Customising your clothes is a really good (but really difficult) way to express individuality and revive some old clothes.
I was in Portobello on Saturday, looking for a coat, you know, winter's closing in and all that. I came across a stall with an over-eccentric owner, selling restyled and customised coats, they were gorgeous. However, they were badly made, I wasn't going to fork out 70quid for something that would fall apart, I left, disappointed.
It got me thinking how difficult it is to customise clothes to other people's tastes. Firstly and most importantly, if you are going to customise existing clothes, do it to your own taste, not copying others to look cool. Secondly, almost as nearly as important, don't over do it. No one wants to look like a walking haberdashery shop. In this case, less really is more.
Use your imagination and be creative, attach badges , pieces of material and beads to create a new look to an old t-shirt. They sell for £20 in Topshop!
A word of advice, when customising; Dip-dyed and tie-dyed material went out of fashion in the 80's. They aren't coming back... ever.
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