Following on from my recent article on mending clothes, I thought I should write a follow-up guide on another facet of wearing and caring for your clothes: altering. Too many times have I seen people avoid wearing clothes they bought for themselves because they don’t quite fit right, or they’ll send them off to the tailor’s for incredibly simple alterations that could easily be done at home.
As sunshine flushed into the doctor’s office, 11-year-old Lionel Messi anxiously waited for the diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency after a year of testing. The young superstar of the youth club Newell’s Old Boys has led the team to be unbeatable, losing only one game in four years, with young Messi himself scoring 500 goals as the member of “The Machine of ‘87”. However, his family has realised that there is something different about the boy other than his prodigious talent – after measuring his height for 24 months, the doctor has found out that he has barely grown since the age of nine. He was 4 feet 4 inches tall (1.32m), and it was predicted that he would only grow to a maximum height of 4 feet 7 inches (1.40m) without intervention.
As December comes into full swing, we find ourselves truly deep within Christmas advert season. The tear-jerkers are out in full effect. I find myself swept up in a world where a single father builds a real-life snow globe, only to discover I’m not watching a five-minute play in between Modern Family reruns but am actually being presented with an advert for Amazon Prime.
This year’s COP27 in Egypt entailed a vital goal of tackling the issue of funds for climate-vulnerable nations, whilst also helping developing countries transition from a coal-based to a green economy. This topic was named “Loss and Damage” and was a continuation from the failed attempts at COP26 to reach a decisive conclusion. But unfortunately, I wouldn’t exactly call this year’s Climate Summit a success either.
What does good posture look like? Many would say it’s sitting ramrod straight, shoulders back, head up, and that bad posture is a teenager’s slumped shoulders, curved back, eyes glued to their screen below. But the reality is much more complicated than that.
