I learned from my mother or my experience eg darning is almost always a waste of time because 1) a hole which appears from wear will happen again, 2) socks/stockings/tights usually need darning where the darned bit will rub and give you blisters.
#WELL DONE CLOTHING HOW TO#
My mother wondered why we didn’t learn how to cut down on time by choosing simple patterns, a friend’s mother why we weren’t taught how to buy meat instead of doing endless cakes ! Anything I learned about mending etc. As a grammar-type school we concentrated on academic stuff but had token sewing & cooking classes (because we were girls) which were utterly useless. Isn’t it a pity that mending, alterations & repairs are not taught in schools? They were not even in my day. Would I like to try out one of their services? You bet! The Clothes Doctor will see you now, I said to my poor biker…. I still hadn’t figured out what to do with it, when I received an email from the Clothes Doctor, a platform for mending, restoring and repairing clothes.
So the faded biker has spent the best part of the last seven years languishing at the back of my wardrobe. Particularly as it was a special gift for a significant birthday. Even though the colour had faded beyond recognition and I no longer wanted to wear my birthday jacket, I couldn’t part with such an expensive piece. Suffice to say, I wouldn’t recommend buying a more-shabby-than-chic leather jacket from Isabel Marant.Īnyhow.
Er, what, like it cost a tenner from Camden Market? I don’t think so. Obviously the dye wasn’t colour fast and so I took the jacket back to the shop, to be told by an assistant that it was supposed to look like that. I don’t mind leather getting beaten up and changing with age, that’s all part of the charm – I just wish I could go grey as quickly as the sleeves on this jacket (see below).
Unfortunately, after a few months the shine had well and truly come off my biker. My leather jacket looking like new again after a trip to the Clothes Doctorįor my 50th Birthday Mr TNMA bought me this lovely Isabel Marant Étoile leather jacket in a gorgeous midnight blue.
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