Book excerpt: This essential guide to fashion is packed with over 100 inspirational, easy, and stylish ideas for customizing clothes -- from stenciling designs onto a T-shirt, edging a skirt with sequin-trim, and adding bead flowers to the cuff of a sweater to decorating handbags, purses, belts, and hair accessories. Whether a reader aspires to give a new lease on life to an old pair of jeans, update a classic cardigan, or jazz up a boring skirt, these easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and specially commissioned photographs of the end results will explain precisely how. An invaluable glossary of techniques and stitches provides all the professional know-how necessary to achieve expert results.