Make do and mend
As part of our topic on World War Two we have been looking at how people had to make do and mend. We decided that we would have a go ourselves. Old Clothes were donated to the school for us to work with. The old articles of clothing were re-designed, cut and sewn, changing the old clothing into something new. We then performed a show to the school. This is a small film of us wearing the finished clothing.
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