Make your dresses fit perfectly with this no-sew hack
A savvy fashion influencer has shared a simple trick to making your dresses fit your figure - and it doesn’t require a trip to the seamstress or a sewing machine.
Influencer Carolina Freixa took to TikTok to share her no-sew hack that changes her silk dress from shapeless to form-fitting.
“How to make your dress fit perfectly,” she captioned the 10-second video that uses just four steps.
First, Carolina turns her dress inside out and puts it on backwards, with the label at the top of her dress sitting just below her collar bone.
Image: @carolinafreixa (TikTok)
Next, she pins the seams on both sides of her waist with a safety pin, before threading a piece of white string through each pin.
The third step is to tie the two strings together in the middle.
Image: @carolinafreixa (TikTok)
Finally, Carolina flips the dress the right way around so it can be worn correctly - with the dress now hugging her figure.
While Carolina’s clip received plenty of praise, some wondered how to get the dress to no longer be inside-out while keeping the pins in place.
“How do you get into the dress afterwards?” one person asked.
“I imagine you leave the pins in but put the string in once back on? Maybe,” another posed.
Meanwhile, many lauded Carolina for her “genius” hack.
“I needed to see this omg so good,” one commenter said.
“Bought a dress like this yesterday and was going to get it altered! Thank you!” another wrote.
A third person simply wrote: “Genius.”
Images: @carolinafreixa (TikTok / Instagram)