Over the last year or two I have cultivated a good relationship with my local tailor (I give her English lessons at cheap rates and she does my tailoring for cheap rates), and the result is that I have been able to be creative with these problem pieces of clothing and get them altered professionally to suit me. It's not possible for everyone to start giving their local tailors English lessons but I do highly recommend finding a good one and developing a good business relationship! It will pay dividends for the way your clothes fit you.
In this video I show how I had a silk dress by Rebecca Taylor go from unwearable (for me) to workable. I bought this lovely dress over EBay but when it arrived I was disappointed to find that the waist was too high, sitting on my rib cage and greatly exaggerating my already pear-shaped figure, and it was also too long. The hem stopped at the widest point of my calves, hiding the shape of my legs below the knee and suggesting they had the shape of inverted tree trunks! A couple of small changes to the waistband and the hemline later and I have a beautiful party frock that suggests more of an hourglass figure and shows my legs to their own advantage.
I hope you enjoy the video and that it inspires you to take any clothes you aren't quite happy with to the tailor to discuss possible alterations. Give me a thumbs up on YouTube if you like it, and subscribe to the blog or the channel if you wish to see more, similar videos. I have a plan to create a series of Take it to the Tailor! videos to show what can be achieved with small alterations on different pieces of clothing.
I'd love to have your comments. Do you alter your clothes, and have you found it works for you?
Thanks for watching!
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