Australian Stitches

ACTIVE STYLE

The fashionable side of the fitness wear industry has taken flight. It’s a clothing category that has infiltrated almost every other area of our closets, with hoodies, yoga pants and the like now seen on the street as much as, if not more than, in a gym. But what’s out there seems to be tailor-made only for bodies that look like our super-fit model on these pages. What‘s the less-than-lithe to do?

Charlott Kisvarda, director of Australian active lifestyle brand ‘Fit Image’, offers some handy tips and tricks on these four pages to use when sewing

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