same rule applies it's got to
have a drop and that's what gives you the beautiful drape of the fabric so
this is kind of heavy this is a little bit of a knit and it's stretchy the
first thing you do is hold it up to your neck you decide where you want this
piece the front piece to finish so on this one here it finishes quite high
and if you'd like to cover your tummy and disguise that you make the length
lower which is what I've done on this one here and I'll show you in a moment
and I like my length to come down a little bit lower because I don't like this
look here of just plain pants and I'll just quickly show you what I've done
here which is another little tip okay so I would not like to wear this just by
itself because I don't think that looks very attractive or very feminine so what
I do is just get a piece of fabric like this and it's stretchy this is fake
suede and then I wrap it around my waist
with the long bit down and a short bit here and then I tie it just like that
for me I like to just cover it up it's given me a asymmetric line here and that
brings the eye down so it makes me look a little bit taller than what I am I'm
five foot three and if you've got a big bottom it covers your bottom as well
that's just a little extra thing that I wanted to show you but that's what I do
anyway back to the top after you've found the perfect length for you and
you'll measure that out depending on your body shape you'll take the piece of
fabric and you'll fold it in half just like that
and take this part in the middle and put a pin there so you know that's the
center and the center here is going to go over your head
how simple is this this is the exact same pattern that I have with this
beautiful blue Kashmir four hundred and fifty dollar top and then we're going to
have one sleeve which is only a cut one head and neck and then another sleeve
it couldn't be simpler I'm gonna show you three different ways to wear this
okay this is what I made for 20 dollars and all I've done to those places where
I cut holes in my neck and my sleeve here and my sleeve here is just over
lock I just over locked around where the frayed edges were and that's all I had
to do if you're fancy and you know how to sew properly you can do a proper hem
on that but it's not necessary so as you can see this moves beautifully it's very
soft and flowy my arms just have the perfect amount showing so if you don't
like your arms very much and it's summer this is the most perfect thing to cover
your arms because this is all you're going to see and this is the nice part
of most people's arms and here are things that you can tweak first of all
you can tweak the neck so cut the neck you know just enough to get your head
through and start there so once you've got it on go to the mirror and stand
there and have a look at yourself and just see where it looks better with the
cut if it looks too much like it's suffocating you
cut a little bit more and if you're very large in the chest just cut a little bit
more again because you'll notice the more you cut the better it's going to
look so you can cut this right down so it's off the shoulder and you can sort
of bring it down I like to have it up high that's just how I like to wear it
but there's so many different ways because we've all got different body
shapes so cut enough to fit your head over and then start tweaking once it's
on and then you won't go too far that way another thing you can do is adjust
this height and this is about the height it was for my blue one and if that was
the case I'd wear something like this and these are just Spanx tights so they
kind of work really well with everything and suck you in which I love
and you know when you walk you've just got this beautiful goddess thing
happening and I love it that's how simple it's literally one bit of fabric
with three holes one two three plus I've got an extra bit of fabric which I cut
off the bottom here and I have also over locked the edges and if it was cold I
would fold this piece in half wrap it around my neck and loop it through and
then that's just a little bit warmer also you can take this piece put it over
your shoulder so you've got another piece of drape and take this piece tuck
it in create a different line altogether and then you've got it's just a
different thing that you can make and you can create no one else will have the
same thing I'm going to show you now how to wear it in a different way this look
can be very very summery too so I've just put white jeans on and a
contrasting color necklace and ring take this bottom edge put it up here on your
shoulder and pin it now you'll hide the pin so that you can't see it but I'm
just going to show you what it looks like and you can put a brooch there as
well but it just gives a different look and it's very very summery no matter
what you're hiding under here your big belly or your big hips or your big
thighs everything's concealed and it just all skims over your body rather
than clinging to it so if you had a very sheer fabric you could wear this over
your swimwear or you could wear it just over shorts and a singlet and at
nighttime you could wear it over a tight skimming dress now for summer you can
wear a sarong any kind of sarong just tie it so that the angle of the bottom
is going downwards in an asymmetric line take the hem and tuck it in and then you
can take your sleeve up and up so you can wear it with sleeveless and look how
beautiful that just drapes or you can take another piece of fabric
and then thread that through the neck
and that'll just give you another way to wear it and wear this sleeve down so
that would look really nice just going out for dinner and you can create any of
these looks with one piece of fabric ten minutes worth of sewing and zero
skill in cutting so it doesn't matter if you're too tall too short too wide
underweight overweight this will work for you it's just a matter of how you
wear it and you'll always feel good because
you're never going to have to hold your tummy in and you know hide the bits you
don't like I really hope that you got inspired to get creative and make
something for yourself you're going to look amazing and you're going to feel
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