This post isn’t a tutorial teaching you how to mend clothes. For that, you’ll want to pop to another blog. This post is about mending clothes in a sustainable and creative way. You see, for me, mending clothes is about slow fashion. Sustainable fashion. Fashion that isn’t exploiting the planet and it’s finite resources, nor…
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Refashioned Trousers: Banana Pants
Keep ReadingIn January, along with packing up my life in London, I worked on a refashioned trouser project for the Sewcialists blog. Their theme for February was stripes, and as I needed another pair of my Banana Pants to test out, I opted to make them as a pair of refashioned trousers. Now, this is the…
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Dressing Consciously
Keep ReadingDressing Consciously Two weekends back, having decided I would be dressing consciously in 2017, I decided to have a sort out. My life felt cluttered since I had moved out of my work studio. The move meant I now had A LOT of fabric and sewing tools stashed randomly around our small flat, along with…
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How To Create Your Own Fashion With Sensational Success: Part 1
Keep ReadingYou’re bored with what you see in the shops around you and want to create your own fashion. Or even go on to study fashion at school. Yet, where d you start? Create your own Fashion: How do you get started? Fashion is an interesting thing. As an industry, there are between 60 and 75…