{"id":113383,"date":"2020-01-03T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fix-up-look-sharp-how-to-mend-more-and-buy-less\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T10:12:50","slug":"fix-up-look-sharp-how-to-mend-more-and-buy-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fix-up-look-sharp-how-to-mend-more-and-buy-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix up, look sharp: how to mend more and buy less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt is surprisingly easy and satisfying to repair everyday textiles. Here\u2019s howAn industrious weaver called Krysta Relyea recently wrote a post on Instagram saying she had just realised she owned enough pairs of jeans to get her through the rest of her life, provided she maintains her weight. \u201cOf course, patches and new zippers will be a must,\u201d she said. \u201cSome just need a little altering.\u201dSearch the terms with which she tagged that nugget \u2013 including #buynothingnew, #visiblemending and #makedoandmend \u2013 and a world of possibility opens up. Whereas visibly repaired clothes might once have been considered a sign of not being able to afford new ones, the mending movement celebrates the ingenuity our forebears deployed to make old things last. If your new year aim is to buck the national trend by not buying a suitcase-worth of new clothes \u2013 not to mention the new items to the value of \u00a39,000 that the average household wastes or doesn\u2019t use every year \u2013 mending skills may come in handy. Here are a few to get you started. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/jan\/03\/how-to-mend-more-and-buy-less\" target=\"_blank\">Fix up, look sharp: how to mend more and buy less<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; It is surprisingly easy and satisfying to repair everyday textiles. Here\u2019s howAn industrious weaver called&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-tuL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}