1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,980 [intro music] 2 00:00:03,020 --> 00:00:05,279 Hi! Welcome to Make Thrift Buy, a show where 3 00:00:05,299 --> 00:00:08,480 you guys send clothes from the internet and I try to recreate them. 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:12,940 Today’s challenge was sent in by Jenny Pepper, who suggested these melting tights from URB 5 00:00:12,940 --> 00:00:18,740 Clothing, which are handmade, latex, and retail from $55 to $80. Now these tights are by an 6 00:00:18,740 --> 00:00:22,150 awesome handmade designer, and if you can afford to you should totally go and support 7 00:00:22,150 --> 00:00:25,990 them, but if you’re anything like me and there’s no way you can spend $55 dollars on a pair 8 00:00:25,990 --> 00:00:29,779 of tights, well…Maybe we can make these for ourselves. So let’s give it a go! 9 00:00:29,779 --> 00:00:34,030 So I started out with a pair of sheer tights that match my skin colour, and this three-dimensional 10 00:00:34,030 --> 00:00:35,160 fabric paint that I found on Ebay. 11 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:36,900 [Annotation: You can get single bottles for cheaper – see the links in the video description] 12 00:00:36,980 --> 00:00:39,800 As soon as I saw that there was glittery paint I had to have that one, but there are non-glittery 13 00:00:39,810 --> 00:00:43,730 types if that’s not your thing. I also got myself a large piece of cardboard which I 14 00:00:43,730 --> 00:00:47,670 rolled up into the approximate width of my leg, and I stretched one leg of the stockings 15 00:00:47,670 --> 00:00:53,079 on over the cardboard, and I started painting. I basically just did these long drips down 16 00:00:53,079 --> 00:01:00,079 the length of the tights in what I thought what looked like a melting style. 17 00:01:01,390 --> 00:01:05,059 And then using a paint brush I try to blend the paint at the top of the tights because, 18 00:01:05,059 --> 00:01:09,280 well that’s what the ones URB Clothing looked like and I’m trying to re-create them. With 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,299 one leg done I set this outside in the sunshine to dry for a few hours. Then it was simply 20 00:01:14,299 --> 00:01:18,799 a matter of removing the tights from the— Wait… 21 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:26,399 Oh…it’s stuck. It’s totally stuck. So the cardboard and the tights have dried 22 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:33,259 together and now they won’t come apart! About an hour later I finally manage to release 23 00:01:33,259 --> 00:01:39,030 the tights from the cardboard, but unfortunately a lot of the cardboard came with it, and I 24 00:01:39,030 --> 00:01:43,390 almost gave up at this point when I discovered that scrubbing off cardboard with a wet cloth 25 00:01:43,390 --> 00:01:47,540 seemed to do the trick. So I saved them and I was back on track! 26 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:52,110 For the second leg, I was smarter, and this time I put two coat hangers together like 27 00:01:52,110 --> 00:01:56,049 this. This insured that the tights would be stretched, and that also that the opposite 28 00:01:56,049 --> 00:02:00,299 sides wouldn’t stick to each other. For this leg I took it outside, clipped it onto 29 00:02:00,299 --> 00:02:03,560 my washing line so I wouldn’t get paint everywhere, and then I did the same technique 30 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,820 dripping paint technique as before. Except that I didn’t blend the paint at the top 31 00:02:06,820 --> 00:02:10,950 this time, and again I let the tights dry for a couple of hours. 32 00:02:10,950 --> 00:02:16,739 So this time they easily came off the clothes hanger, but it was at this point I realized...mmm…this 33 00:02:16,739 --> 00:02:22,299 was probably not such a good colour for dripping tights. It looks like blood, anddd I don’t 34 00:02:22,299 --> 00:02:26,169 think that having blood dripping down your legs when you’re a girl is never really 35 00:02:26,169 --> 00:02:30,549 going to be a look that’s in vogue. Also another massive fail was where I tried to 36 00:02:30,549 --> 00:02:34,620 blend in the paint at the top of the tights. This stopped the tights from having ANY kind 37 00:02:34,620 --> 00:02:40,449 of stretch to them. So I couldn’t actually get this leg onto my own leg. I’m just going 38 00:02:40,449 --> 00:02:44,120 to go quietly into the cupboard of my…other…failed DIY projects. 39 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:49,430 SO with my new knowledge of what worked and what doesn’t work I tried it out again on 40 00:02:49,430 --> 00:02:53,889 a fresh pair of tights using some lilac paint this time, and the coat hanger method. 41 00:02:53,889 --> 00:02:57,919 I slipped the tights onto my coat hangers, one leg at a time, painted in this dripping 42 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,760 kind of fashion, and I let them dry overnight, and this time? 43 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,740 It worked! Well, okay kind of. I mean…they don’t 44 00:03:06,749 --> 00:03:10,790 look anywhere near as good as the ones from URB Clothing, but I mean they’re really 45 00:03:10,790 --> 00:03:15,829 not that bad, and because I stuffed up so many times the price tag was getting towards 46 00:03:15,829 --> 00:03:20,870 the original price of the tights, but if you didn’t stuff up as much as me, and you bought 47 00:03:20,870 --> 00:03:24,939 three-dimensional fabric paint in single bottles then you could feasibly make this from the 48 00:03:24,939 --> 00:03:27,219 $10 dollars and it would be totally worth it. 49 00:03:27,219 --> 00:03:30,389 So, my conclusion? [scissor snipping sound effect] 50 00:03:30,389 --> 00:03:33,870 Heck yeah you can make these yourself! They’re not going to be as cool as the ones from URB 51 00:03:33,870 --> 00:03:35,819 Clothing, but I still think that they’re pretty effective. 52 00:03:35,819 --> 00:03:40,709 So make sure to give this video a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel because that really 53 00:03:40,709 --> 00:03:43,999 helps me out. Happy Crafting and if you have any more suggestions 54 00:03:43,999 --> 00:03:47,299 for clothes that you see on the internet that you’d like me to try out the just let me 55 00:03:47,299 --> 00:03:50,780 know by leaving me a comment below, and I’ll see you all next time!