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Lorna Prichard looks at the growing trend for up-cycling clothes and second-hand shopping.

Lorna Prichard looks at the growing trend for up-cycling clothes and second-hand shopping. Is this something we can all do or is it just for trendy millennials?

Lorna Prichard is a fan of thrifty shopping and second-hand bargains and has a bulging wardrobe to prove it. 

By buying second hand, she's part of the so-called 'slow-fashion' movement. Social media is full of influencers showing off their charity bag finds, mended dungarees and vintage blouses.

How effective an antidote to fast fashion is the growing trend for up-cycling clothes and charity shopping? Is slow fashion something we can all do or is it just for trendy millennials? 

Join Lorna as she she turns her hand to making a dress out of old jumpers in Cardigan. The workshop is run by Carys Hedd, who set up her refashioning clothing company, Wench, 5 years ago. Carys has a passion for up-cycling which  comes from growing up in the Rhondda where jumble sales provided Saturday entertainment. Guided by her mum and with the help of her grandmother's old sewing machine, she'd make whacky new clothes from floral house coats, bedspreads and curtains!  Today, she concentrates on giving unwanted and discarded clothing a new lease of life at her sewing machine.  

Come and eavesdrop as Lorna gets a virtual visit from a sustainable stylist'. Claire Rees was a fashion magazine editor and personal stylist. She no longer helps people find new outfits, but will do a wardrobe edit for them or scout charity shops and local sustainable brands to buy clothes for clients. Will Lorna's wardrobe breathe a sigh of relief after Claire's intervention?

To what degree are we completing a full circle and returning to a 'make do and mend' mentality and buying quality garments that will last? Was fast fashion a blip? How realistic is it to shop secondhand, when clothes are so cheap in supermarkets?

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