Vancouver Island teen Amira Strain is taking scraps of discarded clothes and turning the would-be rags into high fashion.
Strain scavenges her local Salvation Army for clothes that can’t be sold and collects donations from friends and family.
And, sometimes, that means her haute couture designs had some very humble beginnings.
“I had these giant curtains show up in the rag-it pile and they were hideous to say the least,” she told Jason D’Souza, the host of CBC’s All Points West.
Strain turned the curtains into a formal gown.
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