Sewing, crocheting and patchworking, examples of the applied arts, exist to maintain the wearability of clothing. Once ...

Spain’s Inditex, which operates the Zara clothing outlets, launched a mending service for its products in Britain in November 2022. Meanwhile, an outdoor brand whose products are usually used in ...

Mending is an undervalued art. The ability to rework garments and give pieces of clothing a new lease of life is an essential one, although nowadays we are not encouraged to think of it as so.

Knowing how to alter your own clothes to achieve that ... From cropping a top to tapering your pants to patching a hole, “mending and altering” can mean a lot of different things.