It’s Saturday ____ in the Spitalfields area of east ____ and everywhere is busy. Spitalfields is famous for its ____ community, so a lot of these people are ____ in specialist Asian food stores, browsing ____ stalls for exotic fruit, or eating a curry in one of Brick Lane’s ____ curry houses. A lot of people also come to ____ for its fashionable boutique ____ shops. The textile ____ has been important in this area since the seventeenth century. ____, silk was woven by the immigrant French weavers who ____ in the area. The silk trade made Spitalfields a ____ district in the 1700s, before its decline in the nineteenth century. Although textiles are no ____ produced in this area, ____ is still very important and the ____ fashion scene thrives alongside the international ____. This is Junky Styling. Inside this stylish boutique, ____ shoppers can buy a variety of ____ items of vintage clothing. From jumpers to jackets, ____ to accessories – these items have one thing in ____: they’ve all been made ____ recycled clothes. The Junky ____ business was started by two friends, Annika ____ and Kerry Seager, in 1997. The business was originally started to make clothes for their friends, and sell a few items at a small ____ stall. But now, they own their own shop, ____ a small design team, and sell their clothes around the ____. In fact, Junky Styling is quickly becoming one of the ____ popular vintage ____ shops in London Although the ____ has grown, the process of creating their clothes has stayed essentially the same. Behind the Junky Styling shop, off ____ Lane, there’s a studio where the design team work. ____ they are sorting through the used clothing bought from a ____ of traders. They always clean, check, and sort the ____ to guarantee the quality of material used, ____ the clothes need to be in very good condition. Junky Styling ____ avoids selling clothes that are in any way ____. Once the designers have got the ____ they need, they start creating a new item of ____. Right now they’re making a pair of ____ trousers from old shirts and blazers. The ____ always try to make chic, fashionable clothing using their own ____ designs. Junky Styling also offer a ____ to order’ service. Customers can bring in their own clothes and ask the ____ to make a new item for them. ____ really enjoy watching their old, ____ clothes being transformed into something new and stylish. This could be anything – a dress, a bag, a pair of ____ – but in an era ____ most things are mass produced, people love to ____ that they own something unique. As well as this, all the ____ sold in Junky ____ store have been ethically ____. And, while around one million tons of clothing are thrown away every year in the UK alone, the success of Junky Styling ____ that recycling clothes is not only good for the ____, but can be ____ business, too.

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