It’s no secret we’re all facing hard times, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all still look good, with a make do and mend attitude, and a little help along the way.
Classes in alteration from Fashion Antidote and online tips and projects from Cloth magazine are the perfect helping hand to restyling your own wardrobe. Our alteration and customising class is a great way to save money and prolong the life of your clothing, giving you all the basic skills to alter or repair your own clothes. Learn how to take up or let down hems, to lengthen or shorten a garment, how let out or take in seams to fit, and how to replace broken zips in skirts, trousers or jeans. You could also use this class to remake and restyle a favourite garment or vintage piece, and take away the skills to revamp your whole wardrobe.
Cloth is a smart and shiny magazine and website, offering inspiring, practical and easy-to-follow advice on dress making and sewing for any aspiring do-it-yourself-er. With online projects and sewing tips, and a dedicated magazine with events, products and things to do and make, there’s everything you need to get better at altering or reinventing your own clothes.
And don’t forget you’ll be helping the environment to, as what’s greener that saying no to fast fashion and hand embellishing or changing a garment? As Cloth magazine say, “We want to go back to the resourcefulness of our mothers’ and grandmothers’ generation where people would sew a button back on rather than throw something away.” Check out our alterations classes here, and cloth magazine online here.
