Top Tips : Old Sarees To New Fashion Clothes
Saree is still the elegant dressing costume of Kerala women,and in many houses women have a separate wardrobe for keeping her saree collections.When Kerala is badly attacked by flood , generous home makers contributed their old saree collections to relief camps and other needy people.
By mistake or not, women purchase new sarees for every new family functions and parties to meet the current fashion trends but forget about the old sarees waiting for their chance on wardrobes. Today we will discuss about creative way to transform old sarees to new fashion clothing with simply good designing skills.
Top 10 ways an old saree can be stitched to new cloth products.
1.Kaftan Style Kurta:Old chiffon or georgette sarees can be reworked to make an elegant Kaftan style Kurta for teens.
2.Stitch Dupattas With Old Sarees: Grand pattu or zari dupatta with a simple raw silk or jute Anarkali suit looks splendid.If a good looking one can be made from old saree how much money we can save,also dupattas can be tried with many colour combinations also.
3.Kurta With Palazzo Pants: Any material that won’t tear up easily can be transformed into this contemporary palazzo pants designs. Make sure to use a suitable lining material for the Palazzo.
4.Capes, Over Coats and Jackets: Capes, overcoats or half jackets, are easy method to blend your traditional old sarees even with your contemporary outfits like jeans, leggings or even shorts. An Indie-fusion with old sarees looks something innovative.
5.Old Saree Into A Shirt: you can still use an old saree to make a shirt or a short kurta to wear it above your jeans/shorts. Experiment yourself with new looks and styles.
6.Salwar Suit Made From Old Sarees:You could use the body of the saree for the top, use contrast patchwork borders for the hemline, neckline and sleeves. For the bottom and dupatta, you could either use another old saree or mix and match it with what you have.Thus old sarees make some good looking salwar suits.

7.Salwar Kameez: A simple salwar kameez is a most obvious choice, and one of the easiest old saree hacks to bring in old charm to your wardrobe. And, it works like magic on any old pattu or silk sarees.
8.Turn Your Old Sarees Into Skirts: Skirts matching T shirts or any plain tops can be stitched out from old sarees with great works or magical designs.
9.Kids Wears:Kids casual wears and house dresses demand not much expensive purchases.If you are creative and know how to tailor the clothes,easily convert old sarees to new kids wears.
10.Summer Maxi Dresses or Night Dresses
Maxi Dresses or Night Dress is a casual wear for women, When you have a large collection of old sarees,it’s very easy to convert such sarees to summer Maxi wears or Night Dresses.

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Apart from fashion clothes other home decors can also be tailored out from old sarees like Pillow or Cushion Cover,Door Mats,Curtains and wall decors. Door mats, placemats or even table runners are all fun ways of reusing old sarees and making something entirely new.
Buying new things and new styles is part of luxury life and a trend driven by shopkeepers to improve their market. When flood hit many houses,people don’t have an extra cloth to spare for many days, they spend at some shelter homes.Those where a lesson to the new generation to reduce the habit of spending extra without looking at the society where many live even without that old dresses which we are not using.
I am not sure in Kerala,we have any tailoring shops who re work on old clothes than altering the new dress to fit the size. The above mentioned re designing and stitch works are either done by any house makers or NGOs promoting these activities.Saree is a such a lengthy piece of cloth which we can make it useful for many purposes.

Let’s have some change on our spending habits and re-cycle the existing cloths with our skills and commitment to society. You may buy new sarees in Kochi or from Kolkata ,but after sometime it will become less visited item on wardrobe. So redesign them to some other products,use yourself or make it useful for some others who really need. I am happy to hear, reading this at least one person or an organization came forward to implement these suggestions.