Easy DIY Clothing Alterations (No Sew!) | DIY with Orly Shani

[Music] oh hi guys happy friday welcome to my channel uh for those of you that are new my name is orly this is the diy designer i do killer diy fashion sometimes home decor release videos every friday and bonus ones on sundays every once in a while and today's video is totally different there is no fancy diy there's no crystals and rhinestones and sparkles there's no glue it's a really great one this is all about no sew alteration hacks these are things that i've been doing my whole life as a teenager started doing these and i still do them now even though i know how to sew sometimes it's because i want it to be a temporary alteration or sometimes it's because i'm just lazy and i don't feel like it or i'm short on time this stuff that you can do today to make sure that the piece you're wearing fits perfectly with the outfit you're wearing and the style you want to convey so i'm really stoked you know how much this channel means to me you know how much you guys mean to me the fact that 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rid of and then we're going to fold it down now this is exactly how you do it when you're actually sewing it it's just instead of sewing we are going to be using safety pins obviously if you know how to sew then when you're watching this you'll know where to stitch it but if you don't know how to sew or you want this to be temporary maybe it looks best cuffed with certain shoes but you want them to be able to be full length the rest of the time take your safety pins and you want to put it right along the edge like as close to the edge of the hem as possible then when you flip it down the hem will be perfectly maintained you can see there it's kind of bubbly right we do need to iron it that's super important whether you're sewing it or using safety pins just press it so that it all becomes really smooth and flat and it all looks like one piece and you can see it looks perfect having that bubble hem that original hem really makes it look like this is the length the jeans always were so it's a great way to get away with hemming your jeans temporarily when you want them this length and then simply undo your safety pins and have them back to your regular length if you want to do that now this is another version of the same idea this is what you can do if you have stretchy uh like jegging type jeans now let's say that's the length you want them well cuffing is a particular look and that might not work with whatever outfit you're doing so another way to do that is grab the fabric and like fold it underneath you see i'm just tucking it underneath i want to go right up to the original hem again maintaining the original bubble hem is absolutely the most important thing here you don't want to fold it under and get rid of it so you fold it under just like that there's my excess i fold it over it lines up perfectly there i am i'm the same length as my cuff jean except i just don't have the cuff it looks like it's perfectly crisp and allows me to have that length and when i want to fold it down i can fold it down really really easy two ways to do it now this is something i do when i have like a wide shoulder this one was actually sewn but i'm going to show you how to do it with safety pins now this originally had like a wide shoulder and it made the sleeves make my body look really broad i didn't think it was flattering i didn't like the way they looked so i sort of created this pleat and sewed it down i'm going to show you how to do it with this shirt now this is a shirt i found at the thrift store super cute michael kors but it was a 2x which is a little big on me so what i thought is this sleeve see how it's like a drop shoulder sometimes that looks cool but on this shirt i just thought it it just made the whole thing look too big like i just couldn't get away with wearing it in a way that was like slouchy i tried tucking it in and it was still too large i tried tying it in the front but again because it was so big it was like hanging down so we're gonna do a few alterations to this one first one we're gonna do is the shoulder now there's my shoulder seam it's inside out right you can see how wide it is i'm gonna create one giant pleat now on the right side of the fabric where this pleat gathers is actually underneath the collar so you're not even gonna see it so i'm grabbing my safety pin and i'm pinning through both layers of fabric making sure that i only come out on the right side of my fabric for like the tiniest bit and go right back in basically like i'm tacking it down so i'm safety pinning it to hold it into place now take a look at the difference there you can see that's what i've turned it into it's maybe two inches wide the shoulder versus that which is about four inches wide so when you're doing the second shoulder you want to start folding it and then kind of grab the first one line them up and make sure that they're even so that obviously your right and left are even make sure that the shoulder seam is on top of each other so that it doesn't look like a little step you want it to be really even and again barely come out on the right side of the fabric so that you're not going to see that safety pin at all now for the back there's all this extra volume this shirt happens to have a seam down the side but that doesn't really matter if yours doesn't don't worry about it you're going to gather two sections however much fabric you want to take out of the back and you're going to use a pretty brooch something that's meant to be seen my shirt now is facing right side out so this is actually being seen from the outside by broaching together those two pieces it takes out a lot of volume now here is the shoulder you can see there's the little gather that i did and the collar covers it that sort of folded down collar covers it it pulled my shoulder in and look how much less volume i have in the body i've got this pretty brooch in the back again you're going to use a brooch that works with whatever shirt you are wearing or dress i do this a lot with dresses and now when i tie it again i've just taken out a lot of extra volume it looks really pretty in the back it lays more flattering through the rest of my body i have more shape in my waist you can choose to do the brooch like right under the bust if you have a larger bust and you want to make sure that your waist is tapered and again you can see everything just falls better because i don't have quite as much volume and it's all done with pins i just want to show you one other quick version this is a big white dress it was like a shirt dress that's just really oversized and so i actually used my big brooch and did it while it was on me it allows you to feel for what fits better and you can see it created a nice straight simple front with a really pretty gathered focal point in the back so again you want to use a pretty brooch so that it looks intentional but from the front you have a much better fit now this is one of my favorite this is a great dress but it's just like bulky the body is a little bit too large and the shoulders are too wide now the shoulders the reason that's an issue is that it has that little gathered sleeve like a mini puff sleeve when that's further out i just feel like it makes it like a linebacker like it's not correct so we're gonna start with the waist now this is a dress that has a like two little belt loops and the belt is obviously meant to go around the front instead of tying it around the front we are going to go through the loops and pull them towards each other basically tying the two loops together in the back and getting rid of all of that volume look at how nice and smooth and soft it is in the front and how pretty it is in the back it looks almost like i don't like a bustle in the back it's got this really pretty asymmetric detail now here's number two i'm gonna unbutton the back because i think that like the neck hole is too wide which is part of the reason that the shoulders are too wide so i'm gonna overlap it until it feels like it's the right fit now when you're really doing this you'd actually probably use two pins you would do one on the right and one on the left that way it's laying fully flat but now you can see from the front not only does my neck hole get a little bit more narrow which i think is more flattering but it pulls the shoulders in the shoulders are pulled in the waist is pulled in and it's all done with that tie in the back that's just taking the two belt loops that already exist on my dress and pull them towards each other and the overlap i need to add that little pin but look at this dress fits me so much better now and it's fully custom because i can adjust the waist as much as i want now here's another version and i think this is easier to understand because i filmed the last one like halfway through here's the belt right it's a dress with two belt loops and a matching belt the way it's supposed to go is tied in the front like this tie it and there you go but it's like kind of frumpy it doesn't give me much shape yes i'm wearing it over jeans so instead take your belt just like that and pull back see how it acts as this like you just like tighten it tighten it as much as you want it looks pretty in the back it creates a beautiful shape in the front that's fully custom to your body because you wear it as tight as you want but that's it you can do this with jackets draped vests anything now here is a top that i love but it's way too open it like falls off the shoulders the front is gaping you're gonna see a bra which i don't like so step one we're gonna take a tiny safety pin overlap it exactly where we would want it and put the pin in place again you want to barely pick up any fabric so that you don't see it on the outside from the outside you see nothing it looks like i sewed in a little hook and eye but i didn't all i did was take a tiny safety pin go through the back side connecting both pieces it's perfectly in place it's not going to open and you cannot see it this is amazing hack for not needing to add snaps or buttons or double stick or anything like that now number two again i think the shoulders on this are a little wide yes i don't know why i still have the tag on this really can't explain it i'm going to put a safety pin in the back and i'm going to put that little amount that i'm safety pinning inside so that it doesn't stick out but look it also brings in my shoulders it brings in the neckline it raises the neckline so all in all now i've created this really beautiful v-neck that i can actually wear with a bra and like normally without feeling like i'm gonna fall out super simple safety pins are the best okay here is a dress a skirt excuse me this is basically like a tight little skirt knee length i want to show you how you can shorten it really creating three skirts out of this you're going to fold it up and fold it back down now normally when i do this i'm trying not to show myself on camera here but basically i'm going to tuck underneath the fabric so what i'm doing is folding my skirt in half but it's underneath it's inside see i'm grabbing the hem and i'm kind of raising it up i can have it fully in half so literally the hem of my skirt is up at my waistband or i can lower it a little bit depending on how long i want the skirt to be the bonus for something like this is the skirt's now double strength so it feels really good on see there's the hem i've just folded it completely in half you can do this by tucking things into your underwear or in this case it's tight enough that i literally just fold it in half inside out from the outside it looks nice and clean and crisp and from the inside it's nice and taut now i also want to show you how to do a ruched skirt or roost dress without sewing take the side seam and grab your safety pin you're going to go in and grab like a half an inch go back out half an inch go back in half an inch i'm basically gathering my fabric and the key here is to gather it as much as you possibly can fit on the safety pin like really jam it in there if the safety pin is loose at all you're going to see the metal of the safety pin from the right side of the fabric that's why you want to make it super tight you're going to add that on close it and there you go you can see it's got a nice ruched detail now if you want it to be longer which i did you're just going to grab a second second safety pin start where you left off and do the exact same thing now when you flip it open we've got a double roosh detail sorry about the lint i don't know what's going on here and there you go you can see it's got this great ruched side now this would work awesome on a bodycon dress on like a long tank dress just to create a little shape around the waist it's really flattering it can disguise a lower section of your belly if it doesn't feel fully flat you feel a little insecure that's a great way of doing it now here's just another version where you can take a long dress and turn it into a mini temporarily again we're doing the same thing we're grabbing it pulling up and pulling down making sure that the entire thing is tucked in now again normally i do this on my own but i'm like trying not to like flash you guys so it's taking me longer but right now it comes up to there that's where the hem of my skirt is all the way up there again creating a tight strong almost like spanx feel for my dress this gives me a full two-in-one dress without cutting my dress and ruining it permanently now here's another thing this is like not a cute look this sweater is too big it does not work with the proportions of the skirt it's a great sweater i wear it with jeans and boots all the time but in this sense it's not great so i'm going to show you how to crop it all you got to do is grab the hem of your sweater this could be a sweatshirt a t-shirt anything grab the hem pull it upside down and tuck it into the underwire of your bra the bra needs to be tight obviously so that it's gonna hold but tuck it in and boom we have a cropped sweater that's got a really cool like high low of course you could tuck the back in as well if you want it to be cropped all the way around this is something that i do all the time it allows me to customize the length of all of the items in my closet you can do the same thing with a skirt pull a skirt all the way up and tuck it into your bra it could go from knee length to mini in a second so use your bra as an anchor then just pull it out and it's back to normal again you're not ruining your clothing here's another version this is a sweater dress i've got it folded in and tucked into my bra in the front and the back now it's this great little sweater that comes right to the edge of my jeans just like i wanted it's not tucked in and bulky in my jeans it just looks like it was always that way when i pull it out adjust my bra back up and i've got my dress back so again anything you want t-shirt sweatshirt dress anything can be tucked into your bra here's another quick version i love this t-shirt i wear it loose all the time but sometimes i don't want to tuck it in or i don't want to wear it loose so again all i'm going to do is tuck it into my bra i can tuck it way high if i want it to be super cropped or just a little bit if i want it like that now here's another thing having cuffed sleeves on like a big t-shirt like this is always a really cute look but they never stay which is super annoying i don't like sewing them that's the way i like them to look but they never stay like that i re-fold them 30 times throughout the day and sewing them looks kind of cheesy like when you can see that it's been sewn so this is a really great way to do it basically you want to fold your shirt in half and just get to like the shoulder you basically are going to grab your safety pin and you're going to go from the back side in through again kind of like barely picking up that outer layer of fabric so that you don't see it constantly double check to make sure you can see it there a little bit that's actually not great you want to keep going until you do not see it at all which is totally possible as you can see keep adjusting it so here fold fold again now this is how i want my shirt to be so now i'm going to access that top half see that's the place that i want a safety pin sure you could do the whole thing but you really don't need to that's the part that you want to keep that's the part that's going to unravel on you so keep going barely picking up the fabric as you can see there you cannot see it at all double check once it's good close the safety pin and you're done now as you see i've got the fold and if i tug on it it's not going to come undone it's not going to stay unraveled it doesn't look cheesy like i've sewn it i don't have double stick which is going to get really gunky on my shirt it's just exactly as i wanted it couple of safety pins three or four on the outer edges and you are good to go all right guys this is our last one i'm going to show you how to change the length of these sleeves now this is a jacket that i think is super cute but the sleeves being long as a dead giveaway that it's too large on me an oversized body drop shoulder longer length is really cool long sleeves is a dead giveaway so i'm gonna go ahead and take in those sleeves now this is exactly what we did with our jeans fold it and cuff it that amount right there that's how much shorter it will get if i want it shorter i keep going if i want it shorter i keep going so fold it until it reaches the length that you want it to be keep going keep going until it's just about right now if you were sewing it you would sew all along that edge just like you would do with your jeans then you would cut off the excess but again this is temporary maybe i don't want to do that permanently maybe i only want to do this for right now or maybe i don't know how to sew grab your safety pins run them right along the edge as close to the edge of the cuff seam as possible once you go all the way around you're gonna fold it down and you'll see that it's a perfect cuff after that you're just gonna leave it tucked in i know it seems like it might be uncomfortable but it's really not it just sort of sits in the cuff and feels kind of like a thicker cuff like when you have your sleeve rolled that's where it's rolled into and you can see i mean it looks great like it's it's perfect so look at these two next to each other right it's really really great if i wanted to i could stitch that down and cut off my excess but if i didn't i don't have to and just so you can see this jacket here is from my meumu like crystal studded flannel jacket and i had to take the sleeves in because they were crazy long because it was a men's jacket so i did exactly what i showed you but i sewed it so i folded it that's all the excess i took out i didn't cut it off yet because i wanted to show you guys what it looks like but i will cut it off you can see that's what it looks like on the inside the stitch i'll cut that off and i'll just seam it up with like a little bit of bias tape but that's it it's clean finished it adjusts the length and you guys we're done all right well i hope that those were useful to you remember a lot of them are a great place to start if you want to hold it that way to see that it works and then get in there and sew it in place and remove those safety pins or whatever i mean some of them are really great way to learn sort of simple alteration techniques that once you learn how to sew you can apply um so i hope that you guys enjoyed this one if you did like this video share it with a friend that you think might find this useful and subscribe if you aren't already subscribed thanks for being here guys i love you i will see you next week you

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Length: 19min 40sec (1180 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020