Customising a cardigan - please need advice
Customising a cardigan - please need advice
I just wanted some advice really!
I brought a cardigan off ebay for 99p and it is gorgeous very fitted and tight but it has pearl buttons which I am not keen on !
What sort of buttons could I replace them with!
I was thinking of diamonte ones or is that a bit naff?
Also I was thinking of making it into like a wrap style cardigan cos its open all the way down the front to the waist then its ribbed around the waist and has 4 buttons but I could easily sew the buttons on to the side part so it would fasten on the side and it would make it a sexy tight crossover style do you think that would be ok?
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any advice please?
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Choose whatever buttons go with the material and style - diamante might work fine.
If it's already tight, I'm not sure you want to stretch it any further by making it a wrap style :cmeek: - nothing looks worse than straining overstretched ribbing! If you want to covert something to wrap style, it really needs to be on the big side.
Anyway, making something wrap style isn't quite as easy as just moving the buttons on one side - you'll need to do something equivalent on the other side as well (a tie or button on the inside, as you'd have in a wrap dress or top), otherwise it won't sit right and will just look unsymmetrical. It's not that easy to do properly, so I'd just leave it with changing the buttons.
g_k
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I was thinking of changing the buttons on a couple of boring cardis I have after seeing some really cute buttoned things in H&M and a quirky shop in Oxford. I was thinking of changing regular buttons to a contrasting colour - for the pink cardi, I'm thinking red flower shaped buttons and the black cardi, green or red heart shaped ones. Where I'll find these I don't know - I do keep meaning to visit VW Rouleaux though...
I agree with g_k that making it into a wrap cardi might be tricky though (even ones I've got that have been deliberately made as wrap cardis sometimes don't fit right).
What's your cardi like and what colour is it?
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well I have tried to style it like a wrap style and it looks quite good but of course I have not moved the buttons yet!
Its like a cornflower blue really nice and summery would look nice with a little white top underneath!
I just wanted some advice really!
I brought a cardigan off ebay for 99p and it is gorgeous very fitted and tight but it has pearl buttons which I am not keen on !
What sort of buttons could I replace them with!
I was thinking of diamonte ones or is that a bit naff?
Also I was thinking of making it into like a wrap style cardigan cos its open all the way down the front to the waist then its ribbed around the waist and has 4 buttons but I could easily sew the buttons on to the side part so it would fasten on the side and it would make it a sexy tight crossover style do you think that would be ok?
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any advice please?
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Choose whatever buttons go with the material and style - diamante might work fine.
If it's already tight, I'm not sure you want to stretch it any further by making it a wrap style :cmeek: - nothing looks worse than straining overstretched ribbing! If you want to covert something to wrap style, it really needs to be on the big side.
Anyway, making something wrap style isn't quite as easy as just moving the buttons on one side - you'll need to do something equivalent on the other side as well (a tie or button on the inside, as you'd have in a wrap dress or top), otherwise it won't sit right and will just look unsymmetrical. It's not that easy to do properly, so I'd just leave it with changing the buttons.
g_k
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I was thinking of changing the buttons on a couple of boring cardis I have after seeing some really cute buttoned things in H&M and a quirky shop in Oxford. I was thinking of changing regular buttons to a contrasting colour - for the pink cardi, I'm thinking red flower shaped buttons and the black cardi, green or red heart shaped ones. Where I'll find these I don't know - I do keep meaning to visit VW Rouleaux though...
I agree with g_k that making it into a wrap cardi might be tricky though (even ones I've got that have been deliberately made as wrap cardis sometimes don't fit right).
What's your cardi like and what colour is it?
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well I have tried to style it like a wrap style and it looks quite good but of course I have not moved the buttons yet!
Its like a cornflower blue really nice and summery would look nice with a little white top underneath!