Clothes I've recylced

These are some more photos of clothes that I've created. Some of them are ones I have already posted but an effect I found on my camera make's them look cooler :) 

These are some clothes that I've altered slightly. I love playing around with different ideas and using second hand clothing is the most sustainable & affordable way to do that :) 

I also had a go and selling some of the items in a handmade store so that's why you can see tags (I called the label Framont Ave.) on some of them. 

These were originally a pair of mens Hard Yakka shorts. I cut and sewed them to turn them into a skirt and then added some blue lace to the bottom as the hem was a bit short. I decided it needed something a bit more exciting so sewed together a bow out of some gold scrap fabric and tied it to the centre belt loops. 

Vintage jacket of Mum's; I added a Mr. Men ribbon (that we had as kids) so the top of the jacket cab be tied together. 

A plain brown t-shirt from Grandma; I cut the neck opening to make it larger and sewed black lace to the edges and also shortened the sleeves as they were quite baggy and long. 
I originally ironed on a black Mickey Mouse image using transfer paper but it didn't stick very well so I peeled it off and sewed some tiger print fabric  (from an old shirt of Grandma's that I cut up) in its place. 

This is a black strapless dress that I had hardly worn and decided to give a slight makeover. I bought a mask from a cheap shop and really loved the attached peacock feathers but wasn't sure what I would do with them. When I decided to makeover this dress I cut the feathers off the mask and glued them onto brooch. Then I simply pinned the brooch to the dress. It would probably look great with a dark green belt around the waist to give it a bit more colour. 

I bought this skirt from Vinnies and sewed an old silver watch to the centre of the waistband to give it some unique bling.

My sister bought this dress but decided she wasn't going to wear it so passed it onto me. I just bought some fringing and sewed it onto the neckline. Later on I added some blue glitter fabric paint to the top of the fringing. I still think it needs something else though :s  Not entirely happy with it. 

A pair of jeans I bought but rarely wore because they were way too uncomfortable around my lower back (chronic lower back pain etc). I grabbed some light pink fabric paint and drew the Barbie logo on the bum :) 

Plain black Supre' skirt. I just sewed an old gold watch to the centre of the waistband. It looks like it's hanging off the skirt but as it's stretch material the watch pulls back and lyes flat across your stomach when you put the skirt on :) 

This is a pair of plain black skinny jeans (sorry the photo's a bit blurry) that I hardly wore, again because they were so tight that they just made my lower back pain 10 times worse. My sister was throwing out an old fake Louis Vuitton bag which had a very real looking lock and key attached to it. I attached both the lock and key to the belt loop. They can both be removed easily for washing purposes. 

This is a top I up-cycled years ago for an Australia Day/Hottest 100 party. On the front and back I sewed two Triple J logo's which I cut off a canvas bag that I was never going to use. I then sewed 3 pieces of white and red ribbon starting at each of the three drum sticks and leading to the back of the shirt. I zig- zagged and turned the ribbons back on themself to give a better effect.