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wouldn’t be out of place among the
scavengers of Jakku. Upcycling is
great when the existing clothing is
too small (for instance, when there’s
a cool design on a child’s size shirt
but an adult wants to wear it), or
the original material is a little worn
or strained but can be salvaged for
a new purpose.
Taylor Phillips has found a niche
in turning T-shirts into hoodies and
dresses. “I have a daughter who
is seven and a son who is fi ve. As
I started shopping for outfi ts for
my daughter, I noticed there was
nothing for my son. I knew of a
local friend who would take vintage
T-shirts and upcycle them into
dresses for little girls and I thought,
‘I bet it wouldn’t be too diffi cult to
do the same for boys’ hoodies.’ So
I took my mother-in-law’s sewing
machine and started working on
them. Finding shirts and remaking
them into something new is always
an exciting thing.”
Remember those classic 1970s
and 1980s Star Wars bedsheets?
Those are perfect for upcycling.
“I’ve been wearing true vintage
or a retro aesthetic since I was a
teen,” shares Janine K. Spendlove.
02 Modern technology allows you to create
“I eventually started sewing retro
a design and have it transformed into a
style clothes for myself as, given custom-printed fabric that can be used
my height, it’s hard to fi nd true on a variety of garments.
vintage clothing that fi ts me—I
wanted vintage looks, but geeky
prints, so I turned some vintage Star Wars sheets into skirts and just think it, she makes it happen.
dresses, and I love to wear these all “I started to make my own fangirl
the time in my everyday life.” shirts a long time ago, when no Star
Wars fashion for women was readily
Putting The Fab available,” she says. “I use a cutting
Into Fabrics plotter to cut the design as a stencil
How many times do you think of to use with fabric dye, or to cut foil
something Star Wars related, and that is pressed on the fabric by heat.
realize that would be cool to see I like minimalist, clear designs, kind
on a shirt? Nina Dreyer doesn’t of understated.”
To make a foil design for a shirt
or other article of clothing, she fi rst
creates her design on a computer,
“Fandom fashion is one way to have
then prints it to carrier foil. She
fun with fabric without the stress that removes the excess foil from the

comes with trying to make a screen- carrier and places the design on the
accurate costume.” fabric before putting both into a hot
press. Once the design is transferred
Johanna Nybelius / Falun, Sweden / costumekullan.blogspot.com
(Pictured with Jeremy Bulloch, the galaxy’s best-dressed bounty hunter.) to the material, the carrier foil is

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