Ways to help individuals and organisations keep clothes alive longer.
Florence Saves Clothes offers the full range of conventional and sustainable garment services: from hemming trousers and fixing seams to turning coats into jackets, dresses into coats and ball gowns into skirts! We provide repair and redesign services on YOUR doorstep or ours. That’s right – you can come to our mobile mending pop-ups, by appointment in our workroom, or we can come to your home or workplace. We even knowledge-share with regular community workshops. Last but not least, we sell a wide range of cool SAVED stuff on our shop. Check it out.
For the public
House Calls and Mobile Mending
Does it seem hard to find the right time to gather up your garments and visit an alterations shop? We already know the answer is yes, especially if you have kiddies at home, mobility challenges or are simply snowed under with work. That's why we come to you when you need it. We can pull up in our roomy mobile workroom or your living room.
Experts at transforming old into new
Got a beautiful dress that you'll never wear again but you would if it was a skirt? What about a top quality sports jacket that you'd wear if the sleeves were shorter and it had totally different buttons? With a long history of working with top fashion houses and making bespoke designs, Florence Saves Clothes will make garments that are gathering dust into things you wear every week.
Community workshops and pop-ups
We hold Saturday street pop-ups where people drop in with their repairs, alterations and help with their own projects. We also run formal community centre or event-space workshops whenever we can. All your basic tools, threads sewing machines are provided. Great for individuals to come together and learn, save and sew with kindred spirits.
For business
Sandy's kimono coat started out as three velvet cocktail dresses that hadn't seen the light of day for 15 years....now they're enjoying a new life at festivals and parties in this fun, versatile form. What do you have that deserves a second chance?
