How to alter a huge shirt into a form-fitting women's medium?

Question

I'm a bit of a nerd chick, so most of the designs on shirts that I love (Transformers, Batman, Mario, etc.) don't come in women's sizes. For this current project, I'm trying to make a XXXL shirt into a medium fitted shirt for me.

Like this: http://extremecostumes.com/hb992fj.jpg

The problem is that, when a shirt's that big, the shoulder seam is about where my (short) sleeves would end. When I just cut at the shoulder seam and alter the sides to be smaller, I get this webbed look between my b***s and the sleeve. So is there a way to make a form-fitting shirt that has fitted sleeves out of a shirt that much bigger than me?

Answer 1

Cut the sides of it and than tie them together. Lots of kids do this and it looks really cool. Plus it will make your shirt more form fitting and you can retie anything that doesnt fit right.

Answer 2

What you would have to do is cut a new pattern within the large t-shirt. You would be cutting it up and sewing it back together smaller.

Answer 3

i'm not sure, but if you have a hot topic near you they sell shirts like that (Transformers, Batman, Mario, etc.) in sizes from x-small to like x-large (maybe more, not sure)

hope that helped!

Answer 4

You could rip out the seams in the sides and where the sleeves attach. Use pattern that fits.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/feb/...

http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/re...

http://community.livejournal.com/t_shirt...

http://xml.latimes.com/features/printedi...

http://www.surfthedrift.com/how-to/how-t...

or do what they did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUTd3cjLk...

http://www.nancysnotions.com/product/cod...

http://www.christianguitar.org/forums/ar...

How to make t shirt into pants:

http://community.livejournal.com/t_shirt...

http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/ov...