Make Your Own Racerback Workout Shirt

I saw a post and video on how to make your own racerback shirt on Blogilates and decided to give it a try since I was already planning on cutting off the sleeves of a few shirts specifically for Camp Gladiator. Those long heavy sleeves are constricting and I'd like some air flow through my shirt considering it's 100+ outside now!


Here's the Blogilates video:

I didn't do a spectacular job of documenting this - I was too involved in what I was doing so if you want to take a stab at this, you should totally watch the Blogilates video for direction!


I probably didn't cut off enough here, because the straps are still pretty chunky. 

Make sure your sides match

Ta da! Yeah, these could stand to lose another 2 inches at least. Random fact, I get so many t-shirts for free since I'm in advertising. We are swimming with station swag. I don't remember where Mega 95.5 - "all the hits" came from. Maybe Austin? The other shirt I cut the sleeves off was 97.9 The Beat!

So then you cut off the bottom of the shirt, like this:

Then cut that piece in two:

Then before wrapping the string part around the shirt you need to a) pull on it to stretch it out and b) cut a V in the back of the shirt.


Then you can start wrapping the string around the back so it ends up looking like this:

Cut the neck a little deeper, circular, V-neck, whatever you want. And ta da! You made your own racerback shirt!

I think I just really wanted to cut up a shirt =)