Make Your Own Style

Do you like to wear the same clothes as your friends or do you like to dress differently? Adapting clothes and creating an individual style is very popular in the UK.

Do you know that many of the clothes on the high street look the same these days? So how do young people manage to express their individual style? We interviewed some people in different parts of The UK.

Use your imagination Alexi, an art student from Aldershot

Young creative people in the UK have always ideas to express their styles on their clothes. Some young people cut up their clothes and add zips and safety pins, some young people love wearing anything black but buy chains from shops to hang from their trousers.

Customised T-shirts John, 15 from Cheshire

Printing your own T-shirt is the easiest and most common way to customise clothes. You don’t have to actually make a T-shirt. You can buy a cheap T-shirt and add an image of your choice.

Make your own clothes Corinne, 18, from Dundee

Everyone knows that students don’t have a lot of money. That doesn’t have to be a problem if you’ve got a bit of imagination (and a sewing machine!).

I make my clothes. I do a little sketch in a notebook, buy some fabric in the same colour and copy the trousers using my mum’s sewing machine. Then I go back to the shop wearing my home-made trousers to see if they are the same as the ones in the shop. In fact, they are much better! I love it when people don't believe I make them myself.

Second-hand style Aylish, 13, from Suffolk

Buying second-hand or ‘vintage’ clothes is a fashion option for many young people. Aylish likes using vintage clothes and changing them. She recently cut up an old pair of leggings to make some long fingerless gloves. She can make skirts shorter or longer. Sometimes she just changes the buttons to give clothes a new look. She buys stuff like jackets, trousers and dresses in second-hand shops. By adapting clothes, you can be sure you will always have something original as well as cheap.