This was my second year at Toronto's MuchMusic Video Awards and this year I
DIYed my own outfit. Stick around to the end because I vlogged some of it, and
yeah, that's Archie from Riverdale. With the help of my mom we're bringing this
tutorial for you guys for a simple but glam outfit. The color clashing red pink
combo is my favorite and also a little reminiscent of Taylor Swift circa 2016.
I have this beautiful thrifted maxi skirt that I almost gave away but luckily kept,
and I decided to turn them into wide-leg pants. Start by measuring down from the
waistband to see where your crotch rests on the pants. Then pin to mark the spot.
Then, turning your skirt inside out, pin together the side seams to keep it
perfectly half folded while you're working. Taking an existing pair of pants
pin a curve that follows the front panel. The back of my skirt has zippers so I
didn't take anything in from the back. Starting from under the waistband
straight stitch the curve. We did a few test runs so my thread didn't always
match the fabric. And this little gem of mom and I which I'm sure many of you can relate to.
Now you can cut the front and back panel splitting the skirt into pants. Another
reason why pinning the side seam is so useful. Cut until the crotch point and in
my case, until the end of the zipper. I took the hem off of the pants and then
pinned all along the inner seam. Sew from the bottom of the pant leg and you can
keep going all the way down the other leg, but what I did was stop at the
crotch, and then I flipped it and sewed all the way up from the bottom of the
other leg. I found this way was way easier when I
had to stitch the crotch together. And those are your bottoms! For the top,
you'll need about a yard of fabric, an old t-shirt of similar colors, and
elastic. Cut about ten inches up from the hem of the shirt to make a tube top. Then
cut a 12 inch wide panel of your fabric, and notch the middle as well as quarter
points for reference later. At your loosest tension, sew a straight stitch down the
top of your fabric, leaving about quarter inch on both ends. I didn't film this
part but you can then gather your fabric by pulling the bobbin thread, naturally
creating gathers. Then match up your gathered top to your tube top, making sure
they're the same width. Close your two ends into a tube top by
zigzag stitching the right sides together. Then taking your inner tube top,
you want to slip it over the gathered top so that the right side and wrong side
are touching, leaving about two inches of the inner tube above the gathered hem
for your elastic casing. Pin around, matching the side seams first and then
the notches in your top to the midpoints of the inner tube and sew all
around. Now pulling the tube top out, sew the elastic casing together, but don't
close it so you can thread your elastic through. Once you've done that you can
finish your elastic and also finish off the rest of your casing. We finished this
whole outfit in two evening, also three days before the MMVAs so big shout out
to my mama for showing me the best way to DIY this outfit and for helping me
after work during her downtime. Because of her I got to wear a fully
homemade outfit. Excluding accessories that's like $20 outfit on the red carpet.
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