Fun - thanks for posting this, April.

Taylor, if you don't mind, I am really curious about this. When you say you alter your skirts and pants, do you mean just the length? or something else? I caught the jacket button details on another thread--very interesting, it would never have occurred to me to just move the button a tiny bit, but I already have a candidate jacket in mind that could benefit...

Something else.:)
I bring all my skirts in from the waist on down. Even if they fit me , the waist is never right and if they are low on the hip they roam all over my waist and hip. I got this idea from one of Angie's posts a year or so ago. It has made a huge difference in the fit of my skirts..believe me it it amazing!!

My pants are almost always too full in the leg and if they flair slightly I balance them by bringing them in. I have always done this with my pants... since high school out of necessity really, nothing fit me. I have gotten very picky about the way my clothes fit me as I have noticed the smallest of tweeks sometimes make a huge difference in fit!!

I mentioned that I don't do my own heming because I am not that good at a perfect hem and I like the finish work a tailor does on this:) I rarely need something hemmed fortunately:)

I just want to mention that I am really not an accomplished seamstress like so many here are...basic sewing 101 here. For real advice others here are far more skilled, but I have altered my own clothes for so long out of necessity that I can look at something once it is on me and immediately start to pull in a more flattering shape.

I hope you are able to change some items you have by doing small little adjustments like these.

Very clever, Taylor :0)

Love this list! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for your response, Taylor, you have really got me thinking. I have a big problem with roaming skirts. I wonder if I took in the waist so that they sat a little higher, where they seem to want to be anyway, maybe that would help them settle down. Funny, the only thing I feel like I can do is a hem. I am very petite, so I have to hem almost everything. I definitely ruined some things in the beginning, but I can do a great blind stitch hem now and a reasonable machined one. Some skirts for various reasons, though, can't be hemmed due to the disruption it would cause to the finish or pattern, so your idea of taking in the waist so it sits higher might really solve the problem. Also I wonder if it might help me to shop a little cheaper, where the fit is maybe not so precise, but then I could alter it myself. I know I am getting ahead of myself, but I am inspired!

Also now I think your name is a little funny, Taylor