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[Intro music]

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Hi everyone, and welcome to episode two of

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Make Thrift Buy. A show where you guys send
me in cool clothes that you find on the internet,

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and I try and recreate that item either through
DIY or thrifting, or a combination of the

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two.
Today I’m going to attempt to re-create

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a clueless inspired outfit. So the original
outfit is from a store called: Glitters For

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Dinner, and it’s $85 for a coordinated set,
BUT I’m pretty confident that we can get

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away with making this ourselves for under
$10. So, let’s get started!

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So I start with a stretchy tartan fabric that
I got second hand, and I folded it in half.

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So to make the template for my top I just
take this tight fitting dress whose shape

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that I like and I place this on top of the
fabric, with the middle of the dress on the fold.

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[Annotation: I am adding an extra “seam allowance” of ½ an inch]

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I trace around the top part of the dress,

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and then I simply cut through both layers
of fabric. Then I unfolded this and I have

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a top…looking…thing.
Then I repeat this step so I have two identical

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pieces. One will be the front and the other
will be the back.

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Now I’m going to make some darts on my top
(you totally don’t have to do this). Start

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by making a marking right in the middle of
your top, and then make two more markings

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three inches out or however wide you want
your darts to be. So on one of your darts

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(and you’ll do this with both), but on one
of them do a dot that us about five to six

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inches away from the bottom of your top. And
then make this into a triangle by making two

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marks half an inch apart connecting this with
the top dot, and making a pretty triangle!

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Also draw a line straight up the middle of
the triangle, and then simply fold the fabric

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on this middle line, and using a straight
stitch on your sewing machine sew along the

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edge of the triangle.
And you should end up with a pretty dart like

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this! Repeat this on both sides.
And if I did this again, I would do the dart

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on the side rather than the front, but it’s
up to your own personal preference.

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[Annotation This is your lining fabric. It
doesn’t have to be the same pattern but it *MUST* be stretchy]

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Then I placed each of these pieces face down,

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on another piece of fabric and I pin it on,
and cut around it. And leave them pinned together.

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So I do this with the front and I also do
this with the back piece as well and…ughhh…I

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haven’t cut enough fabric…
I’m not cutting another piece of fabric

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so I’m just going to pin this together,
cut the excess off, and hope for that my seam

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allowance was wide enough.
So now that I’ve got both of the pieces

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pinned together, I sew them together like
this.

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[Annotation: sew around all the edges EXCEPT
for the bottom!]

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And I use a zig-zag stitch.
Using a small zig-zag stitch on stretchy fabrics

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is best because otherwise your thread will
break.

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Now here comes the fun bit!
Turn this piece inside out, and you have a

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top kind of thing! Or a hat! Yeah, I think
by this time I might have contracted sewing

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madness.
In any case you should now have both a front

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and a back piece sewn together with their
linings.

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So you need to place these on top of each
other, front sides together, and pin them

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together at the shoulders and the sides. And
then you just need to sew like this. And again,

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use a zig-zag stitch.
Turn it inside out.

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Wait for it.
Wait for it.

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Anddd, you’re done!
Well, almost. You’re going to need to hem

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the raw edge at the bottom here. So you’ll
have two layers, the lining and the front

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part. You need to fold both of these up about
an inch or so and pin them together, and you

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need to do this on both the front and the
back, and then sew an inch away from the edge

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all the around the front and back sides.
Now the top I was basing this off also had

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a collar, but as I was feeling lazy I just
got this dress with a white collar that I

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got from the Op shop, and I cut the bottom
off. Made it into a cropped kind of thing,

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cut the sleeves off so you wouldn’t see
them underneath an- wore it under my top.

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[music plays]

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And that’s it! That’s my Clueless outfit!

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Oh, and I also made a matching skirt which
I did using my circle skirt tutorial which

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you can visit here to learn how to do.
So, my conclusion?

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[Scissor snipping sound effect]
You can totally make this yourself. It only

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took me two hours and all you need to know
is some really simple stitches.

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Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you all
next time!

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[outro music]