Mending and Alterations Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair

This manual provides all the necessary knowledge for anyone who wants to acquire the basic skills for mending, altering and fixing clothes. Anna de Leo explains in easy to understand and simple language the most common clothing repairs, like shortening pants, a seam to be redone, darning a hole, shortening the sleeves of a shirt, etc. From learning to do stitches by hand to using the sewing machine, the author guides the reader throughout the process by simple texts and useful photographs proving that mending is easy. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms. With this DIY guide, the reader will be able to alter and mend without the need for a professional tailor. It's a basic manual, but also contains more complicated fixes that people with more advanced skills can tackle.

Anna De Leo was born in Cosenza in 1987. In 2014 she graduated at the Euromode School Italia. In 2015 she moved to Udine, where she attended a course of tailoring repair at the Institute of Economic and Social Research Friuli Venezia Giulia. She later enrolled in the Fashion Design course at Milan Fashion Campus, and an online Personal Shopper and Image consultant course. From 2015 to 2017 she worked in different fashion companies, refining knowledge and skills that allow her to experiment also with the packaging of the clothes and the study of new modeling techniques.