
After my last sewing project, which was long and complex, I wanted to obtain a more immediate gratification. Therefore, upcycling a man shirt was the perfect project. The idea of this refashion came from the shirt’s girly colour. You may wonder what a girly colour is…
Here’s the lavender color shirt, a little wrinkled, waiting its turn :
I cut the shirt into pieces: bodice, sleeves and collar. I removed the collar and cuffs as they were too worn:
I rose the underarm line and re-draw the side lines to get a closer fit to the body:
I shortened the bottom of the shirt with 10cm:
By cutting the sleeves, I was able to retrieve two strips of seamless fabric of ten centimeters wide each:
These fabric strips, folded in half, were then transformed into ruffles :
Introducing the new shirt with ruffled sleeves and stand collar :
The result is a girly shirt in a man color. With all these transformations, even the color has changed sex. Or is it me who has changed her mind? Meanwhile, the shirt has changed its owner.




That is so creative and I love the end result.
You’re right! It IS like the colour changed! It’s SO feminine, hard to imagine it was ever a man’s shirt – love the fit too, gorgeous!
What a lovely result! I must try this at home! 🙂