//// Chains & fringes

Posted on | August 10, 2009 | 5 Comments

The style blog brainwashing really works and I’ve developed some sort of need for body jewelry. So visited recently in H&M in hope for some super discounted chains from clearance sales to break apart and to use as material for a DIY harness piece. To be honest this is really dangerous for me — I have decided to steer clear from high street buys made in a whim. I’m saving for the winter booties and one special purchase. So I left that beautiful body-con cotton satin dress to H&M and left out with pile of silver chain and one pair of discounted tights. (A girl can never have too much legwear in this country.)

I don’t like the idea of a chain or a strap going in between my boobs, so I thought to build something that goes simply around the shoulders. But back to the pile of chains; a weird co-incidence is that it happened to be like this, with no alterations involved:

hmnecklace1

Perfect, actually somewhat exactly what I was about to make. First I thought that I will settle with it as it is… …but on the other hand there will be few thousand exactly similar items around so I decided to adjust it just a little bit.

I added some black fringes to the shoulders, simple but quite effective. Perhaps adding some to the back, too. My chest does not need any extra wiggle…

hmnecklace2

Discussion

May
August 10th, 2009 @ 4:41 pm

Military + s&m combined!
Ashley G
August 10th, 2009 @ 5:01 pm

This is gorgeous, I would love to buy one (espeically with the fringe) if you are ever in the mood to sell…
Kamicha
August 10th, 2009 @ 6:49 pm

May: yeah, kind of! H&M exceeded my expectations with this piece.

Ashley G: thanks, I will keep you in mind if I decide to abandon this. That fringe thingy is very easy to sew on the edge of chain, if you have just above zero skill level in sewing you can add fringe to any chain jewelry!
More body jewelry : The door in my wardrobe
August 12th, 2009 @ 4:38 pm

[…] Here’s another non-bust dividing harness jewelry option: Maeve from Girl Tuesday Jewelry — if you are not into that H&M option. […]
sugar kane
August 13th, 2009 @ 12:58 am

Yet another addition to my ever-growing list of DIYs “inspired” by you!

What do you think?

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