How to Make a Tuxedo Shirt
A tuxedo T-shirt is a replica of a tuxedo used to mock it in a playful fashion. Tuxedo T-shirts show an undershirt with a black jacket with a tie. However, this is made possible by screen printing and gives off a humorous impression of someone wearing a tuxedo, but with jeans or shorts on the bottom.
Things You'll Need
- Pins
- Scissors
- Black thread
- White thread
- Black T-shirt
- White T-shirt
- Tailor's chalk
- Sewing machine (optional)
Instructions
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Locate both your black and your white shirts. Put on the black shirt. Mark a point roughly midway between your chest and your belly button. Do not make the mark too low or you will run out of fabric.
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Take the black shirt off. Locate the midpoint of the collar and cut from the collar down towards the center of the shirt without going past your mark.
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Pinch both ends of the cut you have made, almost folding the shirt in half. Cut two triangles out of the shirt to make the lapels. Cut them both at the same time so that they are the same size.
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Put on both the black shirt and the white shirt with the white shirt being underneath. Draw a mark on the bottom of the lapel V so that the mark will appear on the white shirt. This will give you an idea of where to cut so you will not cut the white shirt too short.
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Cut the bottom of the white shirt off 1 inch underneath the mark you made. Put the bottom of the white shirt that has been cut off under one of the black lapels. Lapels should both be flat in the exact position that you plan on sewing them. Then cut the white fabric following the edging of the black lapel at about half an inch distance. If done correctly, you will have two white lapels underneath the black ones that stand out just a little further.
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Pin down the lapels with your pins. Sew these in place with zigzag stitching. Use the thread color that you prefer.
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Take the bottom of the white shirt and cut off the very bottom, including the hem. This should be about 1 inch above the hemline. Cut this circle into two pieces. These pieces will go under the black sleeves.
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Pin the white material under the black sleeves. White material should be showing out of the black sleeve. The white hem should line up with the black sleeve. When you sew these fabrics together, do not sew around the entire circle. Leave about 1 or 2 inches where the fabric ends come together. This will allow you to sew the seam into the under sleeve separately. Sew that open space when you are sewing the black.
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Cut off the collar of your white shirt. Take the leftover pieces you have of the bottom of the white shirt and fabricate two sides of a rough collar. The size of the collar will depend on how much fabric you have left. The white shirt will no longer be needed.
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Turn your white shirt leftovers inside out and pin the collar pieces, aligning them how you want them to appear. Clip the collar pieces to look like the shirt itself. Then sew a small seam along the collar.
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Flip the collar over and zigzag stitch down. Only sew the collar until you reach the shoulder seams.
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Put on the white shirt under the black shirt and pin it into place. Take the shirt off and sew it into place. This will keep everything from moving around.
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For the tie and the rose, you have two options: You can either screen print an image onto the shirt or create your own tie out of fabric and the rose will more than likely have to be applied by screen printing, but the rose is optional.
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Tips & Warnings
Screen printing the tie and the rose will be the easiest method of putting those on your tuxedo shirt. If you want bigger lapels on your tuxedo shirt, you should buy a larger shirt. There is always room to trim and hem the shirt later on in the process.
References
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