10 Second Spice Up

If you are looking for ways to spice up your clothes in seconds, here's how!

  • Buy glitter spray (found in arts and crafts stores like A.C. Moore's or Michael's) that glamours up your clothes but wash out easily. You can spray that in sections and try to form a pattern, or just spray it all over. Hold the spray close to the fabric if you want it very sparkly, or hold it farther so that glistens softly. (Difficulty: 1)
  • If you have a shirt wear you feel the neck area needs to be bigger, trim the front neck area so you have a strip of fabric. Wrap that fabric around your arm wear you want it to be as an accessory to that shirt. Wear the two ends meet according to your arm size, hold that spot with your fingers and sew the ends together with thread of a similar color. You can try to not loose that in the closet by put that arm-wrap around the hook of the hanger when you hang that shirt up. (Difficulty: 2)
  • If you have a shirt that is too blasé for you (and it has to be sleeveless or have very short sleeves), here's what you can do. Get a piece of string in the same color as the shirt (leather, hemp cord, whatever you want). Cut one to the length you want by measuring how long you want it to go down from your shoulder down to your arm and double it. Cut the piece of string a little longer than that (because you have to tie to string, and that takes little bit). Cut another string the same length. Take one of the strings and bring it under the sleeve. Hold the two ends up so that they are even and the middle of it is under the sleeve. Tie it. Do the same for the other side. (Difficulty: 1)
  • If you want to add a little something to a three quartered sleeve shirt, then try this. Get a needle with a large enough eye to fit string through (depends on what sring you want to use...leather, hemp cord, etc. I used hemp). Get your three quartered sleeve shirt and string your material through the needle. Poke the needle from the inside of the sleeve near the bottom of the sleeve and poke it out. Pull the end through (the one that is already cut). Move the needle forward about 3/4" and poke the needle back in. Do this all the way around, making sure that when you get all the way around, there is 3/4" of a gap between the end and the beginning. Take the string out of the needle. Pull them so that the ends are dangling as long as you desire and cut the end that is uncut so that they are even (or not, depending on your choice). Do the same for the other side. (Difficulty: 1)


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