Repair, Redesign

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Repair, Redesign Recycle

• Ms. Haushalter
• Fashion 2

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Why would we do this?

• Expand your wardrobes by repairing, redesigning,
  and recycling garments.
• Alter garments to improve their fit.
• Restyle and update garments to better fit your
  wardrobe needs.

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Repairing Clothes

• Patching - is the technique of sewing a small
  piece of fabric over a hole in a garment.
• Fixing closures buttons, zippers
• Pulled seams
• Altering length

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Average Cost for Mending Alterations

• Shorten trousers--7.00/pair adults 4.00/pair
  children's
• Let down hem/lengthen garment--trousers priced
  same as above. Narrow skirt 8.00, full skirt
  3.00 per foot of hem.
• Shorten sleeves--15.00/shirt with cuffs button
  plackets. 5.00/shirt without cuffs.
• Replace buttons 1.00 per button. If buttons are
  lost entirely, the cost of new buttons should be
  added.
• Tear in seamline--1.00/inch.
• Darning starts at 3.00 per hole for small holes,
  hourly rates of 12.00 per hour for particularly
  large or numerous holes.
• Beginners can charge 10-15 per hour/ Experienced
  35-40

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Redesigning Clothes

• Redesigning to change a garment in its
  function or purpose.
• Restyling giving a garment a new and different
  look.

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Appliqués, Embroidery, Dyeing

• Appliqués - is taking a small piece of fabric cut
  into any shape and attaching it to a garment for
  a decorative touch.
• Fusible Fabric sheer adhesive fabric that joins
  two other fabrics together when ironed.
• Embroidery decorative hand or machine stitching
  that creates a pattern.
• Tie-dyeing - one of the earliest known methods of
  decorating fabric.

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Recycling Clothes

• Recycling- to reuse in some manner
• Patchwork- small piece of fabric cut into pieces
  then sewn together by hand or machine to form a
  pattern

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Think Before You Toss

• Repair it?
• Redesign it?
• Recycle it?