Sentence examples for clothes altered from inspiring English sources

Indeed, shortly after she arrived in Florence, a protruding growth forced her to have clothes altered.

I'm not allowed to buy new clothes, but I can make clothes, alter clothes and buy secondhand ones.

O'Keeffe was an expert seamstress who made her own clothes and altered or otherwise preserved them herself; she kept some of her dresses for as long as sixty years.

Make three piles: clothes that fit, clothes that can be altered, and clothes that do not fit.

Thomas Edison didn't wash, and was convinced that changing his clothes would alter his body's chemistry, and not in a good way.

Such appointments would reinforce a widely held view among political analysts that the elections amount to a charade in which Myanmar's top generals simply exchange army fatigues for civilian clothes without altering the nation's power structure.

You'd go to thrift shops and find old clothes and alter them.

But ill-fitting clothes can be altered and recut to fit perfectly for a fraction of the cost of buying a new suit.

Take the second pile to a reputable tailor to find out if the clothes can be altered.

The Love Your Clothes website has advice on choosing clothing designed to last longer, buying second-hand clothes, using energy-efficient laundry methods that keep your clothes looking good, repairing and altering clothes, as well as donating, swapping or selling unwanted items.

He dyed his hair "every possible color" and wore clothes his sister, Laura Kidd, altered for him.