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Upcycle Rates

Take a garment that just isn’t quite right and make it something special.

$35

Improve the look and fit of a garment with a minor tweak.

  • Lower a simple neckline
  • Raise a hemline
  • Reduce pant flare
  • Take in side seems
  • Create a side seem slit

$75

Refresh a garment with a key change.

  • Recreate straps
  • Insert pockets
  • Add decorative trim
  • Reinvent silhouette
  • Other changes that take up to three hours of design and execution time

$150

Reinvent a garment with more time-consuming changes.

  • Replace a portion of the garment
  • Adjust a collared or complex neckline
  • Add panels to extend size
  • Make more than one key change (described above)
  • Other changes that take up to three hours of design and execution time

$250+

Repurpose a garments materials in a totally new design.

  • Convert a dress into a two piece
  • Combine several garments into something new
  • The sky is the limit!