Make your own suit

[sebbie]

My plan is to take some old suits with rips or tears and see if I can make repairs on them. I already did a couple and the repairs turned out good enough to make the suits wearable again. But these were typically small rips near the waistband.

Next up, I might try cutting an old stretched-out suit along the original seams, and then sew it back together into a smaller, but better-fitting size. Maybe I will try running a long butt-seam to snug it up too.

The lady in the video has some interesting ideas on how to sew elastic and get it to come out even using the "dot" method.

I've snugged up stretched-out jock-strap straps with some success by simply cutting them completely in two in the middle and overlapping them an inch or two and running several stitches in the overlapped area. I've been repairing holes in compression tees and shorts by simply folding along the hole on the reverse side of the item and running a long stitch just inside of the hole. You get a dart on the outside where the hole was and the garment is quite serviceable again., I've been repairing holes in the toes and heels of athletic socks the same way.

Basically I have nothing to lose with these experiments and I might get something back that is wearable again.

Always fun to see how the revamped product fits and looks.

Sebbie