A skirt that frames your stomach like a round picture frame, a bodice that looks like it is going to come apart at the side seams any moment, a shirt button stand that gapes showing everything that is inside, outside, pants that develop embarrassing diagonal wrinkles from the crotch to waist or worse, that refuse … Read more
When you buy dress pants, it may be unfinished at the hem and not your preferred length. If the shop has an in-house tailor who will hem the pants for you according to your height, well and good. If not, or if you bought online, you are on your own. You have to shorten the … Read more
As someone passionate about embroidery, I would never want to remove embroidery from clothes. But there are instances where you have to. When the embroidery is in an inappropriate place on your fabric for sewing – say, on a seam line where you do not want that unnecessary thickness. Or when you have good clothing … Read more
How to fix a new button on jeans when the original button falls off your jeans- this is a dilemma many of us who live in jeans face many times over in our lives. Sometimes the jean button pops off like the cork off a champagne bottle, under strain; others do a quiet disappearance in … Read more
What with all the talk of fast fashion, throwing away old things for the sake of mental peace and nirvana, the convenience of not stepping out or even taking out your wallet for buying things, and the dreaded FOMO (fear of missing out) we are all buying new clothes like they are going out of … Read more
Taking in a shirt or dress and altering it to a smaller size is an exhilarating job in my opinion – that means you are smaller than you thought you were when you bought it. But that does not make the work you have to do any less cumbersome. Here are some very commonplace solutions … Read more