In light of curent times and the need to be more thrifty and enviro freindly Tanya Greenwood has started a label in Australia under the name Handcut which harks back to the 1930s and ’40s, when women made do by renovating their clothes from whatever they had to hand.
You can get frocks made from pinstriped jackets and floral bed linen, jackets from vintage corduroy and the panelled denim skirts are sewn from at least three pairs of jeans. These mixed-up designer clothes are known as “refashioned originals” – which is a polite way of saying they are made from landfill.
Greenwood is whimsical about the history on her clothing racks. “I like to wonder what sort of bloke wore this before,” she says, holding a jacket with shimmering sleeves. “He must have been so cool with his gold jacket on.”
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i love fashion .. and i love how you put life back into old clothes.
i also make new cloth-designs out of my old clothes and my mothers cloths.
im 15 years old ,i love fashion since i was little and i have an ambishion to work in the fashion industry.
i was wondering if you could give me some tips on how to start and where to begin. beacause i believe that i can get far with the talent i have, i just need edvise from the best.
hope you reply back. thanks..
NA..