Ideas to Recycle Old Clothes into New Hot Trends

Introduction:

Are you tired of wearing the same outfits again and again...?? "OUT OF FASHION" is the phrase that fits perfect for most of the stuff of the wardrobe. After every 2-3 months’ clothes become out of fashion. In this case, buying new clothes and spending lots of money on new fashion is not a smart decision.

Recycling the clothes is one of the way to become trendy and save your money and it will help to reduce the textile waste. A lot of textile waste is creating different problems for human and environment. The best way to cope up with textiles waste is to reuse it or recycle.

In this draft, I will explain some ideas to save your money and become a participant to reduce textile waste.

Alter the Function of Cloth:

This can be done in various ways, such as adding an embellishment or alter the clothing into something different or to have a neater, more fashionable fit. There is a lot you can do with those piles of old clothes and moth-eaten (and too sentimental to throw away) clothes.

Cut the Dress:

Cut your long top to make it short, your long skirts to knee-length. Then stitch them from below. Combine fabrics for a patchwork garment. Make a miniskirt.

Cut off the top of a long T-shirt. Cut horizontally just below the sleeves. Turn the raw edge over twice to form a waistband. Insert elastic or use a ribbon as a drawstring. Turn your sweatshirt into a cardigan, or cut pants into shorts if they still fit at the waist.

Wall Hangings and Other Decorative Items:

For T-shirts with cute sayings, shirts or dresses with neat patterns, or particularly memorable and special outfits, cut out squares of fabric and turn them into a quilt that you can use in your child’s room as a throw blanket or a wall hanging.

Modify Your Dress Through Strips, Threads, Laces:

Neck ties, or any other accessories that we wear on neck like scarf, choker can be modified according to latest fashion trend. You can give a new look to your blouse or simple dress by satin strips, Boot lace, or any other fabric cuttings. For this you should know stitching.

Saree Fabric for Making Jackets, Scarf, Lehnga:

If you are bored of your old sarees, then you can use its fabric in many ways. You can recycle your saree according to the latest fashion trend. You can use your saree fabric in making scarf, dupatta, Kurtis, lehnga, skirt and even palazzo pants.

You can even make ethnic jackets through it. If you have a faded old saree, you can cut the faded part and make skirt from it. The part that has not faded can be used to make another skirt or can be used with other fabric to make a matching blouse for the saree skirt.

Making Strings and Linings:

You can make strings out of old fabrics to make bed. Cut the fabric to its full length and then twist the cut fabrics to make a rope.

Old fabric ropes could be used as linings in upholstery and for support of furniture products. Such as use of old fabrics ropes under sofa.

Practiced Examples:

A lot of people are working to reuse or recycle textiles waste. Here are some examples that are practiced now-a-days.

Quilted Fabrics for upholstery from old clothes

Ornaments from waste fabrics

Use of old clothes as Cooking uppers

 Recycling of old clothes into new clothes

Conclusion:

After all, above explanation, it is concluded that a lot of creative ideas are available to reuse and recycle textile waste fabrics. The requirement of time is to give attention to create new ideas to reuse and recycle textile wastes into new and reusable products.