Here’s a quick tutorial that’s helpful if you happen to buy a cheap tube dress (I did) and it stretches out after only two wearings (it did), introducing the danger of an inadvertent boob-reveal (danger!). Since the dress was made of jersey fabric, all I had to do was find a T-shirt hem in my scrap pile that matched the color. (Note: You can use a contrasting color, too–up to you!). Here’s how you can add straps to any tube top.
Ingredients:
Tube top or tube dress
T-shirt hem
scissors
4 straight pins
needle
thread
1. Find a scrap T-shirt hem (or find a T-shirt whose hem you can cut off) whose color matches the base garment. The fabric strip should be the entire circumference of the hem and about 3/4″ to 1″ wide.
2. Stretch the hem strip to make it cord-like and then cut it into four equal pieces.
3. Turn the base garment inside out and pin one end of one of the strips to the top edge.
4. Repeat with the other three strips, making sure the strips are spaced equally from the edges and equally apart on each side. Then sew them in place using a straight (running) stitch), hiding your stitches along existing seams in the garment.
5. Remove the pins and turn the garment right side out. Try on your new strapped garment and tie each pair of ends over each shoulder. Now go frolic, knowing that your old garment isn’t going to slip when you jump up to catch that frisbee.
[ Posted on August 30th, 2009 ]
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