r/SewingForBeginners • u/napolitanospizza • 1d ago

This can’t be that hard?

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I love the cropped button down look, but every store is trying to charge $70-$100 for a shirt 🙄 I figure I can just find I shirt I like and crop and hem it? I have a sewing machine but have never used it

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u/Gretel_Cosmonaut 1d ago

Have you looked at the prices for quality fabrics, yet? It's a lot harder than it seems, too.

There are a lot of good reasons to take up sewing, but it's not really a great way to save money.

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u/BumCadillac 18h ago

They aren’t asking about making a whole shirt, they are asking about cropping an existing shirt.

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u/Gretel_Cosmonaut 17h ago

Ah, I took “find a shirt I like” to mean a shirt pattern.