jacket makeover

I had been eyeing some military jackets at Forever 21 for awhile now but then I saw this idea to make your own! I realized I had this old jacket my mom gave me about 5 years ago that I was never crazy about. And I had some trim in my sewing drawer that would be perfect. I forgot to take before pictures because I'm not a very good blogger but I remembered an old campout in college where the jacket had been worn by my wonderful best friend Erin (we were roommates all through college and frequently borrowed each other's clothes). To my delight, there were lovely pictures of both her and the jacket on Facebook. They absolutely needed to be shared here:

How accommodating of her to model the jacket so that three and a half years later, I could show you the before:

Oh I love her. And to be fair, here's one of both of us looking ridiculous (and this time I'm wearing the jacket):

So now you know what the jacket looked like before I took my glue gun to it. Here is the after:

I just cut up some braided trim and glued it to the collar, shoulders, and sleeves. And now I could fit into any marching band I please!