Oh God I have reached peak hipster
darling hey guys and welcome to another
episode of freak flipping with Ashley
the theme song never gets better but
this is a series that I do on my channel
where I turn ugly thrifted stuff into
slightly less ugly thrifted stuff or as
I like to call it puberty for clothing
Before we jump into the video I did want
to apologize if I'm lisping more than
normal
I just got Invisalign a couple days ago
and I'm still getting used to the fact
that there's a plastic torture device
inside my mouth 24/7 shout out to 12
year old Ashley who thought she was too
cool to get braces I hope you enjoyed
the zero boys that you dated while you
were in middle school onto the actual
content that you guys clicked for so
today we are doing an urban outfitters
inspired trip which I am so excited for
because you guys know I love urban
outfitters as much as the next twenty
year old who cut her bangs at home but
obviously Urban Outfitters can get
pretty expensive especially for a store
that steals like 90% of its aesthetic
from thrift new items to begin with so I
thought it would be the perfect brand to
try to recreate some of those pieces for
a little bit cheaper and also a little
bit more sustainably so the first thing
I'm gonna try to imitate is this
high-waisted vintage inspired short
because it pretty much the short than
anybody on instagram wears but these
retail for 6969 spicy dollerinos I
literally am a 14 year old boy I'm so
sorry so today I'm gonna try to DIY them
out of some thrift store jeans I got
these beauties for $8 at Goodwill and
they are a Levi's 501 all the genes of
depop girls wet dreams however the
problem with drifting vintage Levi's in
LA is first of all they are hard as hell
to find because trendy [ __ ] are
searching through all the aisles but
second of all they tend to be really
large or in men's styles so it can be a
little bit hard if you're smaller like
me to find something that fits exactly
but the good part is that if you start
with jeans that are quite oversized on
you it's much easier to make them very
high-waisted because this larger fit
already has a very large what's this
cold like the the crotch length rise it
has a very large rise already so it's
gonna help me get that ultra high
waisted like up to the belly button look
so the challenge with altering genes is
that you have so many details to avoid
and namely these four pockets so I need
to make sure that I don't take off too
much fat
from the front pockets because I still
want those to maintain their general
position but I also want to make sure
these back pockets end in the right
place so if I take all the fabric from
the sides I'm gonna end up with this
like weirdly wide-set butt situation but
if I take off all of the fabric from the
inside of the the butt crack then my
pockets are gonna run into each other
and it's going to look really weird so
I'm thinking it the optimal solution is
to take off a little bit from the sides
and a little bit from the back so that
hopefully the pockets will all balance
out to start out I think I can get away
with around an inch dart on each of the
sides without disturbing the pocket
situation too much so I'm gonna start
with that and then we'll take off the
rest of the fabric from the buttock
before I got to sewing I snipped off the
belt hoops from either side because they
were just gonna end up getting sucked
into my side darts so I figured why not
take them off right off the bat I also
cut off the pant legs this doesn't have
to be super accurate you can go and fix
the hem later
I just wanted to reduce the overall bulk
of the fabric so it would be easier to
manipulate in the sewing machine now
sewing through denim on a regular sewing
machine is a bit of a challenge I
actually broke a needle doing this so
remember to go slowly and use a hand
crank when sewing over those thicker
layers
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okay so admittedly this is not looking
too hot right now it kind of looks like
a giant denim diaper but I promise it
will get better or at least I think so
or at least I hope so cuz I have no idea
what the [ __ ] I'm doing now for the
giant ass dart pun intended kids
oh god um I am gathering all the extra
fabric to the back and really like
folding this over to make sure that I
get as close to like a flattering but
shape as possible on these things that's
gonna create this little like divot here
I'm gonna take a sharpie and mark all
the way down this nice little butt
crease and don't forget to get that top
section where you want the ways to end
oh god I feel like I'm not being very
accurate here and you want to make sure
you're going like all the way down the
booty and then hopefully about it just
kind of looks like a shat on my pants if
I sew up this line it's gonna turn into
a well fitting pair of shorts maybe
we'll see the waist is now looking
snatched however I did kind of make a
mistake in not so we directly down the
middle I don't think it would really
matter that much but it kind of looks
stupid when I got cheeks or like
asymmetrical and this ten is off to the
side now do you have proof of concept at
least I'm gonna seam rip out just the
top section of this cuz I think I did a
pretty good job at the [ __ ] area you
know if that part is doing well and then
sew it hopefully more evenly this time a
side note I did finally buy a seam
ripper but then I promptly lost it
within the next couple weeks so I'm just
gonna use scissors to cut these out so I
think the place I went wrong is laying
down this big-ass seam flat on its side
I really didn't think it would make that
much of a difference but it did end up
making the shorts a lopsided so this
time when I resew it I'm gonna stand
this up straight so that I'm sewing
exactly in the middle of the bug scene
gross look at this [ __ ] my butt is so
even you should fit pretty gaudy and
we'll love with that voice crack you're
20 years old Ashley and still going
through puberty apparently so hopefully
the last thing that I have to do to the
silhouette is to bring in the sides when
I did this I don't I kind of left it
like
because I wasn't sure what I wanted to
do with the legs but it is a little bit
triangular for my taste not trying to
use the Pythagorean theorem today so I'm
folding in the remaining fabric over
here and I'm gonna sew little darts down
the side the rest of my shorts so
they're a bit more of a straight leg
silhouette are you seeing this [ __ ]
I am a denim wizard originally I thought
I cut the hem of the shorts away too
long but I'm actually kind of satisfied
with it I would make no shorter but I
feel like it won't give me like a bit of
a diaper look I mean that's not bad
either but I'm kind of doing this like
90s mom vibe and plus I feel like it's a
bit more of a unique silhouette that you
can't just find at any basic store so to
finish up these shorts I just have to
cut off all the excess from the inside
of the themes and distress the bottom
hem a little bit so they look a bit more
worn in and a bit less like I just cut
them with a pair of scissors to distress
the shorts I'm going at it with a box
cutter Gustavo style I'm cutting
horizontal lines and then using tweezers
to pull out the blue vertical strands in
between for that classic distressed look
I didn't go too crazy with the
distressing since luckily the days of
destroyed jeggings are behind us all so
I just distressed oh god the list is
coming out I just distressed two small
holes one by the leg and one by the
pocket and here are the finished shorts
these shorts bloat up harder than I did
in middle school and that's saying
something folks my craftsmanship may not
have been perfect but honestly if that
proves anything it's just that if I can
do it with my subpar sewing skills you
can also do it I believe in you fail I'm
now available for motivational speaking
engagements please contact my manager
for rates the next thing I'm going to
try to recreate from Urban Outfitters is
a skirt that I already own this I I
spent fifty nine [ __ ] dollars on this
skirt it is a green a plaid skirt with a
little zipper detail down the front that
I thought was super cool so what's it
worth fifty nine dollars I don't know
but we're gonna try to recreate it for a
little bit less so to start recreating
that skirt I picked up this skirt for
five dollars and 49 cents from Goodwill
not exactly the same plaid pattern but
it has a similar forest green undertone
running throughout and I thought it was
kind of a groovy like houndstooth
s print
unlike the jeans the waist of the skirt
pretty much fits perfectly already thank
the Lord
so I'm just gonna start by altering the
hem to do that I'm trying on this skirt
and shimmying it up to about where I
want the new mini skirt hem to end and
then marking that length with a safety
pin next I'm trimming the skirt about an
inch below the safety pin
I found that skirt hems tend to look
best when you leave a longer seam
allowance so try to leave at least an
inch
next I'm trimming the lining about an
inch shorter than the shell to make sure
it doesn't peak out the bottom heading
over to our trusty sewing machine I'm
heading the shell first by folding over
the fabric around an inch and sewing all
the way around then I'm coming the
lining separately I have made the
mistake of trying to sew the lining to
the shell or hem them together but it
always ends up like really bunched up
and confusing so I would just recommend
hemming the two separately so everything
lays a lot smoother so here is how the
skirt is looking post hem honestly this
is one of the best hems that I've ever
sewn although that's not saying much
because the bar is pretty [ __ ] low
I'm not the best seamstress in town
let's just say that but honestly like I
do a pretty good job on this it looks
quite professional so to put the
finishing touch of our mid skirt I
bought these zippers from Joanne's they
were like five dollars each so it wasn't
too expensive so the urban one like goes
in a bit of a curvy pattern like this
but I don't trust my ability to sew on
zippers like in a curvy thing without
them getting super wrinkly so I'm trying
to figure out which positioning would be
optimal I was thinking I could do like a
little stripy look that's cute or I
could go in like a triangle or I could
do one around the top not another fan of
that I'm thinking that just one vertical
stripe looks best so I'm gonna use some
good old safety pins and pin this into
place to secure the zipper I'm sewing
two vertical lines down each side to
insure that it lays nice and flat
against the skirt and then securing the
top of the zipper with some short
horizontal stitches and this is how the
skirt turned out honestly I'm so
freaking proud of this one the zipper is
even still functional so you can wear
the skirt zipped up or sit down for like
a very marginally different look but I
don't know I thought it was cool I ended
up leaving the edges of the zipper
hanging off the ends because I liked
that zigzag pattern at the end I don't
know I thought it looked kind of edgy
was really unique obviously this isn't
an exact dupe for the Urban Outfitters
skirt but it's one-of-a-kind so to me
that makes it even better and last up I
have seen a bunch of these cropped men's
quarters it's going around I've seen
them at Urban Outfitters for around $50
I think they're really cute but they
also happen to be one of the easiest
things that you can thrift and DIY
yourself for a lot less than $50 so I
got this men's sweater for six dollars
and fifty cents from the OL thrift store
owe me and we're gonna turn it into one
of those trendy tops
since this sweater is made of a knit
fabric that can unravel
unfortunately I can't just cut a raw
edge and call it a day like I have done
to many a thrift store t-shirt instead
I'm gonna fold the sweater to the length
that I want to crop it and then sew
right below the ribbed bottom hem this
is gonna create the look of a nice
finished hem which you guys will see in
a second just continuing all the way
around making sure the heavens even and
then trimming off all the excess fabric
now when you flip the sweater back
around it looks like this and now you
have taken your warm cozy winter sweater
into a definitely less practical but
slightly more aesthetically pleasing
cropped sweater and if exchanging
practicality for a slight aesthetic
advantage is an own brand for Urban
Outfitters I don't know it is those are
all the thrift clips that I have for you
guys today thank you for dealing with my
Lisp in this video and I will see you
guys next week bye
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in the meantime I've just been trying to
medicate as much as possible you know
see Dominican ibuprofen benzocaine
cocaine the whole shebang literally
earlier today
I put in so much benzocaine in my mouth
that I opened my mouth to talk and just
like a pile of drool sellout so that's
how my life is going right now