Chic on a Shoestring: Simple to Sew Vintage-Style Accessories

Mary Jane Baxter

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2012 - Crafts & Hobbies - 160 pages

Why throw out your old clothes when they can be transformed for very little money? With an eye for all things 'stylishly vintage', Mary Jane takes throw-away items and illustrates how they can be used to create a host of covetable clothes and accessories. An old tie can be turned into a purse, knitting needle holder, cute corsage and a belt. Silk scarves can make a return as a sexy top or skirt, and T-shirts as funky 40s-style turbans. 'Chic on a Shoestring' will take you through - step-by-step - all you need to know to create fabulous clothes and accessories you actually want to wear, and provide you with lots of variations and inspiration to foster your own style. And with advice on how to find useful treasures at markets, charity shops and vintage stores, you will be making your own creations in no time.

What people are saying

Review: Chic on a Shoestring: Simple to Sew Vintage-Style Accessories

User Review  - Tracy Morton - Goodreads

A few good ideas but most of the ideas are quite dated. Much of the fashion tweaks are pretty tacky. This would be a better book for someone who sews and who has fine motor skills.

Review: Chic on a Shoestring: Simple to Sew Vintage-Style Accessories

User Review  - Dree - Goodreads

Glad I got this from the library. Not chic, not really "on a shoestring" either, unless you score at an estate sale. Weird collars, weird lace, lots of plastic "jewels". And iron-on interfacing is not ...

About the author

Richardson is a former design editor of Country Homes & Interiors and homes editor of Wedding and Home. She now works as a freelance stylist and photographer for numerous of magazines and large companies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chic on a Shoestring: Simple to Sew Vintage-Style Accessories
• Author: Mary Jane Baxter
• Photographs by: Claire Richardson
• Illustrated by: Sam Wilson
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2012
• ISBN: 0399159592, 9780399159596
• Length: 160 pages
• Subjects: Crafts & Hobbies / Fashion; Crafts & Hobbies / Jewelry; Crafts & Hobbies / Sewing