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“Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”
-Yves Saint Laurent
One of the most important people needed as part of your fashion team is an excellent alterations expert!
Job attributes for that person … someone with a special eye, superb sewing skills and the patience plus persistence to do the job correctly.
What an immense difference a little tweaking here and there can make in the way you look in your clothes!
If you are baffled by finding someone, definitely try Patty Elliott.
Formerly at A Sewing Place, Patty has opened her own lovely shop, Patty Elliott’s Place, Fine Tailoring and Alterations, at 2825 Wilderness Pl, Ste 600.
You can reach her by phone at 303.440.3325 or patty@PattyElliottsPlace.com.
An appointment at mutual convenience is definitely available.
Closet-cleaning season is in the air!
Have you been bitten by the bug yet? What to do with those items that altering won’t make useful?
Pass them on to a greater good! If you have business appropriate, current clothes, consider Dress for Success whose marvelous motto is Suits to Self-Sufficiency.
Yes, they want and need suits, but all the other items that make up a professional wardrobe are always needed as well.
Call 303.832.1889 for further information or www.dressforsuccess.org/denver.
If you live outside Colorado, there may be a Dress for Success located near you.
Find out through www.dressforsuccess.org.
Don’t give up if your discarded duds don’t meet Dress for Success standards and needs!
There are so many people in the world who would treasure and use what you have, that you must see that they find a new home.
Innumerable local charitable resale shops and their organizations, church charity cupboards and other such entities will be delighted with your donation, and you may even receive a tax donation receipt.
If you have items historically out-of-date, consider donating to theater companies, resale shops featuring vintage or selling on eBay
Since our heart-strings have certainly been strung by the recent escalation of people in need, buying a pair of TOMS Shoes is a mutually beneficial thing.
You buy a new pair of interesting, comfortable shoes, TOMS gives a new pair of shoes to a child in need throughout the world.
One for One is the program name. Since 2006, TOMS has given 140,000 shoes to children.
TOMS shoes can be found in many places, a couple locally include Nordstrom and Whole Foods.
Check it out at www.TOMSshoes.com. Try TOMS, they are noble, affordable and great!
And don’t forget outdated eyewear!
What is it about those of us who wear prescription glasses that we have a tendency to hoard what we once wore.
By turning in no longer useful eyewear, someone in the world will have an opportunity to see!
The Lions Club has long spearheaded making this happen all over the world. Aspen Eyewear will gladly accept your discards and see that they move on to a new life.
Check with your eye care professional practice to see if they can do the same for what you have but no longer need.
If they can’t help, bet they’ll direct you to someone who can. Check them out at www.AspenEyewear.com
Do you need to update your website or build a new one? Maybe you
need a website ... fashion or otherwise? Would you like someone
to maintain and update it? Nancy needed all of the above!
It would be difficult to find anyone easier nor more patient to work
with than Jason Brummett of Colorado Digital Arts Jason is immensely smart, creative and
cost-conscious on behalf of his customer. He is definitely
someone offering the services you need for better positioning for you
and/or your business on the internet. Reach him at
303.448.1464 or online at www.ColoradoDigitalArts.com
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