Repair, Redesign & Recycle

1. Repair, Redesign & Recycle Ms. Haushalter Fashion 2

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. Redesigning Clothes • Redesigning – to change a garment in it’s function or purpose. • Restyling – giving a garment a new and different look.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Think Before You Toss • Repair it? • Redesign it? • Recycle it?