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*laughs* Oh this poor shirt. This is its fifth incarnation, and I'm only now happy with it.

It was a free shirt from Ohayocon 2004, which I got free in 2005. It was a shapeless tshirt, though, so I rarely wore it, except when doing yardwork or other such dirty things.

When my mom and I got together to tie-dye some stuff, I decided to tie-dye this shirt because it was getting kinda gross and spotty from all the outdoors-y stuff I'd done in it. So it was dyed but the front graphic made the blue look plain, so I wasn't very happy with it, only really liked the back.

But, it seemed a waste not to use something I'd dyed, so I started using it as a pillowcase. Which would've worked, 'cept the shirt was too short, so my pillows were constantly falling out of it. I eventually got mad enough at it to take it off and use a real pillowcase, but it still seemed a waste to not use the shirt ...

... so I chopped the neckline out and started wearing it to sleep. Chopped the hem off too because hems are really useful, I figured I could cut it off and put it in my scrap box, use it some other time.

Yesterday, I got up and felt the urge to mod a shirt. I have a shirt from the college that just hired me, and I was thinking of mod'ing it, but I didn't want to do that to my new shirt without trying it out first. So little tye-dye, which I had been wearing to sleep in the night before, got to be the guinea pig.

And lo and behold: a shirt I like and can wear in public.

One of the easiest mods I've done, and one which I came up with myself, this is SUPER-EASY. Chop out the neckline and hem, slice up the sleeve, bunch each shoulder, cut the hem in half and use it for the ties. And boom! Shirt!

~m

[EDIT]: In case anyone wants to make a shirt like this, I made a tutorial: [link]

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*laughs* Oh this poor shirt. This is its fifth incarnation, and I'm only now happy with it.

It was a free shirt from Ohayocon 2004, which I got free in 2005. It was a shapeless tshirt, though, so I rarely wore it, except when doing yardwork or other such dirty things.

When my mom and I got together to tie-dye some stuff, I decided to tie-dye this shirt because it was getting kinda gross and spotty from all the outdoors-y stuff I'd done in it. So it was dyed but the front graphic made the blue look plain, so I wasn't very happy with it, only really liked the back.

But, it seemed a waste not to use something I'd dyed, so I started using it as a pillowcase. Which would've worked, 'cept the shirt was too short, so my pillows were constantly falling out of it. I eventually got mad enough at it to take it off and use a real pillowcase, but it still seemed a waste to not use the shirt ...

... so I chopped the neckline out and started wearing it to sleep. Chopped the hem off too because hems are really useful, I figured I could cut it off and put it in my scrap box, use it some other time.

Yesterday, I got up and felt the urge to mod a shirt. I have a shirt from the college that just hired me, and I was thinking of mod'ing it, but I didn't want to do that to my new shirt without trying it out first. So little tye-dye, which I had been wearing to sleep in the night before, got to be the guinea pig.

And lo and behold: a shirt I like and can wear in public.

One of the easiest mods I've done, and one which I came up with myself, this is SUPER-EASY. Chop out the neckline and hem, slice up the sleeve, bunch each shoulder, cut the hem in half and use it for the ties. And boom! Shirt!

~m

[EDIT]: In case anyone wants to make a shirt like this, I made a tutorial: [link]