Clothing Modification Quotes

A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

I think I get almost every piece of clothing that I buy altered and taken in just to fit me exactly the way it should.

I'll even cut things. Or, I'll guesstimate it, and I'll have my assistant get it hemmed for me because I don't have time.

It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

I like to customize my tights by cutting them myself to create a stirrup or convert the look into a capri.

I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.

You've got to take the hems down, especially past 50. I don't care how good your legs are.

I have clients from 19 to 80 years old, and the way I work means that they can take the same dress and shorten, lengthen it, remove the sleeve, adjust details - and make it their own. They get a piece that is right for them. It's a clever way of shopping in this economy.

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.