Updating the wardrobe before each season is a crucial event for any modern woman. Only now buying new things does not always work. As a rule, all this requires certain financial capabilities. Especially “buying a penny” buying winter things. You can find an alternative and alter the coat with your own hands. Moreover, she probably hangs in the closet for quite some time.
Preparatory work
Firstly, in order to alter an old fur coat with your own hands, you must initially determine its future style. Secondly, it is necessary to check the fur for damage. After all, a mole could eat it. Such areas will have to be cut or replaced with new fur.
To alter the fur coat with your own hands, patterns can be made independently, based on your size and the parameters of the finished coat. And you can copy them from any printed fashion publication.
First you need to evaluate the footage of normal fur, so that it is enough for your favorite model.
How to choose a model?
Modern women are able to immediately decide on the choice of style to alter a fur coat with their own hands. This takes into account:
- desired length;
- parameters of an old fur coat;
- woman's size.
Tall representatives of the fair half with standard sizes can wear any fur coats. But for women with a non-standard figure, elongated models are recommended.
Many overweight women love fur ponchos. If they are made of smooth fur, then they can be worn. And if they are too fluffy, then it is better to abandon such models.
What can be used in remaking a fur coat?
Before you alter a fur coat with your own hands, you need to add some zest to the model. Quite often, the style is supplemented by:
- genuine leather;
- suede;
- other fur;
- leatherette.
All this is taken into account in the development of the model.
What can be done with an old fur coat?
There are several options for updating such clothes:
- shorten;
- lengthen;
- take off;
- completely change the style.
Using these methods to alter your coat with your own hands is quite simple. It all depends on the fur and its quality, since in some cases it is necessary to work with natural material carefully.
Altering the mink coat
Where to start work to alter a mink coat with your own hands? Initially, you need to try it on. At this stage, what exactly does not suit the model is evaluated. As a rule, such fur coats have classic loose silhouettes. May not arrange:
- shoulder width;
- length of the product;
- its size.
As soon as a flaw is found, you can begin to strut the seams in the place that will be changed. It should be borne in mind that there is still a lining that can be sewn or free.
When planning a model of a mink coat, it is very important to consider that it should be free, since it is one of the types of outerwear.
Attention is also drawn to the fact that a mink coat consists of pieces of different sizes. If you start work incorrectly, then in the end the product will completely blossom.
If you want to suture the product, then excess pieces of fur are cut from the fur coat, and it must be sewn again. If large shoulders are retracted, then the work may take a little longer. So, initially the shoulder seams are opened, and if there is a high collar in the model, it is also steamed off. Sleeves, the back and front of the product are also subject to suturing.
Sew fur can only be special threads. In some cases, professionals also recommend gluing skins and seams. Quite often, doublerin tape is laid in the line for greater strength.
Altering the Mouton Coat
This fur is quite practical to wear. It is quite simple to alter a muton fur coat with your own hands. There is no need for gluing and laying in the seam of the dublerin tape. Fur keeps shape perfectly.
You will also need to initially determine what exactly does not suit the model. Basically, the catch will only be in the shoulders and in the model. She is usually flared. The product is necessarily lined.
So, you need to start modeling a new fur coat taking into account the chosen style. The product is completely expandable along the side seams and shoulders. Sleeves will be subject to "restoration" last.
Pre-made pattern on special paper. It must be built according to its size, which takes into account:
- shoulder width;
- chest height;
- breast volume
- Waist
- height.
It is worth considering that fur coats from any fur cannot be fitted. On such material it is impossible to make tucks. They can just ruin the style.
Especially if it is a muton that is lush and soft fur.
The process of creating a new mouton coat
Individual parts are laid out on a flat surface of the table or floor. On them using special needles, paper patterns are attached. They need to be circled with fine or simple soap.
An important point: you need to outline the pattern with a small margin. This will enable all parts to be sewn together normally. As a rule, 1-1.5 cm will be enough for this.
Next, with the help of sharp scissors, details are cut out. This must be done carefully, as fur of any kind can crumble. As a result, you can get a kind of "receding hairline."
As soon as all the parts are ready, they are swept away among themselves with a simple seam. Then the product is tried on, and its shortcomings are evaluated. Perhaps it is necessary somewhere to remove the excess or release a little fur.
After everything suits you in the model, you can start joining the parts on a sewing machine. For this, a special needle for processing fur is inserted into the equipment. She's pretty sharp. You need to sew in a zigzag so that on the outside of the product in the places of the seams do not form creases of pile.
Then the seams must be processed, as the fur will constantly crumble during socks. To do this, use a special overlock or set up a specific seam on the machine itself. Quite often, the seams are finished with a satin ribbon inside.
Next, go to the assembly of the lining. Patterns are also laid out on its individual details, circled and cut. Then they are swept away, and the product is tried on.
It should be noted that the lining of the fur coat should be 1-2 cm smaller in its parameters than the product itself.
Lining seams must also be treated with an overlock or made invisible.
When stitching the lining fabric, you need to pay attention to the fact that the wrong side of the fabric will be facing the back of the fur so that the product looks neat inside.
Once all the details, in order to alter the fur coat with your own hands, are ready, you can proceed to complete assembly of the product. The lining is sewn to the seams on the shoulders and collar. Then it is fixed at the end of the sleeves. As a rule, it does not need a lower fastening, since it should be a few centimeters shorter than the product so that it does not peek out from under the floor.
It is advisable not to touch the fasteners and other decorative ornaments in the process of altering the fur coat. It is unlikely that they will be able to fix them on their own. The product can only be spoiled by poor-quality work.
Similarly, you can alter the astrakhan fur coat with your own hands. Only working with such a fur is much easier. He is not magnificent and not so crumbling.