Fashion Revolution Week: Tip 4 - Decorate it

Customising can take many different forms; embroidery, stitching, using trimming, adding buttons and beads, even the odd rip or two. 

Bring the personality back into clothes to make them last a little longer. 

These mix of samples show some of the many techniques that can be applied to clothes to give them a little lift; buttons as 'spots'; decorative bias binding; different embroidery stitches; hand-stitched handwriting, fabric pen drawings and words, rough appliques remnants with topstitching; over stitching to highlight fabric designs, hand-drawn graphics, beads and decorative rips.