DIY Design: Adding Heavy Metal Accents To Your Clothing
Add Balmain-like embellishments to your favorite army jacket. Photo: Karl Prouse/Catwalking/Getty Images
- Metal Primer: You'll find all sorts of useful instructions online when it comes to heavy metal mania. Check out this free excerpt from Connie Long's Embellish Chic. Learn how to set grommets and eyelets and even use zipper teeth as a design element. Or try this quick tutorial on installing a grommet (it's for a tarp, but the same principles apply to clothing or handbags). There's a video version as well. Here's where to find grommet and eyelet kits.
- Studs and Spikes: In case you were wondering, this site pretty much wrote the book on metal gear. Go here fo a quick lesson on goth spikes.
- Lady-like Touches: Grommets don't always have to be tough. Here's a great tutorial on how to use grommets in a feminine fashion to create this adorable tank top. If you want to to really go over the top in girly toppers, this corset tutorial should do the trick.
- Heavy Metal Accessories: Take a gander at all of the great metal accents on this wholesale industrial site. From buckles and snaps to chains and eyelets, you'll find a feast of hefty hardware.
Tags: balmain, diy design, DiyDesign, embellishment, glam rock, GlamRock, grommets, metal gear, MetalGear, metallics, rock, spikes, studs






razzi, 4-16-2010, 8:00AM
I am just can not get over the clothes over these last few years. These outfits above that you are showing, the very short skirt, revaling top and those shoes. She looks like a street walker. Lord whats wrong with you fashion people? Isn't it enough that some women walk around today half naked as it is! You all just make it alittle easier to look like a tramp. UNREAL!!
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