How to Reuse Your Mom’s Old Saree : 5 Ideas to Recycle Old Saree

5 Ideas to Reuse Your Mom’s Old Saree
5 Ideas to Reuse Your Mom’s Old Saree

 

Recycling old clothes is the best way to protect the environment and create a new looking outfit with minimal amount. We all have eye on our mother’s sari closet, common it’s a natural thing and one can’t be guilty about it. Reusing your mom’s old saree and converting it into nice ethnic dress is a great idea. Especially when your mom is done wearing a saree many a times but at the same time don’t feel like discarding it, you can recycle old saree and create many new kind of ethnic outfits. Here we have shared some amazing ideas to recycle old saree, let’s have a look:

1. Make a Lehenga from Old Saree Repurpose

If your mom have a nice Banarasi silk saree or a Kanjivaram which she have passed on to you. And you are not a saree girl then you can convert saree into lehenga and give it a whole new makeover. Either you can make a complete lehenga, choli, or dupatta or you can also create some indo western kind of look by only recreating a nice lehenga skirt and pairing it up with white shirt and oxidized jewellery pieces.

Lehenga From Old Saree
Lehenga From Old Saree      Credit: Instagram
Lehenga Made From Old Saree
Lehenga Made From Old Saree                Credit: Instagram

2. Long Ethnic Jacket from Old Saree Reuse

All mom’s have beautiful full embroidered sarees in their closet, their daughters can recycle those sarees in nice full flared long ethnic jacket. Check out the image to get a better clarity of the style. These types of jackets are multipurpose; you can wear them with your lehengas as cover up or with your palazzos or shararas or even with your sarees as well.

Long Ethnic Jacket from Old Saree Reuse
Long Ethnic Jacket from Old Saree Reuse                                      Credit: Instagram

3. Convert Saree into Sharara Suit

Sharara suits are well in demand these days. If you love to flaunt your ethnic side then you can thing of reusing old saree and converting it into a stylish sharara suit. Check out the reference image of Madhuri Dixit to get a better idea about the look.

Convert Saree into Sharara Suit
Convert Saree into Sharara Suit                                    Credit: Instagram

4. Reuse Old Saree and Make a Dress

It depends on your choice whether you want to convert a saree into a dress in flowy style or straight cut. But creating a dress with a saree is a cool choice that you can really consider for yourself.

Reuse Old Saree and Make a Dress
Reuse Old Saree and Make a Dress  Credit: Instagram

5. Convert Saree into Palazzo and Crop Top with a Shrug

How about converting an old traditional saree into a cool indo western outfit like a crop top and palazzo with a cover up shrug? Reusing old saree is not just about creating a new outfit with it, it’s also about carrying the emotions forward. There are so many emotions of a woman attached to a particular saree, it gives a sign of relief when a women see the saree passing on to the next generation and being reused.

Convert Saree into Palazzo and Crop Top with a Shrug
Convert Saree into Palazzo and Crop Top with a Shrug                                                              Credit: Instagram