Make Thrift Buy #5 Melting Tights (Last Minute Halloween Costume?!)

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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?
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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.

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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!