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Clothing Repairs (Steps Necessary in Clothing Repairs)

There are different types of clothing repairs. These include:

1. Lost or worn fastenings: e.g., buttons and button holes.

(a) Sew on any lost or loose buttons.

(b) Mend worn buttonholes by stitching over them with buttonhole stitches.

(c) Loose and missing fastenings as soon as possible.

clothing repairs - types of clothing repairs

2. Cut or loose elastic band: The elastic band within your underwear or any part of your garment can cut or become too loose. To mend:

(a) Unpick a few stitches of the casing for the elastic from the wrong side.

(b) Pull out the old elastic.

(c) Replace with new elastic pulling through the casing with a suitable safety pin.

(d) Over-sew the ends of the elastic firmly together.

(e) Neatly re-stitch the casing.

3. Loose or split seam and undone hems;

(a) Tack the seam or hem with a matching thread.

(b) Use running stitch or back stitch for split seam and hemming stitch for hems.

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