Camo & Leather

November 07, 2013

I made a few alterations to the military issue BDU, Battle dress uniform. I scored this from the Army Navy Surplus store in Tulsa on my trip home a few months back. It is military issued, and I was super excited when they gentleman at the store offered to sew on an army patch to the chest! Representing for my son! Army Mom, Army Strong! Now I am by no means fit to be in the army, they don't have a custom department, so the alterations were mandatory in my book! I bought a men's medium long jacket. I wanted it to be longer and I needed the medium to fit around my chest. But the arms were long and full. Yuck. So, I did what any seamstress would do, and cut them off, and hemmed the jacket. I know I said I wanted it long, but it was about 1.5 inches too long! Loving my vest! My son said he would fray the arms, but I like the clean cut look. What do you think?

Styling my new vest was a snap. Camo is so popular and I wanted to mix my prints and of course leather, vegan that is, leggings! I picked up these leggings at Target! Another great buy, and I have several striped tops so it was just a matter of which one! My leopard belt was my new addition from Nordstrom Rack, and to help pop the white stripe on my top, I stacked my Cathryn Ann tassel bracelet and Alexandra Beth bangles!

You know I will be making another trip to the surplus store! Maybe even try and score me another jacket and make a few alterations to sliming the sleeves!