{"id":2102,"date":"2015-04-07T02:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:05:37","slug":"tailoring-making-a-button-down-shirt-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/tailoring-making-a-button-down-shirt-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailoring: Making A Button-Down Shirt Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PhotoGrid_1427980744460-e1428357626753.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2101\" alt=\"PhotoGrid_1427980744460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PhotoGrid_1427980744460-e1428357626753.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PhotoGrid_1427980744460-e1428357626753.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PhotoGrid_1427980744460-e1428357626753-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PhotoGrid_1427980744460-e1428357626753-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ever have a shirt you love that&#8217;s too small? Here&#8217;s a way to make it fit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find a knit shirt like a t-shirt or Henley shirt in a coordinating color with the same sleeve length.<\/li>\n<li>Open the side seams and inside sleeve seams of the shirt<\/li>\n<li>Cut a strip out of each side of the knit shirt. Be sure to keep the side seams. Center the side\/sleeve seams in the middle of the strips you cut.<\/li>\n<li>Insert the strips of the knit shirt into the side and sleeve seams of the &#8220;too small&#8221; shirt and sew them in place.<\/li>\n<li>Voila! A shirt that fits with a little stretch and give so you can move and be comfortable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s an example of a George Roth shirt I modified. I&#8217;m not a fan of a shirt collar, I removed the collar, cut a scoop neckline and used the extra fabric to make a ruffle for the new neckline. \u00a0I did this with the help of a tailor, but the project could be easily done as a DIY.<\/p>\n<p>Want more ideas?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a\u00a0redo of a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/how-to-make-a-t-shirt-bigger\/\"> t-shirt<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/sarahshah\/t-shirt-diy-redos-and-other-ideas-for-personalizin\/\">pinterest board<\/a>\u00a0of LOTS of fashion re-do ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a shirt you love that&#8217;s too small? Just add a side panel from another shirt and voila, a perfect fitting custom shirt. Here are the how to&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,348,1192,223,60],"tags":[962,956,954,963,959,971,957,966,970,972,968,973,965,68,10,958,969,967,955,7,230,961,960,974,964,791,792,712,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}