Five Easy Summer Style Hacks

Tina, here.

Let's hear it for five easy summer style hacks brought to you from the inner Martha Stewart that typically lays dormant in me.

Here are my Five Easy Summer Style Hacks:

1. Large scarf-turned-sarong.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Sarong

Start with a large, oblong scarf and wrap it around your waist. I picked up mine from Scarlett Begonia in Nashville (but I found a fabulous one you can purchase in the June Style Vault, Style Notes section).

Five Summer Style Hacks: Sarong

Next, tie the top 2 corners in a knot, right at your belly.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Sarong

Finally, twist the whole sarong slightly to one side so you get that flattering diagonal shape on your waistline. It's a good thing.

It's kind of hard to find the right shape scarf that is large enough to create a sarong out of, so I found one for you. It comes in such pretty colors with the cutest fringe hem, and it's under $45. You can find it in the Style Notes section of the June Vault  Members login here. Interested in becoming a member so you can shop all our fab finds? Click here. 

2. Scalloped T-shirt.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Scalloped T-shirt

Can't part with the old, soft and comfy, yet ugly, t-shirts we told you to never wear again? Grab a pair of fabric scissors and a compact.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Scalloped T-shirt

Use a pen to trace scallops on the edge of the hem, all the way around your t-shirt.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Scalloped T-shirt

Once you have your template, start cutting. Don't forget to cut a v-neck if it started out as a crewneck t-shirt.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Scalloped T-shirt

And voila, you have a cute scalloped edge t-shirt! It's a good thing.

3. Bedazzle a winter hat with a beaded headband.

Five Summer Style Hacks: From Boring to Beaded Hatbands

Grab any of your winter hats with or without a hatband, and measure how wide a band you want.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Beaded Hatbands

Have you seen all those cute beaded headbands teens wear daisy-chain style on their foreheads? Well, get you some and we're going to re-purpose them. For a grown-up, authentic Navajo theme, I hunted down some great headbands you can use for this project. Find the link in the Style Notes section of the June Style Vault. For members only.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Beaded Hatbands

Are you ready for this? Hunker down and place the beaded headband over the existing hatband. I used 2 because I needed to cover a wider hatband, and I just like the layered, mis-matched look. And you're done. Project complete.

Five Summer Style Hacks: Beaded Hatbands

And here's possibly the simplest craft project you've ever done: a beaded hatband. It's a good thing.

 4. Repurpose that lone earring into a necklace.

Five Easy Summer Style Hacks: Lone Earring Becomes a Necklace

Never found the mate to your favorite pair of earrings? In the meantime until it turns up, here's how you can still enjoy the remaining earring. That's what I'm doing with my lone horn teardrop earring. Whoever finds the mate can do the same!

Five Easy Summer Style Hacks: Lone Earring Becomes a Necklace

Start by grabbing some cord. You can use leather, suede, even household twine.

Five Easy Summer Style Hacks: Lone Earring Becomes a Necklace

I had some suede cord leftover from another project and I liked the color with my horn earring. There was already a hole for the earring hook, so I removed the hook, and ran the cord through the hole, and tied a knot to give it a finished look. Then my friend Emily (of Waters Edge Jewelry, who many of you met in May and bought her gorgeous pearl and druzy on cord necklaces featured in the Style Vault) made it adjustable for me with some fancy knot tying around my neck. Tying it off in a knot and bow works just as well.

Five Easy Summer Style Hacks: Lone Earring Becomes a Necklace

Voila. Earring becomes a necklace. It's a good thing.

5. Frayed-hem jeans.

Five Easy Summer Style Hacks: Frayed Hem Jeans

Do you have a pair of jeans you've washed one too many times that is now just too short to wear with your fave heels or boots? Or you're just drooling over the frayed hem jean trend I told you would be huge this spring and summer? Make your own, dolls.

Five Easy Summer Style Hacks: Frayed Hem Jeans

Grab a seam ripper, some fabric scissors. and literally cut off the finished hem across the bottom to your desired length.  Two things: (1) leave the hem a bit longer than where you want it to end up because you're going to fray it in the next step, and (2) the hem doesn't have to be perfectly even, in fact it's better if it's not.

Five Easy Summer Style Hacks

After cutting off the finished hem, use the seam ripper to pull a few fibers from the raw bottom. Or rub the hem together between your fingers to jumpstart the fraying process. Then leave it alone if you like a more crisp, clean frayed look (it will continue to fray over time) or run them in the dryer for about 15-20 minutes to get this messier frayed look I have. Frayed hem jeans? It's a good thing.

Thanks for reading. By the way, we’re doing all kinds of summer shopping and packing right now for our clients. Book us while there's still space on our calendars. We're your Nashville Wardrobe Consultants. Not in Nashville? Want to know what all the fuss is about the Style Vault? Click here to discover how you can shop and save on our all our best finds. Or click below to join so you won’t miss out on all the fun. 

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All the best,

Tina

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