Dorothee
Germany
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Environmentalists and human rights activists have been complaining for years that our excessive production of clothes pollutes the water in countries like India and Bangladesh, making it undrinkable. In Germany it is common to throw a shirt away if it’s got a hole – even just a very small one. You simply buy another one. Thanks to Corona however many clothes shops now are locked in Germany. Thus according to ‘Domradio’ we now have a new trend around. If your shirt has a hole, just cover it. Please note that the following tips aren’t just meant to cover holes in shirts. You may also use them to cover parts you don’t like about this shirt or parts that got dirty and you just can’t get the dirt off. Plus these tricks may also work on clothes other than shirts: >If you’ve got two shirts of different colors that are damaged, you could just take textile scissors and cut out little figures – stars, hearts, butterflies, circles etc. – out of one of these two shirts. Then you sew on the fabric onto the other damaged shirt to cover the damaged parts. >If you’ve got two shirts that are damaged and one has ornaments like pearls, rhinestones, artificial flowers etc., just cut them lose from this shirt and sew them onto the other shirt so they may cover the damaged parts. >If you just aren’t talented enough to do either of these yourself, you may also ask a seamstress. The semstresses I know don’t ask for much for work like this. >You could simply take a needle and a thread and sew the hole up or ask a semstress for help. As mentioned before this may not be too expensive.
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