3 High-Necked Tops Refashioned |

Since I looked through all the clothes I own, and after realised how many of them I never wear, I decided to see which ones I could make into garments I would wear.

A few years ago, I bought 3 tops – I think from New Look – in blue, green and cream and at the time I liked them, but I’d gone off them recently, mostly because they were too tight on my neck and felt a bit strangle-y! Here they are before:

They all look like this on the back. The blue and cream ones were a little big (the green one is a size smaller).

The first thing I did was to unpick the collar from them all:

(I won’t post 3 identical photos of the collars off!)

I decided to just hem the neckline of the cream one. But for the green and blue ones I decided to make little peter pan collars for them – the blue one from its own collar and the green one from the cream collar, for a contrast.

I used the collar from my refashioned dress as a pattern. I had to sew the collars down all the way around as they kept rolling up. The only other change I made was to take in the cream one by about an inch – the blue one turned out to not be as big in the end. I’m pretty pleased with all of the results as I now have 3 tops I can wear!

The back of the cream one – I sewed one of the buttons and button loops from the original collar back on as a fastening.

Close up of the neck hem – you can just about make out the interesting stitch I used on my sewing machine!

And a close-up of the collar:

I think the green one is my favourite:

The back:

I thought I would share this goofy photo to finish…..

11 thoughts on “3 High-Necked Tops Refashioned”

BeingZhenya May 6, 2013 at 9:26 pm

Very cute! I am not a huge fan of turtlenecks, so I would’ve done the same thing!
Xo
Zhenya
http://beingzhenya.com

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jamahistory May 6, 2013 at 9:56 pm

Thanks! They felt like they were strangling me all the time. Vastly improved now 🙂

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Kowareta May 8, 2013 at 9:03 am

Looks great 😀
Just letting you know that I’ve nominated you for a versatile blogger award.
You can see the nomination post here: http://kowareta.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/ooooo-i-gots-a-shiney/
And information about the award here: http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/vba-rules/
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jamahistory May 8, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Aw, thanks for nominating me for the versatile blogger award! It’s nice to know someone out there is reading my blog! I’ll do my post in the next couple of days…..now I just need to think of some interesting things about me….hmmmm…..

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vjstracener May 16, 2013 at 7:43 pm

I’ve been refashioning a lot of my collars lately. I just can’t stand thing on my neck anymore,

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jamahistory May 17, 2013 at 12:19 pm

I felt exactly the same about these tops. Plus changing the collar is a really easy way to turn something you don’t like into something you could wear!
Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂

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