 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hem. Today we are going on a little errand together. You guys are always asking me about my refashions and how I do it and how I come up with the concepts and all of that. So I was headed to Goodwill today and I thought that I would take you guys along with me where I can show you some types of garments that I would pick out for refashion and show you why I would choose them and then also explain kind of what I would make from them. So that should be a lot of fun. I have got my new little favorite thing in tow today. This is a tea that I have been drinking. It's part of like a 30 day tea detox. So every morning I drink this one that they call Skinny and it's completely replaced my coffee. I was drinking coffee first thing in the morning and then again at like two or three in the afternoon and now I have this one cup of tea in the morning and I don't need any more coffee. So that's been great. You know the winter time was really such a drag. It always is every year. I kind of touched on it a little bit in a video last week but just feeling like roll I don't know blah. My complexions all messed up. Low energy levels. Mood was like not great. Feeling pretty bloated and like my gut wasn't very healthy. So to get things back on track I was like let me try this 30 day plan. So then doing the skinny teas in the morning and those have been great. I really really love them but it's actually a two part system. So at night every other night I take this one that they call colon and let's just say it gets things moving in another way. I've done there's definitely a laxative quality to the colon tea. I've done various kinds of laxatives in the past with the digestive issues that I've had and some of them can be I mean they can be terrible like with heavy cramping and very very painful and all of that. This isn't like that. I mean it definitely does what it's supposed to do and there definitely is some cramping but it's not like terrible. It's definitely bearable and once you do what it's designed to do then it all goes away. You can go about your day. It's not like after every time you eat after that you feel gross and disgusting. It kind of does its thing and then it's out of your system and it's gone. So that's been really really nice. So like I said this is a 30 day tea talks. I'm about one weekend. You can tell I have tons of energy which has been really really great and I can see little differences like in my complexion. You know that stuff doesn't clear up overnight but just like the brightness behind my skin is starting to come back. I feel a lot less bloated like I said feeling like lighter. You know does that make sense? It is the daylight savings started so lots more daylight and you know all of that has been really really wonderful. So I feel like the tea talks was good timing with that. But they also have this cool little tumbler and the tumbler like this bottom part comes off and so you can store like vitamins in there or if you didn't want to steep your tea right away you could put your tea leaves in there and then in the top which I can't show you because it's full but in the top it has like a filter. So although all these tea leaves are loose when you drink it the little filter prevents them from going into your mouth which is really great. But I love this little tumbler. I know that I'm going to use it for past this tea talks. It's really great just to have and be able to take tea on the go especially if you're trying to like not rely so heavily on coffee. So yeah I really love this guy. It comes in a ton of different colors too. So yeah it's it's been really great and makes it very easy to do like a daily tea whether you're going to school or work or taking the kids to school or hanging out with the grandkids or whatever you just throw it together and run out the door and you are ready to go. I also wanted to let you guys know that Timi has sent me a coupon code for all of you guys to get 25% off your order with them that includes any of their tea talks. They have others that are not the skinny in the colon. I think they have like a boost one. Oh I can't remember them all but they have others that you might be interested in. So definitely go check out their website link in the description box below and the code is ith25. So if you want to go get yourself some teas or a tumbler or anything like that then use the code and you can get 25% off. But yeah okay so now we're headed to Goodwill and see what goodies we find. Alright so we have arrived. My very first stop every single time I go to Goodwill is the dress section mostly because that's where you can find the most fabric the garments that have the most to work with. So first up is this dress I found. I picked it out mostly because A I love the color and the color would look really good on my skin tone. B the fabric felt nice. It wasn't uncomfortable or scratchy. C it had this really great lace up detail that I can incorporate into my garment. Sleeves mean extra fabric so that's always nice. So I can imagine this garment being made into one of those like shirt dresses where the waist is elasticized and there's a little drawstring there. So it'll have that lace up detail on the bodice probably sleeveless and then cinched in at the waist for some definitions. Next up is this hot blue number. Truth be told though I did end up putting it back because the fabric just didn't feel great to me. It was 100% polyester which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it was just bad polyester if you know what I'm saying. But I did pull it out to inspect it because the color was right and the shape meaning shapeless and large and oversized was also right but in the end it wasn't going to work for a refashion. Okay next I found this super cute denim dress I think maybe tunic not 100% sure but I pulled it out because denim and chambray always are a good thing but it was made by Eileen Fisher and I just know from experience that Eileen Fisher uses really really great quality fabrics and so I knew that if I made this into something else it would have a long life beyond the long life that it's already had but it's not super long so I don't have a lot of link to work with so it'll probably be made into a boxy top. All right here's something that's interesting this isn't large or oversized or have a ton of fabric but what it does have working for it is this really super cool trim and Goodwill can be a great place to find trims at a great price. The dresses here are six dollars so I get all this yardage of trim to put on the hem of maybe that chambray dress I just showed you for really cheap. Okay so here's a really interesting example I found this large shapeless oversized dress I actually kind of really dig the print and I was also intrigued by the buttons that it would come with as well but as I inspected it further I realized it had large or four fisheye darts all along the bodice so I inspected the inside of the garment and what I found was some of those fisheye darts had been surged meaning if I were to take that surging out there would be a big gigantic hole running the length of the dress so the lesson here is you're going to have to get in there and inspect these garments front back inside and out to make sure that you are going to be able to work with what you're given. Okay so here's another dress that I found this is a strapless dress that quite honestly isn't very long but the skirt is cut into a circle skirt meaning there are just a ton of fabric there even though it's not that long so finding something like this adoring the cotton fabric and the little polka dots I knew that I could turn this into a circle skirt basically dropping off the bodice and adding a waistband super simple refashion. Next up I found another oversized shapeless dress and I just fell in love with the fabric but mostly this embroidered hem that they have on the dress I don't know if this was done in post-production of the dress or if that's how the fabric came but I just thought it was really really cute for a dress like this I really want to show off the hem so I would probably raise the hem up making the garment knee length and then do something really anything you can do a shift you can do a sheath you can do fit and flare it's just polyester it doesn't have a lot of stretch though so you got to keep that in mind. All right this is the last dress that I found and this goes kind of back to the embellishment this is a basic knit t-shirt dress and please excuse this lady that didn't realize that I was filming but I loved it because this jewel neckline to me was so beautiful and when you see how it's attached it's just it's just barely um tacked on I realized I could easily take that off and apply it to really any neckline that I have so I'm not a thousand percent sure that I am going to keep this knit part of the dress it is rayon which is nice um but I don't know about like a t-shirt dress uh but I'm definitely going to keep the jewel neckline and apply it to something okay so after finishing up in the dress section I usually head over to the skirts it is a little bit more limiting because you really have to find a maxi skirt and the maxi skirt has to be pretty wide um so it's usually a slim pick-ins over here but I did find this black skirt I didn't end up getting it but I just wanted to show you an example of what you're kind of looking for um this one had multi layers and elasticized waistband might have even been handmade well I don't know um but it's long and large and then every once in a while you'll stumble upon something cool like this vintage Givenchy skirt um it's a very high-end French designer I didn't think the print was atrocious so um I think it could kind of be cool it does have like a button closure on the side with a like little side zip um so I might try and keep all of that intact and just make it fit me somehow it is a little bit long there's a lot of fabric there so if I wanted I could just reuse the fabric the um care label was gone though so I have no idea what substrate it is it feels like some kind of crepe I'm imagining silk given the designer okay after skirts I head over to blazers again you're not going to really refashion these into anything major or different um they do have just have some cute ones over there if you want to add them to your wardrobe but I like going to the jacket section because you can find super cool buttons like check out these buttons here that have like these little I don't know faces on them I just thought they were neat and they would be cute applied to something more modern and there are a ton of them on this coat well well well quite the hall at the old Goodwill found a lot of really good stuff and hopefully you guys learned a ton too and will help to your Goodwill's and save some garments from the landfills or wherever they go and make something beautiful I will see you all in my next video very soon I've got some selling to do