Charming boy is charming (DIY thread)

[sknss]

Tell us about your DIY projects so that I can steal your ideas later.

[can-]

my roommate made me this fake comme wallet for my birthday



riri zip and shit

[sknss]

nice, you should invite her here!

what does it look like closed?

[bels]

why do you assume its a girl sknss that's sexist

[Syeknom]

[sknss]

do you even read ben's posts bela, psh

[bels]

Why do you assume he has only one room mate?

[sknss]

how many fashion oriented roommates can one have

[Syeknom]

Only one, it's the limit

[can-]

think im gonna cut up some of my dads old shirts and enlist mom to put locker loops on a couple of my more rugged button ups that lack them.

[bels]

I actually use my locker loops when I'm at the gym and it's great.

[YoungCanoeist]

The Noragi Project

After bela's suggestion, I thought it would be really nice to make a noragi with my grandma (who was a seamstress) before I left for school. I struggle with being verbose, so here's some pictures.











the body is done!



a little while later



making the collar





and the final product:







open



closed



with belt tied in the back.

legit fit pics to come soon!

[can-]

[YoungCanoeist]

Hahahahahaha A+

[starfox64]

what is it made out of? how long did it take you to make? where did you find the patterns?

[YoungCanoeist]

It's actually just a chino fabric like hiroki does. It worked pretty well, it's got some weight to it.

Took about a week but only because my grandma is so good at making clothes haha!

The patterns were in a book (first two pics) that she had. It was entirely in Japanese so I have no idea what it was or where it was from. But it's pretty much a kimono but cropped to waist length and visvim made it a modern design my slimming the sleeves to more of a shirt-like width. My grandma really dislikes that change lol. She laughed when I told her that vis noragis go for $800 because (she said) farmers back in the day would pay next to nothing for them! Lol. Grandmas on the vis hate train.

[can-]

drop out of college and start selling those to the internet for 350$ MTM noragi made by japanizu obaasan

[bels]

centrica must be close to the ideal visvim customer for their whole "Japanese style americana" jizz.

[RycePooding]

But can we get a: CARETAGS15 code?

[sknss]

eccentrica, where do you buy your fabrics?

i went to a few fabric stores looking for plaid but everything is so expensive. maybe i'm cheap too.
anyway i will gladly accept anyone's old flannels

[sknss]

RycePooding send me your flannels >(smiling)

[can-]

what are you trying to make sknss?

[RycePooding]

dont you live in france

[sknss]

some kind of junya patchwork shirt

and yes ;(

[can-]

sknss, anyone in america with access to a goodwill/savers/etc could easily pick up as many plaid flannel shirts as you want for about 2-3$ a pop. let me know if you want

[RycePooding]

Ya salvation army in my town has them for legit 1 dollar, some cool ones too.

[sknss]

yeah i might take you up on that offer when i'm back home. thanks!

[YoungCanoeist]

also throwing my hat in for copping old flannel 4u sknss. also i don't think there are notifications but check my rating of your earlier comment (where i get fabrics)

[sknss]

thanks eccentrica!

[ramseames]

Will add more pictures when I get home on the 8th but basically I added a very simple strap to make a sling for my NSW fishtail.





Bought 1" nylon webbing and a plastic strap adjuster like so;

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Spent like $15 on it because I didn't want to risk breaking stuff and running out of materials, but realistically you could do it for <$5.