Maybe you all know this, but if you shop at Kohl's during set times and you spend $50 or more you get $10 Kohl's cash to redeem later. Maybe you think this is a scam. Maybe you've been at the checkout and your total came to $46 and you were tempted to run back for one more thing. Well, this summer I discovered that if you come back with your $46 receipt later and buy $4 they will give you the Kohl's cash. I discovered this when I did this and the next day decided that while my girls were in camp, I would buy them each a shirt from the slut juniors section. I picked what I thought was an innocuous enough shirt--a v-neck that says Hogwarts. Bought two and skedaddled.
So imagine my horror when I discovered V-neck in juniors section means cleavage bearing. How low was it?
That's one daughter wearing it with a shirt underneath.
But at this point there is no returning them (not the least of which was the Kohl's cash) because both girls are in LOVE with the idea of owning a Harry Potter Hogwarts shirt! And really the shirts fit every where else. So I got a little creative.
First I took the shirts to the fabric store and found, to my delight, t-shirt fabric in the exact same yellow!
Is that a match or what?!
I bought half a yard, but really I only needed a quarter. I then hemmed one end and sewed it across the v-neck.
We won't mention that I had that color of thread. I did though--isn't THAT crazy.
Then I basically sewed all along the edges were the original stitching was--along the pin line here: 
I wish I had an after picture, because it turned out great. Both girls love these shirts, neither looks provocative, and my mother in law actually asked me what the problem was with the shirts--she hadn't realized I had FIXED them.
I do have to add though that I am majorly disappointed with the juniors section at Kohl's. My girls are 10, they are tall for their age and are aging out of children's clothes really fast. The juniors section is full of short shorts and these v-necks and camis. We actually had better luck for shirts in the petite section--although many of those are kind of matronly. There has to be in my mind a middle ground, otherwise I'm not sure I'll ever shop enough to get Kohl's cash again.
P.S. Spent my KC on a new vacuum that I think I love more than I should.
1 comment:
Wow, that's a perfect match for the yellow in the shirt!
I think the ridiculously low-cut v-necks must be in style or something. The couple I've bought in the past year or so are too low & I have to wear a camisole under them. I lucked out and found these awesomely comfy microfiber camisoles at Costco recently though (in a style that doesn't look like underwear where it shows under the shirt) and scooped up two 2-packs of them for $20.
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