We spoke to Sara Spray on how to love your clothes for longer and gave some quick tips.
If You Want To Avoid Buying New Clothes, you'll need a sewing kit, some glue, and a bit of imagination ✂️
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'Cheap fast fashion is readily available at the touch of a button – so most of us are far more likely to buy a new item than to repair an old one. And anyway, would you even know how to mend that ripped jumper if you had to?
Recently, MPs on the environment audit committee called for kids to be taught basic sewing in school. More needs to be done to tackle our “wasteful relationship” with fashion, they said, suggesting a 1p tax for retailers to fund a scheme that would stop mountains of fabric ending up in landfill.
To get clued up on how to make our clothes last longer, we asked the experts for some easy repair hacks – here’s how you can breathe new life into your wardrobe without hitting the shops.'