I'm more of a tank top person than a t-shirt person. Therefore, whenever I somehow acquire a t-shirt that I hate, instead of throwing it out or giving it away, I just turn it into a tank top. This happened a lot in college with tailgating shirts and stuff like that. My friend, Allie, saw a shirt on Fab.com that said, "Fuck It Lets Drink," and she told me I needed to purchase it. Naturally, I did. When it arrived (literally three weeks later eek), I tried it on and thought it was odd fitting, so I finally found the time to turn it into a tank top. If you follow these steps, you'll be able to do this to any shirt as well :)
STEP ONE:
Lay out the shirt (really should be on a hard surface, but I was too lazy to get off the couch)
STEP TWO:
Find a thicker-strapped tank top to lay on top of your t-shirt. I have a ton that I have previously cut, so that's what I used, but any normal tank top will work.
STEP THREE:
Take a marker or pen and outline the sleeves of the tank top on to the t-shirt. Use your discretion to determine how long you want the side openings to be. Obviously, the farther down the side of the t-shirt you draw the line, the longer the hole will be (which you may or may not like)
STEP FOUR:
Do the same thing on the other side, and then remove the tank top from the top of the t-shirt.
STEP FIVE:
Take a scissors and cut along the lines you drew.
STEP SIX:
Your lines will probably be a little jagged, but you can always go back and clean them up.
STEP SEVEN:
Cut the other side as well (unless you want a half tank top and t-shirt). Normally, the next thing I would do after cutting the sleeves off would be to slightly cut around the neckline (you can see I did that on the blue Cubs shirt above). However, this shirt is really thin, and since the neck wasn't thick, I didn't think I would need to mess with it.
STEP EIGHT:
Waaalaaaaa...now I have a tank top that I will actually wear :)
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