Wardobe sanity check time!

[cupcake_goth]

So, I have this stripy blazer. It's by Ralph Lauren (thank you, Marshalls!), it's got a lovely shape, and I've done some tailoring to it to make it fit me even better. But the black stripes are a skosh narrow. They are not wide enough for my preferred Beetlejuice/circus aesthetic.

While I was waiting (and waiting, and waiting) to fall asleep last night, I was thinking about this blazer, and what I could do to it. "Oooh!" I thought, "I could take some 7/8" black ribbon and sew it down each stripe. Huh. Or I could paint over the stripes."

Now, in the vaguely rational light of day, I realize I perhaps should get a sanity check on these ideas. That's where you people come in.



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Help me, LJ hivemind! Be my sanity check! (Stop laughing.)

Comments

[oldhalloween.livejournal.com]

Is the jacket lined? That might add to the complications. If you go the ribbon route taking the sleeves off and opening the sleeve seam you could just top stitch ribbon on a sewing machine. Hand or machine either way the ribbon end should probably go in to a seam so seam ripping the sleeves from the bodice would be a project. Hope that made sense. Selling it to L and finding the right jacket would save much hair pulling. The other option would be to find the ideal fabric and have a custom jacket made for you.