I can’t remember if it was last spring or the spring before that, but somewhere I saw an off white boilersuit and regret never clicking purchase. Ever since that particular moment, I’ve had a fashion fixation on an off white boilersuit. This is my DIY on the said boilersuit.
This particular jumpsuit isn’t even a boilersuit exactly. Being a researcher, I looked up the definition of a boilersuit: a garment covering the entire body serving as protection from hard labor. For example, in the UK in 1928, a boilersuit was worn by the men maintaining the fire of the boiler. In the US this type of clothing item is called a coverall. When there are straps keeping the garment up, it’s called overalls. Finally, if the garment is tight-fitting it’s called a jumpsuit. I’m not sure what mine exactly falls under, so I’ll just go with my DIY boilersuit.
Let me explain why this is a DIY boilersuit. When I have a fashion fixation, it stays with me, so when I saw this khaki garment on super sale at HM, I bought it. I thought to myself, “I can bleach this item and finally have that off white boilersuit that I can’t get out of my mind!” So, I bought it, and I bleached it, and bleached it, and bleached it again. I bleached this item so much! It never did get off white; rather it’s a light peachy color. My family was so sick of the smell of bleach and seeing me hang this out the window to get the sun. One day I even soaked it in bleach and brought it to the rocks with me to lay it out to dry. Let me say I tried! (And with so much bleach, one of the buttons has already ripped off from quickened deterioration!)
But hey! I finally got my off white boilersuit–kind of…
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