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