How to Pin - Go from Baggy to Fitted without sewing!
Sometimes really good costumes land in the clearance because they just don't fit right. Many of these items can be quickly and easily adjusted to look fantastic with no sewing ability at all. You have have heard people say "Just pin it up", but if no one ever showed you how to do that, your results may not be acceptable.
Today's Clearance Spot light is one of the Uptown Girl costumes from Rubies, currently in the clearance section for $38. These were extremely popular for several years at Beauty and the Beast Costumes, Chattanooga, but only if we had time to pin up the jackets for the customers. The problem was that the pants fit nice and tight, but the jackets just kind of hang like a bag. Most of the young women who wanted these costumes wanted to show off their curves! Here's how you can do it at home, with these Red or Neon green 'pimp girl' costumes, or with just about anything else. The same techniques apply.
All you need for this Jacket Re-Do is three large safety pins and a trusted friend. First, turn the garment inside out. Put it on and button it. Have your friend loosely grab the back of the jacket to figure out where to start. Then using a large safety pin, start on one side where you were holding it and just weave the pin in and out to the other side. Close it up. We did this one rather quickly, but you will get better results if go slow and make your pleats even.
If you are alone, you can still do this with the help of a pencil or chalk. Just hold the garment together in the back and mark where your fingers and thumb are grasping the material. Take the jacket off and weave the pin through the fabric between the marks. This may take a couple of tries to get it just right.
If your bust is much larger than your waist, you will want to do the same in the front with two pins, shown with yellow arrows. Do not make it TO TIGHT as the pins can tear holes in the fabric! Give yourself some room to breath and move.
This is the back view, a little out of focus, of how this gathering should look in the back.
Please notice that these costumes include the hat. At Beauty and the Beast Costumes, Chattanooga, we REMOVE the hats from the bags so they still look nice when you buy one, even out of the clearance.
Now, if you've got yourself looking good, and you need a Mac Daddy to hang out with, we just marked the black leather look suits down half price from $80 to just $40! Men's costumes do not include hats. At the time of this writing, we still have them in Medium, Large and Extra Large.
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