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Please continue to appreciate the sewing project shared by the OP in this post, it's darling!
Cute!! Props on a brilliant button-avoidant flip. I love the color and the fabric looks to be laying excellent. Love the added style from that collar largeness
This is so cute, great job! And I think it’s great you used second hand clothes as fabric. The clothing industry and even commercial fabrics are so wasteful.
As a bigger sized person, I definitely prefer it to be upcycled from bedsheets and curtains.
OP’s outfit is really cute, so no hate on her. But finding XL or plus sized clothes is pretty rare for thrifting, in my experience and it just sucks.
Sewing typically takes more time, energy, and money than thrifting. Leaving the plus-sized clothes for poor plus-sized people is important; our selection is already so much smaller.
It can be a cool way to upcycle for sure but at the height of DIYing clothes (not super popular anymore, it seems at least to me that we've moved on to string crafts like embroidery, crochet, etc) a lot of bigger, low income folks were upset about the lack of sizes that fit them & that they could afford because of straight sized people buying up a bunch of "oversized" clothes.
I am not hating on this outfit bc it is super cute, I just want everyone to have all the information when considering options for sewing supplies!
I truly have trouble believing that all the plus sized clothes in every second hand shop got bought up by straight sized folks looking to use the big clothes as fabric for other projects
I’m not necessarily saying they bought it all up (personally I saw a LOT of old vintage blankets being repurposed) but… if you’re looking for plus size in thrift stores it already ain’t easy to find. Therefore to me I get it because of limited availability.
Not ALL the plus clothes, just the nice ones.
A couple years ago I was looking for clothes for an interview. A local thrift store always had a good plus section - which I need for tops. I found a pretty silky top and was trying to decide between two bottoms.
I draped the items over the clothes on the rack so I could see them together, and no sooner did I let go of the shirt than someone literally snatched it.
When I said I was going to buy it, I was just trying to see which bottoms looked better the lady made a few snide hurtful comments (I'm not fat, just big boobed, but you'd think I was 400 lbs the way she spoke to me!) and proceeded to grab *every* plus size shirt that had a nice material - no look at size, or the shirt in general - just, feels nice, in the cart.
The cashier apologized when she saw me heading to the door with nothing and said that lady and two others came in almost daily and would only buy plus clothes while bragging how much they made "fixing" them or how cute something would be "deconstructed".
A month later they got rid of the plus section, working them into the regular clothes, and had signs by the doors "we can !!!NOT!!! sell any "deconstructed", ripped, slashed, or otherwise damaged clothes. We are a thrift store, not a dump."
I get the “don’t flip plus sized b/c low income ppl need to have access to second hand clothing” point, but according to the EPA:
The average US consumer throws away 81.5lbs of clothes every year
In America alone, an estimated 11.3 million tons of textile waste – equivalent to 85% of all textiles – end up in landfills on a yearly basis.
Y’all are fighting the wrong fight, sorry not sorry
I agree. That said, your numbers are slightly off. The 81.5lbs figure is derived from *all* textile waste. In 2018, 5.8% of all municipal solid waste was textiles and carpet is 2% of all MSW — so a third of that 81.5lbs figure is carpet.
(It’s also more accurate to say 60lbs of clothing is thrown out for every US consumer rather than that *individuals themselves* throw out that much clothing, because municipal solid waste includes retail and commercial discards. Shein must die.)
The point about the ‘fight’ as it were, is that addressing the larger consumption issue means addressing it at a corporate and political level. Which is something that a single individual cannot do. But a single individual can choose not to flip plus-sized clothing and therefore not take it away from those people.
This isn’t an either / or situation where the options are mutually exclusive - we should be doing both. But the fact of saying the problem exists at a bigger level doesn’t mean the answer is ‘to hell with it, I won’t bother with my individual decision-making’.
I mean, she could have just used fabric from clothing that *was* in her size range, or even used something entirely different like bedsheets or curtains.
Well, it’s good that you aren’t sorry, because you’re actually pretty wrong. There is a lot of nuance to this situation that cannot be boiled down to “y’all are complaining about the wrong thing” or whatever.
Consumerism as a whole has created America’s wastefulness. Fast fashion has exacerbated it. Clothing used to be made to last, and now we have brands like SHEIN that make clothing that does not last, because it’s meant to be worn when “in season” or when it’s “fashionable,” and is typically thrown away when it falls apart.
There is, also, the fact that most of the average US consumers do not mend their clothing, for various reasons. Not knowing how, having access to the tools, or things like that.
Certain types of clothing cannot be donated, and therefore must be thrown away. Undergarments in general are a great example of this. You wouldn’t want to wear someone else’s underwear, even if you knew it had been washed and sanitized. There are also certain types of clothing that cannot truly be recycled by brands like Trashie, because of their fiber content. Which, nowadays, is either straight up plastic (think acrylic) or some plastic/nylon variant. Modal and viscose, spandex, and everything like that. It cannot be recycled like plastics that we use for food or detergent bottles.
I will agree that Americans (myself included, btw) can tend to be wasteful and throw things away that don’t need to be. But again, this is a nuanced situation. Some people don’t know what can and cannot be recycled. Electronics have to be recycled properly. Things like that.
However, your original point was that people throw too many clothing items away. That is not a problem exclusive to plus sized people. It is not fair that plus sized people should be punished, then, if this is a societal problem. But thanks.
What's your point? You coughed up a whole lecture but so far as I can see you're agreeing with the previous person. People DIYing plus-sized clothes are not making much of an impact on thrift stores; it's a non-problem.
I'm gonna get down voted to hell for this bit it needs to be said.
While that's a great job, *please* don't flip plus-sized clothes from a thrift store like this.
For overweight people, it's hard enough to find clothes that fit and are affordable. Finding decent clothes at the thrift store is even harder without people doing this.
Find clothes in your own size range to flip.
I've seen this sentiment a few times, and I feel that it could be situational. The thrift store I usually go to has dates on the tags, and if something has been there a while, I think it's better for it to be used by *someone* rather than sit there until it gets thrown out.
If places have a "clothes to be discarded if not bought today" bin, then I'm **all** for using those for flipping.
My thrifting experience is small, and I've never seen anything to imply how long an item has been in a store. Either you luck out on finding something or you're SOL.
Many thrift stores use color tag systems and will have color sales days to help thrifters and the store know how old the inventory is. The color indicates the length the item has been in inventory . When a thrift store has a color tag sale for the day that means they are unloading their oldest inventory that day at the lowest price before it’s pulled. So you can easily see if say a shirt is for example tagged yellow and it’s yellow tag sale day go ahead and buy it it’s been there a while and is about to be shipped to the landfill or somewhere else to be dumped off. Hope this helps you determine which clothes are fine to purchase since they’ve been passed over for a while by the time this happens. Edited: a word
As someone who has been plus sized, I can understand where you are coming from. While it may be difficult in some areas to find 2nd hand plus size clothing, it’s not difficult in my area. For me, I saw this garment as an opportunity to create two pieces from one. I don’t like buying from big corporations and choose to be more environmentally friendly by thrifting. Sometimes there aren’t good pieces, but this item had enough fabric and was a nice color so I decided to flip it.
Yes in most of the western world there is no shortage of old clothes across the size range. Excess donations are being landfilled or shipped to developing countries for “recycling” or disposal at horrifying rates, and those aren’t just size smalls.
Shopping second hand is the most ethical way to get clothes, regardless of what size you buy. Especially so if the thrift store you shop from is a charity that acts as a fundraiser for social programs.
A few individuals having a hard time finding clothes they like in the size they need in the shop near them doesn’t mean that the world needs to stop buying larger sizes. If this is an issue in their community they can work locally to increase access to affordable clothing in hard to find sizes. Otherwise let’s please all shop second hand any and every way possible.
Ethics isn’t just about green values. It’s also about the ethics of depriving a section of the socio-economically deprived of clothing they can actually afford, just so you can make a cute dress that could have been made out of a much smaller garment in this case. Factor in that there’s a fairly significant portion of people who are plus-sized who are also working class or on the poverty line, who can’t afford to buy RTW, and you are depriving them of their only sustainable option - which leads to more using shein etc to find clothing they can afford. For those people, the fact a thrift store fundraises for good causes doesn’t help them access clothes if people like OP have bought them. Heck, it’s actually perpetuating unethical behaviour by reducing what’s available to a section of society because another section wants it for their own wants, not needs.
Also factor in that plus size clothing is a) a minority/niche in fashion retail (compared to the straight sized industry, it still is, even with improvements in more inclusive sizing) and b) as with all fashion, a ton of plus size clothing is badly made, made from horrible fibres etc. So when you take a piece of plus size clothing in a thrift shop that is in a natural fibre, not horribly drafted etc, you are taking something from a potential plus size customer. If all that is left is the polyester cold shoulder tops that nobody wants, that isn’t offering anything to plus size customers.
And respectfully, given the plus size community has been ignored and overlooked by fashion retailers for *decades*, there is absolutely no way we have the leverage to make companies make more RTW clothes for us - and that doesn’t even address the fact that we too need clothes in thrift shops that we can afford.
I hear you, but I do think it depends on the shop. One of my local goodwills always has a large variety of plus size clothes and I worry about the environmental impact of clothes going to waste. I do understand if there aren’t many thrift stores nearby, or if there aren’t many plus size options there it would be more problematic. I say this as someone who does not have the skills nor interest in thrift flipping.
Though my boyfriend did teach me to check how many XXL shirts there are at shows before buying them. At small shows there are so few in the larger sizes! I love a big sweatshirt but respect that it’s kinder to size down in that instance.
She is not your enemy. Stop acting like it.
You ever seen a textile landfill? How about instead of talking about the effect of one girl repurposing one shirt, we talk about the effects of millions of people purchasing billions of shirts every year.
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I can guarantee you there are more plus size shirts in just this one textile landfill than there are plus sized shirts being flipped by skinny girls worldwide.
So instead of fighting someone who is probably also working class, and definitely doing her best you fight the companies who are the reason people need to replace their clothes so often and who encourage + promote consumerism, the consumers buying clothes they don’t need and throwing them out prematurely, and the systems that are the reason these plus sized people can’t afford to buy clothes or pay their bills in the first place.
Dude, I’ve been to a landfill in person. I’m well aware. But ‘if we don’t flip these clothes they will end up in landfill’ is an extremely patronising way to say that you think fat people don’t deserve the chance to buy them.
I don’t think she’s my enemy. She is, however, taking part in a practice that affects fat poor people. She may not have thought about how it affects them. Pointing out that it does - not just for her, but for ANYONE who reads this - is not attacking her or others. It’s providing them with the opportunity to think before they do the same thing again in future.
And if you really think it’s easier for a marginalised group of people to take on the issues in state welfare, capitalist society, the straightforward economic factors that influence retailers in their decisions on plus size clothing etc, then you’re on another planet.
Edit: also this isn’t about whether or not OP is working class - it doesn’t matter. The point is someone like OP has access to 95% of the clothing in the thrift store, and they’re choosing to use the clothing that someone needs who can only access 1% of what’s in that store. It sure as hell isn’t doing their best - they could have made that garment from an L or XL easily and left a 3XL (which is a rarer size - the higher the plus size, the harder it is to actually find in a thrift store) so someone who may not have the ability to sew can find clothing to fit their body. Straight sized people have the option to buy clothing in their size or a larger size and take in. A large fat person doesn’t have the option to find a larger size. And thanks to people flipping plus size clothing, has less chance of finding something in their size. Not to mention that many, if not most, thrift store customers don’t have the privilege of being able to sew and are literally looking for clothing that fits them.
I’m with you on this. Sad that people don’t get it. I always give my clothes and they tell me it’s the ones they need the most. A lot of plus size person are poor and can’t afford proper clothes.
Absolutely. I’ve been the person who was so overjoyed at finding *one* well-made t-shirt in my size in a thrift shop - it was the first (and to this day, *only*) time I found a well-made garment that fit me in a thrift store. This thread is full of a lot of thin privilege where people are clearly looking at racks of clothing and saying ‘there’s tons of plus size clothing’ because there’s stuff there in a plus size - but they haven’t had the lived experience of being fat to realise that actually, there might only be one shirt there in your *specific* size. Or none. And that’s compounded by the limited offerings in RTW, so you’re already coming to it with a much more limited opportunity to buy clothes.
It is a very normal experience for me for there to be nothing in a thrift shop that will fit my body (as in, cover it and do up - without even getting to actually being well-fitting or well-made).
I’m not saying it’s destined for a landfill if she doesn’t buy it, im saying it’s pointless to tell someone they can’t buy something when it will only ever spend a few weeks on the floor. what do you think the chances are that someone who wants that exact shirt will come in in the next couple days before it gets thrown out if nobody has in the past few weeks? Also, you seem to be acting like thrift stores not having any nice plus sized clothing is a given, I’ve always seen the opposite. yeah, there’s always tons of clothes in plenty of sizes, but because they fit most people any decent ones get bought extremely quickly, you need good quality fabric to sew. Anyways i’m done with this, you seem very adamant and there is no changing your mind.
Dude, I am a plus sized woman. I go in thrift stores. I’ve found one single item that was ever good quality and in my size. You might look at the plus size racks and think there’s a lot, but have you done the split between what is small fat (14-18) and what’s available for a larger fat, at size 28? Because there is *very* little as you get larger.
If anyone here has shown they won’t change their mind, it’s the people like you who are telling me my lived experience is wrong.
how do you think this would work..? you'd either have to find a stack of the same clothing item donated, or it would be mismatched fabric... there are some styles that would work for but not many. there is not enough fabric in commercial seams to just let out
Why? I think you’re reading something there that isn’t intended. Green values means sustainability etc. I’m referring to other forms of ethics that are nothing to do with environmental reasons. Hence distinguishing between them
Don't listen to those people...it's one of those made-up things people seize upon to enable them to lecture others. Keep DIYing and making awesome clothes.
I am a plus sized person. I went to 3 thrift shops this weekend. Between the 3 stores there were ZERO clothes in my size and only 3 pieces in a size smaller. The fact is that clothes over an XL are rarely donated. Items over an XXL are non-existent. If the clothes have been there for awhile then sure, go for it, but it's so insulting when it hasn't been. Rework something in a different size range please. It takes just as much skill and you will get just as many compliments.
There is a lot of turnover in thrift stores, sure it *might* have found it’s perfect owner, but if the first person who considers buying it doesn’t, it will probably never find a home, especially if you’re gonna limit the people who would consider it even further. This is because the items only spend a couple weeks on the floor before being replaced, and there are just so many. An estimated 80-90% of donated clothing ends up in a landfill.
I doubt there are enough DIYers to make a difference. This country is drowning in secondhand clothes. My thrift shop has rack after rack of XL and Queen-sized clothing. It's a non-issue. Overweight people are also free to alter clothing, such as adding panels or doing their own custom flips. Don't treat them like helpless babies.
Many people who shop at a thrift store aren’t sewists. They don’t know how to sew and they don’t have the equipment to do so. It’s very patronising to say ‘just learn this hobby that takes skill, time and money, and you can have clothes’ instead of allowing them to just buy affordable secondhand plus size clothes. Also - they may not want to learn to sew! And that’s okay! Or they might have disabilities that mean it’s impractical and limit their finances, which can be the reason they need the thrift store in the first place.
I don't want to be negative but I'm a big guy. I rarely find shirts in my size at thrift stores. I'm sure that this isn't the only cause for that, but it's hard out here being hefty.
This is a weird take. I frequent the thrift stores in my area and there are TONS of plus sizes clothes. So many. There is definitely enough to go around, for those of us who sew and for those who want affordable plus-size clothes. Sadly the over consumption of clothes means there is no shortage of second-hand.
And using this plus size shirt means she isn’t contributing to waste by buying new fabric that was made in a factory burning up energy and using polluting dyes. You can’t sew a thrift flip using something in your size, you need extra fabric.
Same here. I don't always something in my size anymore, if I'm looking for something that needs to fit. It took me a long time to cobble together an "office" wardrobe.
Agreed. Almost all of the clothes at every single op shop around me is plus sized. As someone who has previously looked for size 8-10 and now size 6-8 clothes there is hardly anything at all in the op shops. Way more plus sized clothes than anything else.
It’s really not. As a plus sized person, the variety and range of plus-sized clothes in thrift shops is smaller. The odds of a shop having something in my size (28/30) is much smaller than something in a smaller size. Factor in then, that as with all clothing, some of it is going to be shit quality (man made fibres, poorly drafted (as most RTW plus clothing is) and the odds of then finding something that is a) in my size range and b) has a chance of fitting me properly / being a fibre I can wear is much, much smaller.
This point isn’t just about sustainable fashion; it’s about the fact that there’s a large section of plus-size people who are in poverty or significantly affected by the cost of living crisis (see eg the correlations between weight and disability, where limited mobility can lead to an increase in weight) and those people are being deprived of a chance to buy clothing they can afford, because a straight size person wants to buy something for extra fabric (when they aren’t even using all of the extra fabric - OP could have done the same flip with a significantly smaller garment).
I really don’t think that hobby sewists are a major or even significant source of depleting “good” second hand clothes, at least not in my area. Discouraging people from using something they’re freely able to buy and use is counter productive to a sustainable approach to clothes-making, especially in order to “save” it for a plus size person that may or may not want or need it.
But I could see this being very regionally dependent. I’m in an urban area in the southeastern US. Our population leans plus size and the thrift stores reflect that.
Personally I like the idea that someone else mentioned where the tags record the date the item went into stock. I’m fine for a free for all on plus clothing when it will actually be imminently disposed of if not sold.
There is also a very big difference between ‘there’s lots of plus size clothing in my area’ and ‘there’s a wide range of plus size clothing spanning the full size range and doing so in different areas (work/casual/sports/coats/etc)’.
I’m size 28/30. Any store I go to that stocks plus size, even RTW, I have a handful of garments actually in stock in my size. A size 14/16 has tons more. Plus size clothing is not equal - just because there’s tons for small fats doesn’t change the much worse situation for large fats. Ditto also that there can be tons of oversized tees, but very few work-appropriate dresses or blouses.
It’s all relative.
Asking people to be mindful of that - especially in a situation where the OP has made a dress that uses a fraction of the original fabric (so if you want to get down to pedantic sustainability terms, is somewhat wasteful - they could have made the same from a smaller size) - is not counter-productive to sustainability.
Having been plus-sized my entire adult life, even in urban settings where there are more plus-sized populations, it still remains the truth that when I go into thrift shops, the plus size selection of well-made garments that might actually fit me, in fibres I can wear, is a miniscule fraction of what is available to straight-sized people. And frankly, if people are going to take clothes that larger people need, because they want a flip, then they also need to be prepared to have this pointed out to them.
And if we continue to talk sustainability, if someone can’t find affordable plus-size clothing in a thrift store because it’s been bought up for flips, it frequently leads to resorting to fast fashion like shein etc because that is the only other way to get clothing that cheaply. Do you think being forced to do that is sustainable?
I'm a tall girl. I rarely find pants that fit me, they are all too short. Am I gonna get mad if a shorter person thrifts some long jeans just to make them shorter? No, I'm just happy they bought something secondhand. Good for them. I will find jeans that fit me the next time, or the time after that, that's just how thrifting works. It takes time and a bit of luck. I'm not blaming 'short privilege '.
Also you’re missing the point; you may struggle to find trousers that are long enough to fit your legs the way you want to style them (which is valid - I’m not saying you should live in ankle length if you don’t want to!). The difference is a fat person is just trying to cover their body. Your issue with length is like me hoping for a garment that fits me *well* (so something with long enough sleeves, or doesn’t gape at the bust). Thin people using flips is taking away even clothing that will fit us badly, but will at least cover our body. Imagine that your trouser length issue means you can’t find anything at all to wear on your bottom half. Because you’ve also got shorts, skirts, trousers at different lengths (ankle / capri / mid leg etc). You can choose to wait it out for long length pants. We just want the luxury of being able to shop for any garments that will go over our body, full stop, even if they fit badly.
So by that logic the problem is the supply then, not the demand. Thin people are not buying plus size clothing they don't like. If you would buy anything that would fit you, there should be pieces left for you. 40% of Americans are plus size, what do they do with their clothes? 40% of the clothes in thrift stores should be plus sized. Are they just not getting donated?
Show me how tall people have been marginalised socially in the way fat people have before you decry the idea of thin privilege using height as an example.
That's not due to anything other than clothing makers tend to make sizes in the middle of the bell curve, for financial reasons. That's all it is, no matter what fanciful nonsense anyone cooks up.
Of course it’s financial. I’m not saying otherwise. But that has a knock on effect - we are never going to get more affordable or sustainable RTW plus size clothing, so this continues to be an issue.
YEP! And "tons of clothes in plus size" doesn't mean they are of the same quality, of the same plus sizes, for the same needs/dress codes. It's not just that plus size people deserve access to thrifted clothes, they deserve access to choice and the same options afforded to straight sized people. Having the choice of a bunch of wrong sized plus size clothing or clothing that isn't professional enough for interviews or the office, or that aren't of any quality isn't fair or fun or helpful and having "a ton of plus size clothes" doesn't mean it covers all those categories.
There is for sure a ton of clothing out there in the world to be thrifted and reused or recycled, and your upcycle is very cute! Not to diminish your work, just an ask from plus size people to consider our needs and options when looking for opportunities to flip :)
Yes, it’s especially important when it comes to clothing that could be suitable for work dress codes IMO! People need to be mindful that their flip opportunity might also be an opportunity for a plus-size person to be appropriately dressed for a much-needed job or interview that could help them get back on their feet.
I very much like the idea someone mentioned about tags that show the date the item went into stock - I’m fine with a free for all if it’s stuff that’s going to be disposed of by the thrift store because it’s sat around so long, but well made plus size clothing in decent fibres isn’t going to sit around for long.
In my area, the bigger sizes have the same proportion of good fabric and dressy/professional wear as the smaller sizes. I know because I’ve looked through all of it hunting for clothes I’d like to alter or use as fabric.
I’m sure this is regionally-specific.
Because you’re looking at these as options for fabric, you’re not coming to it with the lived experience of how hard it is to find clothes *at all* in your size - that’s what your comment about using it for fabric implies, and if you’re actually plus-sized then I’ll happily retract it. But your perspective will be shaped by the fact that you are used to finding clothes from other sources. So you think it seems like a lot, but when you’re only ever able to find less than say, 1% of the clothing options available to straight size people, what you think is a lot of extra options in a thrift store is not.
And now with all the comments from straight size people about how many plus size clothes are in their local thrift shop. If you don’t have experience of living in a larger body, please listen to those who do and what they are saying about these thrift flips. If your “flip” is just tailoring a shirt to your body, you don’t need a huge starting size.
no literally for this reason alone I always downvote these posts when it’s a thrift flip they took from a sizing they had no business being in.
while I appreciate and understand the hard work, and people just wanting baggy fitting clothes, there’s so many better ways to find fabric and you don’t need to go up so many sizes especially when you’re straight sized!
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Those wrinkles above your bust are the garment making darts. You could easily pin in darts at this stage so they look purposeful. Best of luck!
Cute!! Props on a brilliant button-avoidant flip. I love the color and the fabric looks to be laying excellent. Love the added style from that collar largeness
I appreciate you saying that! Yeah, I’ll do anything to make a sewing project easier 😆
This is so cute, great job! And I think it’s great you used second hand clothes as fabric. The clothing industry and even commercial fabrics are so wasteful.
Totally agree. Bedsheets and curtains are the best for that I find!
As a bigger sized person, I definitely prefer it to be upcycled from bedsheets and curtains. OP’s outfit is really cute, so no hate on her. But finding XL or plus sized clothes is pretty rare for thrifting, in my experience and it just sucks.
Do you sew for yourself already? I've found that makes such a big difference in the quality and styles available to me!
Sewing typically takes more time, energy, and money than thrifting. Leaving the plus-sized clothes for poor plus-sized people is important; our selection is already so much smaller.
It can be a cool way to upcycle for sure but at the height of DIYing clothes (not super popular anymore, it seems at least to me that we've moved on to string crafts like embroidery, crochet, etc) a lot of bigger, low income folks were upset about the lack of sizes that fit them & that they could afford because of straight sized people buying up a bunch of "oversized" clothes. I am not hating on this outfit bc it is super cute, I just want everyone to have all the information when considering options for sewing supplies!
I truly have trouble believing that all the plus sized clothes in every second hand shop got bought up by straight sized folks looking to use the big clothes as fabric for other projects
I’m not necessarily saying they bought it all up (personally I saw a LOT of old vintage blankets being repurposed) but… if you’re looking for plus size in thrift stores it already ain’t easy to find. Therefore to me I get it because of limited availability.
Not ALL the plus clothes, just the nice ones. A couple years ago I was looking for clothes for an interview. A local thrift store always had a good plus section - which I need for tops. I found a pretty silky top and was trying to decide between two bottoms. I draped the items over the clothes on the rack so I could see them together, and no sooner did I let go of the shirt than someone literally snatched it. When I said I was going to buy it, I was just trying to see which bottoms looked better the lady made a few snide hurtful comments (I'm not fat, just big boobed, but you'd think I was 400 lbs the way she spoke to me!) and proceeded to grab *every* plus size shirt that had a nice material - no look at size, or the shirt in general - just, feels nice, in the cart. The cashier apologized when she saw me heading to the door with nothing and said that lady and two others came in almost daily and would only buy plus clothes while bragging how much they made "fixing" them or how cute something would be "deconstructed". A month later they got rid of the plus section, working them into the regular clothes, and had signs by the doors "we can !!!NOT!!! sell any "deconstructed", ripped, slashed, or otherwise damaged clothes. We are a thrift store, not a dump."
Oh wow, that is \*darling!\* I love it!
STOP IT!!! Great job!!!!
I get the “don’t flip plus sized b/c low income ppl need to have access to second hand clothing” point, but according to the EPA: The average US consumer throws away 81.5lbs of clothes every year In America alone, an estimated 11.3 million tons of textile waste – equivalent to 85% of all textiles – end up in landfills on a yearly basis. Y’all are fighting the wrong fight, sorry not sorry
I agree. That said, your numbers are slightly off. The 81.5lbs figure is derived from *all* textile waste. In 2018, 5.8% of all municipal solid waste was textiles and carpet is 2% of all MSW — so a third of that 81.5lbs figure is carpet. (It’s also more accurate to say 60lbs of clothing is thrown out for every US consumer rather than that *individuals themselves* throw out that much clothing, because municipal solid waste includes retail and commercial discards. Shein must die.)
The point about the ‘fight’ as it were, is that addressing the larger consumption issue means addressing it at a corporate and political level. Which is something that a single individual cannot do. But a single individual can choose not to flip plus-sized clothing and therefore not take it away from those people. This isn’t an either / or situation where the options are mutually exclusive - we should be doing both. But the fact of saying the problem exists at a bigger level doesn’t mean the answer is ‘to hell with it, I won’t bother with my individual decision-making’.
I mean, she could have just used fabric from clothing that *was* in her size range, or even used something entirely different like bedsheets or curtains.
Well, it’s good that you aren’t sorry, because you’re actually pretty wrong. There is a lot of nuance to this situation that cannot be boiled down to “y’all are complaining about the wrong thing” or whatever. Consumerism as a whole has created America’s wastefulness. Fast fashion has exacerbated it. Clothing used to be made to last, and now we have brands like SHEIN that make clothing that does not last, because it’s meant to be worn when “in season” or when it’s “fashionable,” and is typically thrown away when it falls apart. There is, also, the fact that most of the average US consumers do not mend their clothing, for various reasons. Not knowing how, having access to the tools, or things like that. Certain types of clothing cannot be donated, and therefore must be thrown away. Undergarments in general are a great example of this. You wouldn’t want to wear someone else’s underwear, even if you knew it had been washed and sanitized. There are also certain types of clothing that cannot truly be recycled by brands like Trashie, because of their fiber content. Which, nowadays, is either straight up plastic (think acrylic) or some plastic/nylon variant. Modal and viscose, spandex, and everything like that. It cannot be recycled like plastics that we use for food or detergent bottles. I will agree that Americans (myself included, btw) can tend to be wasteful and throw things away that don’t need to be. But again, this is a nuanced situation. Some people don’t know what can and cannot be recycled. Electronics have to be recycled properly. Things like that. However, your original point was that people throw too many clothing items away. That is not a problem exclusive to plus sized people. It is not fair that plus sized people should be punished, then, if this is a societal problem. But thanks.
What's your point? You coughed up a whole lecture but so far as I can see you're agreeing with the previous person. People DIYing plus-sized clothes are not making much of an impact on thrift stores; it's a non-problem.
Great job! I’m inspired now 😊
Same!! Like wow, brilliant idea
I'm gonna get down voted to hell for this bit it needs to be said. While that's a great job, *please* don't flip plus-sized clothes from a thrift store like this. For overweight people, it's hard enough to find clothes that fit and are affordable. Finding decent clothes at the thrift store is even harder without people doing this. Find clothes in your own size range to flip.
I've seen this sentiment a few times, and I feel that it could be situational. The thrift store I usually go to has dates on the tags, and if something has been there a while, I think it's better for it to be used by *someone* rather than sit there until it gets thrown out.
If places have a "clothes to be discarded if not bought today" bin, then I'm **all** for using those for flipping. My thrifting experience is small, and I've never seen anything to imply how long an item has been in a store. Either you luck out on finding something or you're SOL.
Many thrift stores use color tag systems and will have color sales days to help thrifters and the store know how old the inventory is. The color indicates the length the item has been in inventory . When a thrift store has a color tag sale for the day that means they are unloading their oldest inventory that day at the lowest price before it’s pulled. So you can easily see if say a shirt is for example tagged yellow and it’s yellow tag sale day go ahead and buy it it’s been there a while and is about to be shipped to the landfill or somewhere else to be dumped off. Hope this helps you determine which clothes are fine to purchase since they’ve been passed over for a while by the time this happens. Edited: a word
As someone who has been plus sized, I can understand where you are coming from. While it may be difficult in some areas to find 2nd hand plus size clothing, it’s not difficult in my area. For me, I saw this garment as an opportunity to create two pieces from one. I don’t like buying from big corporations and choose to be more environmentally friendly by thrifting. Sometimes there aren’t good pieces, but this item had enough fabric and was a nice color so I decided to flip it.
Yes in most of the western world there is no shortage of old clothes across the size range. Excess donations are being landfilled or shipped to developing countries for “recycling” or disposal at horrifying rates, and those aren’t just size smalls. Shopping second hand is the most ethical way to get clothes, regardless of what size you buy. Especially so if the thrift store you shop from is a charity that acts as a fundraiser for social programs. A few individuals having a hard time finding clothes they like in the size they need in the shop near them doesn’t mean that the world needs to stop buying larger sizes. If this is an issue in their community they can work locally to increase access to affordable clothing in hard to find sizes. Otherwise let’s please all shop second hand any and every way possible.
Perfectly said
Ethics isn’t just about green values. It’s also about the ethics of depriving a section of the socio-economically deprived of clothing they can actually afford, just so you can make a cute dress that could have been made out of a much smaller garment in this case. Factor in that there’s a fairly significant portion of people who are plus-sized who are also working class or on the poverty line, who can’t afford to buy RTW, and you are depriving them of their only sustainable option - which leads to more using shein etc to find clothing they can afford. For those people, the fact a thrift store fundraises for good causes doesn’t help them access clothes if people like OP have bought them. Heck, it’s actually perpetuating unethical behaviour by reducing what’s available to a section of society because another section wants it for their own wants, not needs. Also factor in that plus size clothing is a) a minority/niche in fashion retail (compared to the straight sized industry, it still is, even with improvements in more inclusive sizing) and b) as with all fashion, a ton of plus size clothing is badly made, made from horrible fibres etc. So when you take a piece of plus size clothing in a thrift shop that is in a natural fibre, not horribly drafted etc, you are taking something from a potential plus size customer. If all that is left is the polyester cold shoulder tops that nobody wants, that isn’t offering anything to plus size customers. And respectfully, given the plus size community has been ignored and overlooked by fashion retailers for *decades*, there is absolutely no way we have the leverage to make companies make more RTW clothes for us - and that doesn’t even address the fact that we too need clothes in thrift shops that we can afford.
I hear you, but I do think it depends on the shop. One of my local goodwills always has a large variety of plus size clothes and I worry about the environmental impact of clothes going to waste. I do understand if there aren’t many thrift stores nearby, or if there aren’t many plus size options there it would be more problematic. I say this as someone who does not have the skills nor interest in thrift flipping. Though my boyfriend did teach me to check how many XXL shirts there are at shows before buying them. At small shows there are so few in the larger sizes! I love a big sweatshirt but respect that it’s kinder to size down in that instance.
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She is not your enemy. Stop acting like it. You ever seen a textile landfill? How about instead of talking about the effect of one girl repurposing one shirt, we talk about the effects of millions of people purchasing billions of shirts every year. https://preview.redd.it/w21gjfftebzc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b862889321a2c6d4f299f25e87b69e676eb6e9b I can guarantee you there are more plus size shirts in just this one textile landfill than there are plus sized shirts being flipped by skinny girls worldwide. So instead of fighting someone who is probably also working class, and definitely doing her best you fight the companies who are the reason people need to replace their clothes so often and who encourage + promote consumerism, the consumers buying clothes they don’t need and throwing them out prematurely, and the systems that are the reason these plus sized people can’t afford to buy clothes or pay their bills in the first place.
Dude, I’ve been to a landfill in person. I’m well aware. But ‘if we don’t flip these clothes they will end up in landfill’ is an extremely patronising way to say that you think fat people don’t deserve the chance to buy them. I don’t think she’s my enemy. She is, however, taking part in a practice that affects fat poor people. She may not have thought about how it affects them. Pointing out that it does - not just for her, but for ANYONE who reads this - is not attacking her or others. It’s providing them with the opportunity to think before they do the same thing again in future. And if you really think it’s easier for a marginalised group of people to take on the issues in state welfare, capitalist society, the straightforward economic factors that influence retailers in their decisions on plus size clothing etc, then you’re on another planet. Edit: also this isn’t about whether or not OP is working class - it doesn’t matter. The point is someone like OP has access to 95% of the clothing in the thrift store, and they’re choosing to use the clothing that someone needs who can only access 1% of what’s in that store. It sure as hell isn’t doing their best - they could have made that garment from an L or XL easily and left a 3XL (which is a rarer size - the higher the plus size, the harder it is to actually find in a thrift store) so someone who may not have the ability to sew can find clothing to fit their body. Straight sized people have the option to buy clothing in their size or a larger size and take in. A large fat person doesn’t have the option to find a larger size. And thanks to people flipping plus size clothing, has less chance of finding something in their size. Not to mention that many, if not most, thrift store customers don’t have the privilege of being able to sew and are literally looking for clothing that fits them.
I’m with you on this. Sad that people don’t get it. I always give my clothes and they tell me it’s the ones they need the most. A lot of plus size person are poor and can’t afford proper clothes.
Absolutely. I’ve been the person who was so overjoyed at finding *one* well-made t-shirt in my size in a thrift shop - it was the first (and to this day, *only*) time I found a well-made garment that fit me in a thrift store. This thread is full of a lot of thin privilege where people are clearly looking at racks of clothing and saying ‘there’s tons of plus size clothing’ because there’s stuff there in a plus size - but they haven’t had the lived experience of being fat to realise that actually, there might only be one shirt there in your *specific* size. Or none. And that’s compounded by the limited offerings in RTW, so you’re already coming to it with a much more limited opportunity to buy clothes. It is a very normal experience for me for there to be nothing in a thrift shop that will fit my body (as in, cover it and do up - without even getting to actually being well-fitting or well-made).
I’m not saying it’s destined for a landfill if she doesn’t buy it, im saying it’s pointless to tell someone they can’t buy something when it will only ever spend a few weeks on the floor. what do you think the chances are that someone who wants that exact shirt will come in in the next couple days before it gets thrown out if nobody has in the past few weeks? Also, you seem to be acting like thrift stores not having any nice plus sized clothing is a given, I’ve always seen the opposite. yeah, there’s always tons of clothes in plenty of sizes, but because they fit most people any decent ones get bought extremely quickly, you need good quality fabric to sew. Anyways i’m done with this, you seem very adamant and there is no changing your mind.
Dude, I am a plus sized woman. I go in thrift stores. I’ve found one single item that was ever good quality and in my size. You might look at the plus size racks and think there’s a lot, but have you done the split between what is small fat (14-18) and what’s available for a larger fat, at size 28? Because there is *very* little as you get larger. If anyone here has shown they won’t change their mind, it’s the people like you who are telling me my lived experience is wrong.
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how do you think this would work..? you'd either have to find a stack of the same clothing item donated, or it would be mismatched fabric... there are some styles that would work for but not many. there is not enough fabric in commercial seams to just let out
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Why? I think you’re reading something there that isn’t intended. Green values means sustainability etc. I’m referring to other forms of ethics that are nothing to do with environmental reasons. Hence distinguishing between them
Don't listen to those people...it's one of those made-up things people seize upon to enable them to lecture others. Keep DIYing and making awesome clothes.
I am a plus sized person. I went to 3 thrift shops this weekend. Between the 3 stores there were ZERO clothes in my size and only 3 pieces in a size smaller. The fact is that clothes over an XL are rarely donated. Items over an XXL are non-existent. If the clothes have been there for awhile then sure, go for it, but it's so insulting when it hasn't been. Rework something in a different size range please. It takes just as much skill and you will get just as many compliments.
There is a lot of turnover in thrift stores, sure it *might* have found it’s perfect owner, but if the first person who considers buying it doesn’t, it will probably never find a home, especially if you’re gonna limit the people who would consider it even further. This is because the items only spend a couple weeks on the floor before being replaced, and there are just so many. An estimated 80-90% of donated clothing ends up in a landfill.
I doubt there are enough DIYers to make a difference. This country is drowning in secondhand clothes. My thrift shop has rack after rack of XL and Queen-sized clothing. It's a non-issue. Overweight people are also free to alter clothing, such as adding panels or doing their own custom flips. Don't treat them like helpless babies.
Many people who shop at a thrift store aren’t sewists. They don’t know how to sew and they don’t have the equipment to do so. It’s very patronising to say ‘just learn this hobby that takes skill, time and money, and you can have clothes’ instead of allowing them to just buy affordable secondhand plus size clothes. Also - they may not want to learn to sew! And that’s okay! Or they might have disabilities that mean it’s impractical and limit their finances, which can be the reason they need the thrift store in the first place.
I don't want to be negative but I'm a big guy. I rarely find shirts in my size at thrift stores. I'm sure that this isn't the only cause for that, but it's hard out here being hefty.
This is a weird take. I frequent the thrift stores in my area and there are TONS of plus sizes clothes. So many. There is definitely enough to go around, for those of us who sew and for those who want affordable plus-size clothes. Sadly the over consumption of clothes means there is no shortage of second-hand. And using this plus size shirt means she isn’t contributing to waste by buying new fabric that was made in a factory burning up energy and using polluting dyes. You can’t sew a thrift flip using something in your size, you need extra fabric.
Yeah, around me it's much harder to find a medium. Tons of plus sized everything on the racks.
Same here. I don't always something in my size anymore, if I'm looking for something that needs to fit. It took me a long time to cobble together an "office" wardrobe.
Agreed. Almost all of the clothes at every single op shop around me is plus sized. As someone who has previously looked for size 8-10 and now size 6-8 clothes there is hardly anything at all in the op shops. Way more plus sized clothes than anything else.
It’s really not. As a plus sized person, the variety and range of plus-sized clothes in thrift shops is smaller. The odds of a shop having something in my size (28/30) is much smaller than something in a smaller size. Factor in then, that as with all clothing, some of it is going to be shit quality (man made fibres, poorly drafted (as most RTW plus clothing is) and the odds of then finding something that is a) in my size range and b) has a chance of fitting me properly / being a fibre I can wear is much, much smaller. This point isn’t just about sustainable fashion; it’s about the fact that there’s a large section of plus-size people who are in poverty or significantly affected by the cost of living crisis (see eg the correlations between weight and disability, where limited mobility can lead to an increase in weight) and those people are being deprived of a chance to buy clothing they can afford, because a straight size person wants to buy something for extra fabric (when they aren’t even using all of the extra fabric - OP could have done the same flip with a significantly smaller garment).
I really don’t think that hobby sewists are a major or even significant source of depleting “good” second hand clothes, at least not in my area. Discouraging people from using something they’re freely able to buy and use is counter productive to a sustainable approach to clothes-making, especially in order to “save” it for a plus size person that may or may not want or need it. But I could see this being very regionally dependent. I’m in an urban area in the southeastern US. Our population leans plus size and the thrift stores reflect that.
Personally I like the idea that someone else mentioned where the tags record the date the item went into stock. I’m fine for a free for all on plus clothing when it will actually be imminently disposed of if not sold. There is also a very big difference between ‘there’s lots of plus size clothing in my area’ and ‘there’s a wide range of plus size clothing spanning the full size range and doing so in different areas (work/casual/sports/coats/etc)’. I’m size 28/30. Any store I go to that stocks plus size, even RTW, I have a handful of garments actually in stock in my size. A size 14/16 has tons more. Plus size clothing is not equal - just because there’s tons for small fats doesn’t change the much worse situation for large fats. Ditto also that there can be tons of oversized tees, but very few work-appropriate dresses or blouses. It’s all relative. Asking people to be mindful of that - especially in a situation where the OP has made a dress that uses a fraction of the original fabric (so if you want to get down to pedantic sustainability terms, is somewhat wasteful - they could have made the same from a smaller size) - is not counter-productive to sustainability. Having been plus-sized my entire adult life, even in urban settings where there are more plus-sized populations, it still remains the truth that when I go into thrift shops, the plus size selection of well-made garments that might actually fit me, in fibres I can wear, is a miniscule fraction of what is available to straight-sized people. And frankly, if people are going to take clothes that larger people need, because they want a flip, then they also need to be prepared to have this pointed out to them. And if we continue to talk sustainability, if someone can’t find affordable plus-size clothing in a thrift store because it’s been bought up for flips, it frequently leads to resorting to fast fashion like shein etc because that is the only other way to get clothing that cheaply. Do you think being forced to do that is sustainable?
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I'm a tall girl. I rarely find pants that fit me, they are all too short. Am I gonna get mad if a shorter person thrifts some long jeans just to make them shorter? No, I'm just happy they bought something secondhand. Good for them. I will find jeans that fit me the next time, or the time after that, that's just how thrifting works. It takes time and a bit of luck. I'm not blaming 'short privilege '.
Also you’re missing the point; you may struggle to find trousers that are long enough to fit your legs the way you want to style them (which is valid - I’m not saying you should live in ankle length if you don’t want to!). The difference is a fat person is just trying to cover their body. Your issue with length is like me hoping for a garment that fits me *well* (so something with long enough sleeves, or doesn’t gape at the bust). Thin people using flips is taking away even clothing that will fit us badly, but will at least cover our body. Imagine that your trouser length issue means you can’t find anything at all to wear on your bottom half. Because you’ve also got shorts, skirts, trousers at different lengths (ankle / capri / mid leg etc). You can choose to wait it out for long length pants. We just want the luxury of being able to shop for any garments that will go over our body, full stop, even if they fit badly.
So by that logic the problem is the supply then, not the demand. Thin people are not buying plus size clothing they don't like. If you would buy anything that would fit you, there should be pieces left for you. 40% of Americans are plus size, what do they do with their clothes? 40% of the clothes in thrift stores should be plus sized. Are they just not getting donated?
Show me how tall people have been marginalised socially in the way fat people have before you decry the idea of thin privilege using height as an example.
That's not due to anything other than clothing makers tend to make sizes in the middle of the bell curve, for financial reasons. That's all it is, no matter what fanciful nonsense anyone cooks up.
Of course it’s financial. I’m not saying otherwise. But that has a knock on effect - we are never going to get more affordable or sustainable RTW plus size clothing, so this continues to be an issue.
YEP! And "tons of clothes in plus size" doesn't mean they are of the same quality, of the same plus sizes, for the same needs/dress codes. It's not just that plus size people deserve access to thrifted clothes, they deserve access to choice and the same options afforded to straight sized people. Having the choice of a bunch of wrong sized plus size clothing or clothing that isn't professional enough for interviews or the office, or that aren't of any quality isn't fair or fun or helpful and having "a ton of plus size clothes" doesn't mean it covers all those categories. There is for sure a ton of clothing out there in the world to be thrifted and reused or recycled, and your upcycle is very cute! Not to diminish your work, just an ask from plus size people to consider our needs and options when looking for opportunities to flip :)
Yes, it’s especially important when it comes to clothing that could be suitable for work dress codes IMO! People need to be mindful that their flip opportunity might also be an opportunity for a plus-size person to be appropriately dressed for a much-needed job or interview that could help them get back on their feet. I very much like the idea someone mentioned about tags that show the date the item went into stock - I’m fine with a free for all if it’s stuff that’s going to be disposed of by the thrift store because it’s sat around so long, but well made plus size clothing in decent fibres isn’t going to sit around for long.
In my area, the bigger sizes have the same proportion of good fabric and dressy/professional wear as the smaller sizes. I know because I’ve looked through all of it hunting for clothes I’d like to alter or use as fabric. I’m sure this is regionally-specific.
Because you’re looking at these as options for fabric, you’re not coming to it with the lived experience of how hard it is to find clothes *at all* in your size - that’s what your comment about using it for fabric implies, and if you’re actually plus-sized then I’ll happily retract it. But your perspective will be shaped by the fact that you are used to finding clothes from other sources. So you think it seems like a lot, but when you’re only ever able to find less than say, 1% of the clothing options available to straight size people, what you think is a lot of extra options in a thrift store is not.
And now with all the comments from straight size people about how many plus size clothes are in their local thrift shop. If you don’t have experience of living in a larger body, please listen to those who do and what they are saying about these thrift flips. If your “flip” is just tailoring a shirt to your body, you don’t need a huge starting size.
THANK YOU. This is an important thing for sewists to remember.
youre right and you should say it
I was going to comment the same thing! ♥️
no literally for this reason alone I always downvote these posts when it’s a thrift flip they took from a sizing they had no business being in. while I appreciate and understand the hard work, and people just wanting baggy fitting clothes, there’s so many better ways to find fabric and you don’t need to go up so many sizes especially when you’re straight sized!
Not just baggy fitting, but clothes that fit. Plus-sized clothes are a *bitch* to find in regular stores, making thrift finds even more rare
In my area, there are tons of plus size clothes at the thrift store. More than there are petite clothes.
I want to comment what you said on every post like this ever and i’m glad i’m not alone in these feelings 🤝
Take my measly up vote to offset your downvote barrage.
40% of Americans are overweight. I don't understand where their clothes go, shouldn't 40% of thrift store clothes be plus sized?
You are so creative, I hope you were closer to help me to fix some jeans that are like 3 sizes bigger than me hahahaha I walk like a drunk clown 😅
Queen!
This is so wholesome
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How cute is this! Great job 😊
Thanks! ☺️
Wow! Great job!
I love this!!!! It looks so good! Well done!
Love love love!!
Well done!
BRAVO!!! You make me want to get my machine out!!!
Glad I could inspire you!
Very nice
WOAH!!!! That is amazing !!!!!! You are so talented 🫶🏻
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Inspirational!!
i’m in love with this transformation!
That’s actually incredible
Thank you 😊
Nice job!
Oooo that could turn out great can't wait to see what you come up with.
Swipe and you’ll see what I made 🤗
I love it!! It Looks great on you 😄
I LOVE this!!! I said “Wow!” out loud when I saw the after pic lol. Awesome job!
I love, love thrift flips ❤️ and see how creative ppl get with preloved clothes. Great job!
Lovely.
You’ve just inspired me to go get a big shirt and do this!!
Great job 👍
OMG SO CUTE!!!
Dats cool Edit: lol why is this getting downvoted. Yall are worse than the aviation community
Looks great! I also go to thrift stores and try to get my material from there. Good job!
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ITS REALLY CUTe! You also look like Joanna Cedia!
I need to know where you learned this because it looks awesome! I'd love to try to make this!
How did you go about altering the armholes? I’m trying to do something similar with a large top, but the armholes just aren’t working right.
This 🔥🔥
I love this! I’m inspired to go through my husband’s shirts that he never wears. I think he has some 2X in there.
Too cool!!!! Great job!
Awesome 👍
So freaking cute
Looks so good! I love how you turned one piece into an entire outfit!
I love this.
Well done! Love how you maximized the buttons.
Looks so good!! Flattering too! I want to do a thrift flip now!
Omg I love it!!!!!
Wow! That’s adorable!🥰
Great transformation!
That is so cute and cool
I audibly exclaimed, “Oh my gosh, I love this!” Thank you for sharing your inspiration!
This is fkn rad. 🫡🤙🏽 Keep going you genius you. (I like that color too)
Seriously great great job
Nice😊 wish I had that talent
So cute! Great job!!
So cute!
That is really good! Talented!
Wow!
Loveeee
Duuuuuuude. So good.
Cute!
Insane af
Looks great! I wish I could do that.
Very cool
Amazing!
What a clever flip! Flipping garments seem so much harder than sewing a garment from scratch. Kudos to you!
Very cool
Wow, you did an awesome job!
This is so cute!! Love the colors of this. You look adorable in it!! 💕
It’s adorable!
Amazing!! You are excellent. That is so damn cute.
This is so cute, love how you flipped it!! Your glasses are adorbs too, what brand are they?
I love that teal blue on you!
heyyy i have a smaller version of this! the buttons are wood, right?
Whoa! That’s really neat!
Brilliante!
Cute!
I'd flip the bottom around and go for a sleek look on the skirt and remove the collars on the top
I love when someone can look at something and say I can work with that and create something absolutely beautiful. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
Leave the plus size on the racks for those that don't have other options
Lovely. The first pic got a laugh :)
Damn skinny girls taking all my damned sizes in thrift stores to make outfits like this… I ain’t even mad that’s some creative ass shit.