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08-23-2006, 06:42 PM
|  | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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| | | Band shirts How do you think these look best on girls? I want to get a Pixies shirt off the internet, but I'm not sure whether to get:
a) a girl's one, which comes in one size only (how inconvenient, but it'd almost certainly fit me as I'm an 8-10)
b) a small boy's size so it's a loose fit
c) customise a boy's size shirt (like a giant shirt cut up and turned into a t shirt dress to wear over jeans, or...I don't know, ribbons up the side.)
edit: I doubt that I'd be able to manage the customising, but I'd have a go on one of my dad's old shirts before doing it to a nice new Pixies t!
Last edited by sssh : 08-23-2006 at 06:45 PM.
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08-23-2006, 07:19 PM
| ![[kathy]'s Avatar](http://kittyradio.com/soapbox/avatars/kathy.gif?dateline=1144965725) | to inhale a beard. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: near liverpool, UK
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| | | I would say it depends on your shape and what you generally wear. For example, if your a bit indie or a bit boyish then you might want to get a men's small with some skinny fit jeans...If you have curves to define on the other hand, you might want to try a girls skinny fit. And I think customizing with ribbons is perhaps for very girly girls? | 
08-23-2006, 07:38 PM
|  | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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| | | Yeah, the ribbons thing was just a random suggestion; I mean where you cut holes up the sides and tie the ribbon through, but I think it'd probably look a bit silly on me. I'm not really an uber-girly girl. I have this idea that a big shirt would look sort of cool as a dress, but I don't know how I'd go about doing that. I might have that as tomorrow's project. | 
08-23-2006, 07:43 PM
|  | tree swallows houses | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: pollen lane
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| | those one fit size shirts are rediculasly small. i got a fantomas one and i am a size 8 but it was more like a size 6
however i have a small boys metallica one (dont ask) and it fits alrightish bit baggy but still quite fitted and a good length
ive also customised a large mens sonic youth one which i just cut abit from the edges and sewed to make it more "fitted" which only took around 2 hours hand sewn and was not hard at all to do (would take about 10-20 mins on a sewing machine haha)
__________________ no no never say maybe to smack bunny baby again. | 
08-23-2006, 07:44 PM
| ![[kathy]'s Avatar](http://kittyradio.com/soapbox/avatars/kathy.gif?dateline=1144965725) | to inhale a beard. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: near liverpool, UK
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| | That sounds good....just make sure the image on the front/ back of the t-shirt doesn't stretch out horizontally too much because I suppose you'd really need to take it in at the sides that way. A friend of mine once bought a meat is murder t-shirt, only after she'd altered it, it ended up saying "eat is murder".  | 
08-23-2006, 08:01 PM
|  | *Tea stained* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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| | I want a Pixies shirt!  I'd go with the girls one. Even if it was too small the right shape would be there and maybe you could get alterations to let it out if need be. I certainly perfer the fitted babydoll ones. Boys loose fitting band shirts are bad anyway, they always make you look bigger. | 
08-23-2006, 08:26 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: edinburgh
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| | | I have a small boys fit Pixies t-shirt and its HUGE and I'm a size 8-10 UK size | 
08-23-2006, 08:33 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | yeah you can go on www.ohmystars.net
they have lots of stuff about customizing tshirts
i made a super big tshirt from my ex into a cool tanktop dress
much love
brandi  | 
08-23-2006, 09:57 PM
|  | internationally ignored | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: america
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| | don't you dare ruin a pixies shirt by adding ribbons!
buy a guys shirt. | 
08-23-2006, 10:57 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: canada
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| | | make your own
buy a tshirt the way you like it to fit, get iron on transfer paper and print off whatever you want
they actually look really good
i'm all ghetto
i've made a tshirt or two in my day like that | 
08-23-2006, 11:07 PM
|  | carefully careless mess | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | You can try customizing one but practice on a cheaper shirt first (like those $2 shirts at the grocery store) to figure out how you want it. Otherwise, get a girl's shirt, IME "one size fits all" tends to run big. Sometimes places like Urban Outfitters will have band shirts in different sizes and cuter styles, too. | 
08-23-2006, 11:31 PM
|  | Princess Bitch | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Jersey
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| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by awful_cherry You can try customizing one but practice on a cheaper shirt first (like those $2 shirts at the grocery store) to figure out how you want it. Otherwise, get a girl's shirt, IME "one size fits all" tends to run big. Sometimes places like Urban Outfitters will have band shirts in different sizes and cuter styles, too. | Took the words right out of my mouth.
Customized band tee's always look the best.
Make it one shouldered. Crop off the neck and sleeves.
You can do anything to those and it'll look great. | 
08-23-2006, 11:50 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | If you have a boy's one and it's not the right size people might think you're just borrowing your boyfriend's shirt. Which you might not want them to think. | 
08-24-2006, 07:37 AM
|  | it's not too beautiful | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: syd.
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| | | too many times i have bought huge band tees thinking 'i will make it look cool as a tshirt dress' or something similar. it NEVER works. if you are smallish i would recommend just getting a slimfit girls' tee and wearing it as is. i really don't like the look of the "customised" shirts, esp not one shoulder or whatever was suggested above. | 
08-24-2006, 07:38 AM
|  | Nob | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England
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| | | I like skinny fit tees.
Customizing never turns out like you'd hope. | 
08-24-2006, 07:43 AM
|  | Only this & nothing more | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Scotland
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| | | skinny fit t's are always the best for me | 
08-24-2006, 09:18 AM
| | God Damn The Sun | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: oh?
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| | I mostly like to bust out my vintage tees. Like my Iggy shirt, which is rad. I like to wear it to the bar , so I can make his mouth move while the music is on...I get a lot of tips like that. I usually duet with a customer.  | 
08-24-2006, 12:03 PM
|  | laughingandgaylikeaclown? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the big top
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| | | one size fits shirts do tend to be size 8-10 with stretch so they stretch to busty 12s
just no fat arms alloud! | 
08-24-2006, 12:10 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: UK
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| | I'm currrrrvy and so the 'skinny-fit' ones aren't good: they're never long enough and I don't like a shirt being that tight
I hated the idea of wearing a big, baggy one that'd make me look like a sack of spuds. The nice man suggested I try a normal, non-skinny t-shirt but in a size 'small'. It's brilliant: it's fitted, but not skintight, and I'm not forever having to fiddle and pull it down at the bottom. I just took the sleeves up a centimetre or two and it looks great, if I do say so myself
Wish I'd known earlier! | 
08-24-2006, 03:27 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago/NYC
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| | | Girls wearing large boys' t-shirts looks gross... I used to wear shirts like that in high school until I realized that I don't want to wear baggy, unfeminine clothes. Then I started customizing my shirts. It is a risk, because if you don't know what you're doing you could ruin it. So practice first.... or maybe you could even bring it to a tailor or something? | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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