From workshops to the catwalk - why mended clothes are going mainstream

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Image caption, Alice Brown uses felt animals to cover holes and stains on her clothes

By Lucy Hooker

Business reporter

If Alice Brown is browsing in second-hand shops and finds a jumper with a hole, that won't stop her buying it.

"I see it as challenge," says the 27-year-old forest ranger from Lincolnshire.

She is a champion of the growing fashion for eye-catching repairs.

Over the last year she has developed her own unique style, needle-felting cute animals and insects to cover moth holes, stains and other imperfections, winning her a huge following online.

"The natural place for decoration is in the centre at the front.…