Summer Outfits: No Money, but Need Clothes?

Fashionistas!
  Broke, but still want summer style?  Easy!  There are a few tricks from changing your old, fall clothes into new summer ones!  Check it out!

Shorts: Find a pair of old jeans that still fit, but are too hot to wear.  Grab a pair of scissors, a Sharpie, and markers and/or paint.  What you are going to do is make your jeans into denim cutoff shorts.  Mark with your Sharpie a small line on the side of each pant leg on your jeans where you want to slice.  (I would start off with a capri sized cut, because you can always cut more, but not add on what you've already cut off.)  Then take your scissors and make a nice clean cut.  Try your new shorts on before you make another cut because they might look shorter than you think.  Once you have the length that you want, you can keep like that, normal denim jeans...or....mark them up with marker!  Find cute tracers to trace or a design you want to copy onto your jeans.  You can also find a nice paint color, generously paint your hand with that color, and stick your hand on your jeans.  Make sure you are on a surface that can get messy!  Have fun! :)

Tops:  Tops are always the harder ones to alter to be new, but there is a couple of things you can do.  One is to cut off the sleeves.  If you have a long-sleeved shirt, carefully cut off the sleeves (measuring it with a Sharpie, like with the shorts) and make it into a 3/4 sleeved shirt, 1/2 sleeved, or even a tank top.  Another thing you can do is bead it.  Take a hot glue gun and some crystal beads from your crafts box and make a cute pattern directly on the shirt for a new look!  I would hot glue on an ironing board, the shirt separated by the board so the glue doesn't seep through to the other side.  Good luck! :)

Shoes:  Converse looking old?  Flats getting scuffed?  To get a newer look, but keep the same shoes, try these tips.  For shoes with laces, spice it up with different colored laces, neon is bold, but can look innovative.  You can usually find laces at places like Hot Topic, Payless, or Claires.
For shoes that are getting scuffed, try a polish or if they're black, fill in the scuffed part with a black Sharpie.  It works!  Also to prevent weird rain lines and water damage of your suede boots, you can get a spray that will protect your boots.  The one I have is called Rain and Stain Guard.   I got mine at Payless.

And lastly, if your parents haven't already bugged you about this, working really makes it all so much easier and more fun! :)

Please give me your questions in the comments!
XOXO,
             Maddie