Sewing Bizs Finding Niche In Midst Of Recession
Instead of a seam ripper, Bonnie McLeod uses a razor blade to rip out the outer seam from her old red jeans. She plans to add a strip of material down the leg to jazz them up into an original.
McLeod, a seamstress by trade, trims, cuts and tucks old clothes into a better fit at the Rip Club Sewing Center, which she opened last month in Loveland.
“I call it Rip Club, because you just rip it,” McLeod said. “In times of economic hardship, people don’t want to buy new clothes. It’s cheaper to repair what they have.”
McLeod and others in the sewing business are finding that altering and restoring old clothes is a profitable business in the recession.
Photo by Loveland Reporter-Herald.
Jaclyn on July 5th, 2009 1:39 pm
That is so very true. While i am not poor or hurting for money to the point where i couldn’t buy a new pair of jeans if i wanted to, I’d rather fix the ones i have and already love and have worn in rather than buy a new pair.
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