The word 'refashion' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of making changes to an existing item of clothing, an idea, etc. in order to make it new and more attractive. For example: “I decided to refashion my old dress by adding some new trimmings and lace.”.
Your editorial (9 May) made some cogent points about how Labour must refashion its political strategy.
Not everyone in Chile needs to trick out their entrées to refashion the public's perception of Chilean cuisine.
Its founding fathers had the prestige to refashion the nation to confront military and economic threats.
During the 1990s, when the world was gripped by dotcom fever, he cleverly sought to refashion an old-economy business literally as grey as they come into something more alluring.
Germany, where professional-services industries are highly protected and unproductive, stands in the way.Fearful of inflating expectations at home, Mr Cameron has been careful not to say precisely how he would try to refashion Britain's relationship with the EU before calling a referendum.
The proposals that Barack Obama unveiled on June 17th would refashion the federal rules governing almost every corner of finance, pushing government much more deeply into private markets and partially rolling back 30 years of liberalisation.
The Scottish National Party will have failed to deliver the very thing that it exists to deliver; it will be forced to refashion itself as the boring, competent manager of a not very large devolved administration.
Moreover, transactions with central government tend to be more serious and involve a higher degree of confidentiality.Small bureaucracies are also a lot easier to refashion than large ones.
As a result, two of the countries that Germany, as a reforming president of the European Union, needs to woo if it is to refashion the EU's budget have been needlessly antagonised.
Global securityKofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said the report of a high-level panel on global threats and security, published on December 1st, represents a "unique opportunity to refashion and renew" the battered world body.
YouTube is trying to refashion itself into a direct competitor to television, launching its own "channels" with professionally produced shows.
