/ An acronym for "do it yourself"; an apropos modifier at a time when resourceful designers are festooning the runways with enough embroidery, frayed seams and patchwork appliqu to rival a suburban crafternoon, e.g., 'I know a hundred nuns went blind making this homespun top, but as Rachel Zoe would say, I die for D.I.Y.' Performative/ (pr f? tiv) /adj.
But while Mr. Bokaer's work is all about control and optimal efficiency, Mr. Riener, unafraid of fraying seams, shows a wilder side.
At the time, John D. Morris, an analyst for BMO Capital, conducted consumer research that showed shoppers were upset about "bright colors bleeding when washed, pilling and fraying seams problems".
In fact, I didn't watch it, but I did watch the subsequent furore unfold concerning the Prince's Barbour jacket: patched and mismatched, a messy mass of hanging threads and fraying seams torn apart and darned together until HRH declared he could barely move in it.
Frayed relationship seams are just as evident in the second couple, hot-headed alcoholic Bill Dean Chekvalaandand his passive-aggressive homebody wife ('Scandal's' Katie Lowes, alternating with her IAMA co-founder Amy Rosoff).
For a fashion parallel, think of the fake fragility of Alber Elbaz's fraying seams at Lanvin.
If part of the fabric has frayed beyond the seam allowance (the extra fabric that sits inside of the seam) then you will need to stitch further into the garment to ensure you are sewing on stable fabric, otherwise it will just come apart.
Then there were the gently frayed hems, the reversed seams, the reinventing of vintage finds from leather butchers' aprons to antique wedding dresses — the turning of clothes literally upside down and inside out.
Again, if the fabric is frayed less than 5mm beyond the seam allowance, pin the frayed fabric over the seam line then start stitching further back, gradually sewing over the stable fabric before joining the original seam line.
