Change a Shirt collar into a Mandarin Collar with NO Sewing

Living in a hot climate, I love wearing light weight shirts and blouses, but I hate the collars on them. They always need to be ironed for one, and they can look and feel sloppy too.
I came up with this idea of cutting the collar off, which makes it look like a Mandarin style collar. It works great and looks great! My shirts feel lighter and cooler too!
It's so simple and quick, and requires no sewing. You can do this in minutes!
Some of these shirts have long shirt tales. I like to cut them off and hem at top of hip level and wear them not tucked in. They look great with a pair of Capri's and it makes a cool comfortable summer outfit.
I've also done collars on my long sleeved shirts too.

Step 1 The before picture

The shirt as it was originally.

Comments

[Candice157]

I'm so happy to have found this. I am so hot natured that I can never wear anything with a normal collar. I have some cute sleeveless, but collared, dresses that I love, but are miserable in, due to the collar. I'm going to try this on one of them. Thank you so much for posting.

If you have a way to remove SLEEVES, PLEASE let me know! Ive been trying to think of a way to do that and I'm guessing there is no way to do it without turning the sleeve into a facing. Thanks again!

[porcupinemamma]

I have a short neck, and collars look rediculous on me.  I do this too.  Nice instructable!

[cokecola]

How do you keep it from fraying after washing?

[K-Sue]

By making sure you cut right up to the seam line of where the collar was attached to the 'Mandarin" strip, there will be nothing to fray. The top of the Mandarin is already finished off, there isn't any cut on that part. You might not have cut close enough if you see anything that could fray so just check it and clean up any wisps that happen to poke out.