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Meet Australia’s fashion fixers: ‘There’s no apprenticeship, it’s more Bruce Lee style’ Rosemary Wright is the owner and original dyer from Cullachange, a Sydney company that dyes your old clothing. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian As people become more conscious of reducing waste, Australia’s professional menders are welcoming a new wave of customers by DoosieMorris Tue 4 May 2021 13.30 EDT Last modified on Tue 4 May 2021 20.03 EDT “It’s like a puzzle...

Meet Australia’s fashion fixers: ‘There’s no apprenticeship, it’s more Bruce Lee style’ Doosie Morris “It’s like a puzzle,” Yusra Adin says, smiling from behind her sewing machine at Second Stitch, a community textiles initiative in Melbourne’s north. The former civil engineer from Iraq chuckles, recalling the tattered remains of a favourite T-shirt, brought in for repairs after its owner tore it off in shreds during a surprise arachnid encounter. “It was in ...