Every woman wants to look stylish. But fashion trends change so fast that it's hard to keep up with them. For example, today short skirts are in fashion, and in six months their length may increase significantly.
What to do? Changing wardrobe again? Completely optional. There are quite a few options for how to lengthen a skirt without spending a lot of effort and money on it. Yes, and special sewing skills are not required for this. The elongated skirts, the photos of which are presented in this publication, are quite consistent with fashion trends and will not make a big hole in the family budget.
Ways to lengthen a skirt
There are several ways to lengthen a skirt. Photos of each option will help you visually understand what will happen in the end. Here are some common ways:
- lace trim;
- open seam along the hem;
- adding stripes of contrast fabric;
- setting a skirt on a coquette;
- execution of shuttlecocks;
- decorating a fringed skirt;
- complement with train;
- layering transparent fabrics;
- inserts in the middle of the product;
- belt extension;
- execution of an additional petticoat.
Each of them is quite interesting and has the right to life. Which method to use, each fashionista will decide for herself.
Hem treatment
If you do not know how to lengthen a skirt and are not very good at sewing, you can use the simplest option. It will make the product a couple of centimeters longer. You just need to rip the folded edge of the hem and carefully steam it. If there is enough material, you can again slightly tuck the edge and sew. The skirt will become 1-2 cm longer. When there is little fabric and even a small hem is not possible, you can trim the edge with braid. You can also sew an additional tape to the hem, which will allow you to hem.
An interesting way to finish the edge is fringe. Firstly, the bottom will look quite original, and secondly, such processing will add a few more centimeters to the product.
Don't know how to lengthen a denim skirt? Sew along the hem a beautiful frill of variegated colors. Polka dot, striped, floral or geometric prints look great. Making a shuttlecock is very easy. To do this, it is enough to cut off a strip of matter 2 times longerhem. One edge of the cut must be stitched, stepping back from the cut 0.5–1 cm, and then, pulling one of the threads, evenly collect, forming beautiful folds. The finished shuttlecock is sewn to the hem, and the cut is processed with an overlock or zigzag.
If you need a significant length, you can sew a mesh base to the hem of a short skirt. And already on it, place ready-made shuttlecocks in several rows.
Inserts
Here's another way to lengthen your skirt effortlessly. It is a bit similar to the previous one. In this case, an additional strip of matter is inserted into the middle of the product.
Cut off the hem of the skirt, retreating 5-10 cm from the hem. Take a strip of fabric of a different color and stitch it between the two received parts. Finish and iron the edges.
To make the skirt look more spectacular, the insert should be made a little narrower than the cut off part of the hem. If a significant increase in length is required, several additional inserts of different colors and widths can be made.
A mesh, guipure or other translucent fabric looks very nice as an insert. She will add grace and sexyness to your skirt.
Waist inserts
To lengthen the product in this way, you need to rip off the belt from the skirt. Darts, if any, must also be ripped open and carefully steamed. From a material suitable in color and texture, you can cut out a new belt, wider than the previous one, and assemble the product back.
A special elastic band 10–15 cm wide can also serve as a belt.buy at a fabric store. True, this option will only look good if the skirt is quite fluffy and made of light fabric.
The next method is suitable for those who can sew quite well and have at least a little understanding of patterns. So correct the length of a straight skirt or pencil style. Between the belt and the skirt, you can insert a strip of suitable width from the same material. Get something like a coquette. Only it will need to re-lay the darts. Decorate the junction with a beautiful ribbon or braid and decorate with a bow.
Attention! Do not use lace for this purpose. It will visually add a few centimeters to your hips.
If the skirt is sufficiently fluffy or has folds, it can also be put on a yoke. Moreover, depending on its width, you can get completely different styles.
Second layer
How to lengthen a skirt with your own hands without ripping an existing product at all? Recently, tulle skirts have come into fashion. We will use this.
Take a piece of tulle or thin guipure of the desired length and width 2 times the hem of the original skirt. Sew off the end pieces. You should end up with something like a "pipe" made of transparent fabric.
Now fold the "pipe" at one end and stitch it right onto the miniskirt at the waist. Ready. It remains only to process the edge of the tulle.
Working with leather
How to lengthen a leather skirt? After allthis is a rather delicate material, on which holes from a needle or ripped seams are very clearly visible. There are several options here.
Leather goes great with mesh, tight guipure or tight tulle. So that the holes from the ripped seam are not too visible, it is best to apply decorative stripes from above.
Carefully, trying not to damage the fabric, spread the hem. Apply a decorative element and carefully stitch, trying to get the needle into the existing holes. A decorative insert can also be made in the middle by cutting off the hem by a few centimeters.
The yoke option is not suitable for working with leather. Indeed, as a result, ugly holes from a needle can form in the most prominent places. It will be difficult to hide them. But the skirt will look very stylish if you decorate its hem with a long thick fringe. And the skin goes well with tight lace, put on the hem. By the way, in this case, the machine may not be needed at all. Lace is easy to glue with special glue.
This way to lengthen a leather skirt is for those who know how to crochet. Carefully unfold the hem at the hem, and then simply tie the skirt to the desired length, picking up a beautiful pattern. In exactly the same way, you can lengthen a short denim skirt. It will look very good.
Lace is always in fashion
Sometimes nothing else comes to mind, how to lengthen the skirt with lace. This is a very simple and effective way, because chic braided patterns never go out of style. Weaving can be chosenin tone or focus on contrast.
It's very easy to get the job done:
- ripping the hem and carefully steaming the edge;
- we process the cut using an overlock or a zigzag;
- we place the lace strip on the front side of the fabric so that 1.5–2.0 cm is on the product, and the rest hangs freely;
- attach the decor along the hem, steam it.
Lace can also be sewn under the bottom of the hem. In this case, you don’t even have to rip anything. The lace insert also looks nice.
Stylish train
And here is another rather interesting way to lengthen a denim skirt. The photo below will demonstrate the principle itself. The skirt can be absolutely anything, not just denim.
The essence of the method is that you do not have to touch the main product at all. You just need to take a light fabric in a tone or contrasting color and cut a beautiful train out of it. Slip it onto a stylish belt and then simply fasten it at the hips over the main skirt. In this way, you get a two-in-one option. At any moment you can unfasten the train and enjoy the trendy and modern mini again.
By the way, you can make several trains from materials of different colors and textures and change them depending on your mood.
As you can see, lengthening a skirt on your own is not so difficult. There are a lot of options, and only you can decide which one to choose.
