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Hi. You're watching Make Thrift Buy. A show

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where you send me clothes that you've found
on the internet and I try my best to re-create

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them. Today's challenge was sent in by chrisk
cupcakes, who asked me to re-create this t-shirt

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by The Left Bank which retails for 20 to 30
dollars with 18 dollars shipping on top of

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that if I wanted to buy it.

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So let's go get started.

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First, I drew a city skyline shape onto a
piece of cardboard with pencil. I cut this

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out using scissors. Then I placed this half-way
down on a slightly too-large black t-shirt.

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I also taped the cardboard onto the shirt
with the idea of keeping it in place.

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Then I filled a spray bottle with some bleach,
put on a pair of gloves for safety, and I

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started spraying the t-shirt with the bleach.
I didn't really know how much bleach to use,

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so I kind of just went for it, spraying the
bleach on pretty liberally. I tried to spray

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on the most bleach closest to the skyline
and less up at the top of the shirt. It slowly

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started turning red wherever the bleach was.

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I then carefully tried to remove the cardboard
and this is where I realized I probably shouldn't

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have taped it down. So don't do that.

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But anyway, I then gave the shirt a good rinse.
Then I chucked the shirt in the washing machine

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on its own for a really short cycle. Then
I hung it out on the line to dry.

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Unfortunately, some of the bleach made it
through to the back of the shirt. So I thought,

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“Next time I should put a piece of cardboard
inside the shirt to stop this from happening”.

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For some reason, I then totally forgot to
do this. I proceeded to repeat the same thing

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that I did before, on the back of the t-shirt
this time. At least I didn't stick the stencil

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down on the shirt this time which made removing
the stencil a lot easier.

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Now I ended up with these areas where the
bleach went really blotchy which I think could

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probably be fixed next time by being more
careful to do an even spray across the shirt.

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Nonetheless, I rinsed the bleach off and I
hung it out to dry.

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Okay. So the back sucks, but the front is
actually pretty alright.

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Actually, looking at the original shirt, there's
bigger splotches on that shirt too. So, yeah.

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I totally did the splotches on purpose?

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I then decided to make some of the splotches
more obvious, or something. So I mixed up some

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paint with a little bit of fabric medium and
I started painting blotches onto the back

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of the t-shirt. I then took some artistic
license and turned this blotch down here into

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a UFO. Then somehow that escalated fairly
quickly into a full-blown alien attack apocalyse

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scene complete with falling asteroids and
burning buildings.

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So yeah. That happened.

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I then decided that I would maybe just not
touch the front at all and leave it as it

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was. So after setting the paint into the back
of the shirt using an iron, the last step

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was to cut the arms shorter. As t-shirt material
doesn't fray, I simply rolled the sleeves

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over twice to cuff them.

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[music plays]

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So... I'd say you probably can make this yourself
and, if I was to do it again, I would remember

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to put some cardboard inside the shirt before
I spray it with bleach. That was my main problem.

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But yeah, for 3 dollars, I'm pretty happy
with it. So-

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[scissor and zipper sound effects]

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But if you wanted the real-deal, then I would
suggest checking out Left Bank's website-

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the designer who made the original t-shirt.
The store's actually run by an independent

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designer who hand-makes the stuff themselves
and isn't even terribly expensive. So it's

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a pretty cool company to go and support if
you can afford to.

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Although, theirs is missing a crucial alien
apocalypse scene on the back. Anyway, if you

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enjoyed this episode, then please give me
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my videos, and keep those awesome suggestions
for new challenges coming. I'll see you all

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next time.

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