Fashion Time + photography
With the shorts fully painted (and still a little bit wet), I couldn't help myself but try them on, and instinctively, I felt that the knee-length length was just too much gold. I decided to cuff them myself. Dear gentlemen who read this blog, who probably aren't foolish enough to paint their shorts gold, take heed of this DIY within a DIY. I think DIY-cuffing your shorts is an easy and effective way of making a pair of cutoffs a little smarter and more polished.I folded the hems twice, made sure they were of the same length, and perma-creased them with an iron.I then made the simplest of stitches on the sides of each leg, right on the seams, to lock the cuffs in place. It was just a few stitches in and out of two points, locked at the end, much like sewing on a two-hole button.the shorts, cuffedTo finish it off, I made a highlighting wash out of a few squirts of the fabric paint, water, and very fine glitter.I brushed it over the seams and pockets to bring that subtle bit of extra glint to a pair of shorts that were already quite louche.
Here they are worn, on a day of surprise sunbathing in sweltering SoHo:BDG wide-neck t-shirt, DIY metallic gold shorts, Dr. Martens oxfordsclose-up of the texture and my wolf ring, crafted out of 925 silver by Navajo Indians in New Mexiconew 'do, dubbed by Melanie as the "Nick Wooster swipe"
last three photographs by Mia and Tiffany
2011-07-11