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Hi! Welcome to Make Thrift Buy, a show where
you guys send clothes from the internet and I try to recreate them.
Today’s challenge was sent in by Jenny Pepper, who suggested these melting tights from URB
Clothing, which are handmade, latex, and retail from $55 to $80. Now these tights are by an
awesome handmade designer, and if you can afford to you should totally go and support
them, but if you’re anything like me and there’s no way you can spend $55 dollars on a pair
of tights, well…Maybe we can make these for ourselves. So let’s give it a go!
So I started out with a pair of sheer tights that match my skin colour, and this three-dimensional
fabric paint that I found on Ebay.
[Annotation: You can get single bottles for cheaper – see the links in the video description]
As soon as I saw that there was glittery paint I had to have that one, but there are non-glittery
types if that’s not your thing. I also got myself a large piece of cardboard which I
rolled up into the approximate width of my leg, and I stretched one leg of the stockings
on over the cardboard, and I started painting. I basically just did these long drips down
the length of the tights in what I thought what looked like a melting style.
And then using a paint brush I try to blend the paint at the top of the tights because,
well that’s what the ones URB Clothing looked like and I’m trying to re-create them. With
one leg done I set this outside in the sunshine to dry for a few hours. Then it was simply
a matter of removing the tights from the— Wait…
Oh…it’s stuck. It’s totally stuck. So the cardboard and the tights have dried
together and now they won’t come apart! About an hour later I finally manage to release
the tights from the cardboard, but unfortunately a lot of the cardboard came with it, and I
almost gave up at this point when I discovered that scrubbing off cardboard with a wet cloth
seemed to do the trick. So I saved them and I was back on track!
For the second leg, I was smarter, and this time I put two coat hangers together like
this. This insured that the tights would be stretched, and that also that the opposite
sides wouldn’t stick to each other. For this leg I took it outside, clipped it onto
my washing line so I wouldn’t get paint everywhere, and then I did the same technique
dripping paint technique as before. Except that I didn’t blend the paint at the top
this time, and again I let the tights dry for a couple of hours.
So this time they easily came off the clothes hanger, but it was at this point I realized...mmm…this
was probably not such a good colour for dripping tights. It looks like blood, anddd I don’t
think that having blood dripping down your legs when you’re a girl is never really
going to be a look that’s in vogue. Also another massive fail was where I tried to
blend in the paint at the top of the tights. This stopped the tights from having ANY kind
of stretch to them. So I couldn’t actually get this leg onto my own leg. I’m just going
to go quietly into the cupboard of my…other…failed DIY projects.
SO with my new knowledge of what worked and what doesn’t work I tried it out again on
a fresh pair of tights using some lilac paint this time, and the coat hanger method.
I slipped the tights onto my coat hangers, one leg at a time, painted in this dripping
kind of fashion, and I let them dry overnight, and this time?
It worked! Well, okay kind of. I mean…they don’t
look anywhere near as good as the ones from URB Clothing, but I mean they’re really
not that bad, and because I stuffed up so many times the price tag was getting towards
the original price of the tights, but if you didn’t stuff up as much as me, and you bought
three-dimensional fabric paint in single bottles then you could feasibly make this from the
$10 dollars and it would be totally worth it.
So, my conclusion? [scissor snipping sound effect]
Heck yeah you can make these yourself! They’re not going to be as cool as the ones from URB
Clothing, but I still think that they’re pretty effective.
So make sure to give this video a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel because that really
helps me out. Happy Crafting and if you have any more suggestions
for clothes that you see on the internet that you’d like me to try out the just let me
know by leaving me a comment below, and I’ll see you all next time!