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♫ Make Thrift Buy intro music ♫

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Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 3 of Make

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Thrift Buy. A show where you guys send me[br]clothes that you found online and I try to

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re-create them.[br]Today’s challenge was suggested by Victoria

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Valenzuela, and it’s of this awesome Pin[br]Up Girl Clothing Sailor Dress, which retails

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for $132 dollars. Now I was lucky enough to[br]find this dress at the thrift store the other

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day, which I thought could be used for this[br]project. So…I thought I’d give this one

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a go![br]The first thing I did was to make a cut out

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on the front of the dress, just like the one[br]on the picture.

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I drew the cutout on with chalk, and I hacked[br]away at this with some scissors. Then I folded

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all the raw edges back inside the dress about[br]half an inch, and I stuck some pins in to

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hold it all in place.[br]I then very carefully sewed around the cut

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out really close to the edges. Using a straight[br]stitch but pulling the fabric slightly as

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I went because the dress material was slightly[br]stretchy, and I didn’t want the stitches

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to snap, andddd I ended up with a pretty nice[br]looking cut out.

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Now, there is a distinct lack of anchors on[br]my dress. For this I decided I would make

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a stencil so all my anchor shapes would be[br]the same size, and…I totally forgot what

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anchors looked like. Thank you Google Images![br]First I drew an anchor onto some cardboard,

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and then attempted to cut it out precisely.[br]Which is actually A LOT harder than you would

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think! A good 20 minutes later and I had a[br]real dodgy looking stencil, but…it let me

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trace the basic shape of an anchor so I figured[br]it would be good enough.

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Then I went to the craft store to get some[br]fabric paint, but the guy at the craft store

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actually recommended this Posca pen would[br]work fine on fabric. I was a bit dubious that

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it would show up well on black fabric, but[br]I also thought that using a pen rather than

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paint would be easier so I trusted him and[br]I went for it. And to my amazement, it worked!

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So I did one, and then I just repeated this[br]all over my dress.

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Soo…Five hours and hundreds of anchors later[br]and a shape of an anchor is basically etched

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into my brain. I’m not going to be forgetting[br]what an anchor looks like any time soon. So

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apparently to set the marker into the fabric[br]you iron it at a high temperature without

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steam on the reverse side of the fabric. So[br]I did that. Now, because I have terrible foresight,

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I drew my hundreds of anchors before testing[br]that they would actually stay on the fabric

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when washed.[br]Yeah…

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BUT, to test whether this pen works on fabric[br]I popped the dress into my washing machine.

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I’m really not happy about this.[br][washing machine noises]

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Please be okayyy[br]Yep, and…heaps of them faded. Like…heaps

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are basically gone. Yeah…[br]Okay so…It’s actually not that bad. As

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the dress dried a lot of them became a lot[br]clearer to see, and most stayed on pretty

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well. So, I just went back over the faded[br]ones with the Posca pen again, and I made

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a mental note to myself to only ever gently[br]hand wash the dress in the future.

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So back on track, my dress had a black tie[br]in the front, whereas the one from Pin up

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Girl Clothing has a white tie. So I simply[br]snipped off the black ties. Then I used these

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pieces to make a stencil for two white tie[br]pieces. I added a seam allowance, and also

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made them a little bit longer.[br]I cut out four of these, then pinned them

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together two at a time, and sewed using a[br]straight stitch all away around the edges;

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leaving the bottom edge open so I could turn[br]them the right way around. Then I attached

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these to the front of the dress and sewed[br]them on.

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So the real question is…[br]How did I go?

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♫ music plays ♫[br]So in conclusion, if you’re lucky enough

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to find this style of dress in a thrift store—[br]then this something you can really easily

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make.[br][Scissor snipping and zipper noise effects]

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So my version by Pin Up Girl Clothing: $132.[br]My version: $8.

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Now I do have to say that the one on Pin Up[br]Girl Clothing is probably quite a bit nicer,

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with a full skirt, and inbuilt pockets. Plus[br]my one is black, theirs is navy, BUT I think

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for $8 this is a pretty decent replica.[br]So let me know what you think, and keep those

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suggestions coming, and I’ll see you all[br]next time!

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