Lots of times women get fed up with wearing the same old things but maybe because of the economic crisis they really don’t feel that it is the time or wise to splash out on any new clothes. But there is a way of feeling that they have something new by looking through their wardrobes and pulling out all the items that they never seem to wear any more, because one thing for sure is that when you don’t wear something any more it’s because you don’t like it or feel that it doesn’t suit you.
And most women often have an old jacket somewhere at the back of their wardrobes that they don’t wear any more. It could be a plain black one, or navy, or brown, the point is that it can be given a new lease of life and be turned into a jacket that you might want to wear after all.
First rip off all its plain old buttons which it probably has on the front of the jacket and look to replace them with some silver ones that maybe have some engraving on them. If the sleeves of the jacket had no buttons on the cuffs well sew three buttons going upwards from the cuff for about 6 inches.
Buy some boucle trimming (which looks like wool all scrunched up) in the same colour as the jacket and sew it all along the hem and then up to the lapel on both sides and then all along the hems of the sleeves.
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