Customize Your Clothes: A Head-to-Toe Guide to Reinventing Your Wardrobe

by Rain Blanken

For crafters, designers, and any stylish individual who has ever wanted to recreate a runway look or simply put their own mark on their wardrobe, this book is the ultimate inspirational resource. Customize Your Clothes is a one-stop DIY guide that covers customizing all essential garments and accessories from head to toe, showing readers how to transform, deconstruct, and/or upcycle their wardrobe by bleaching, beading, stitching, distressing, spray-painting, and much, much more. Customize Your Clothes breaks down designs for each fashion item, from dresses and skirts to T-shirts, shoes, and purses and profiles emerging talent as well as pioneering designers in the field. Hundreds of designs on fashion items are photographed in stunning detail to inspire the budding designer. Chapters on each process and technique give step-by-step advice on putting your designs on clothing and accessories, from screen-printing through embroidery, batik, fabric painting, and innovative techniques for stenciling. A back-of book resource section supplies a quick guide to the properties of different fabric types and the techniques and materials that can be used with them. All essential information for decking out your duds is packed into one stunning package.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sewing, Crafts

192 pages, Hardcover

First published April 10, 2012

About the author

Writing in 3rd person about herself, Elmo, err, I mean Rain, would like you to know that she specializes in writing about crafty style and adventurous travel destinations. Rain is the author of 'The Complete Guide to Customizing Your Clothes', which showcases lots of ways to turn your clothes into Your Clothes.

Rain's craft writings have been featured in the handmade style book, State of Craft (Victoria Woodcock; Cicada, 2011), and she is currently the Guide to DIY Fashion at About.com. Rain's travel work has been featured online at Barnes & Noble's 'Sparknotes.com' and Dguides.com.

Rain is a mother of three and wife of one. She is a full-time writer breathing in the sweet, sweet Dayton, Ohio lifestyle, and enjoys various movies and activities similar to your own, which makes her easy for you to relate to.

Reviews

[Tamara]

Why do I even pretend? I'm way too lazy to make things.

(Covers bleaching, coloring, printing, embellishments, deconstruction...)

[Annie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything a newbie could want for inspiration to begin upcycling and revamping your closet!

[Jutta · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to do all of it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cheri]

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