Staff and students at a Glasgow college are putting their fashion skills to good use by helping to supply frontline NHS workers with essential scrubs.
Former students and current staff members at Glasgow Kelvin College’s fashion department are donating fabrics and making patterns for the workwear to support the NHS Scotland ‘For the Love of Scrubs’ campaign.
A call was sent out by fashion industry experts Mirka and Maja from Mirka Bridal Couture, Holly Baxter from Fabric Bazaar and Clare Boyle for skilled seamstresses to manufacture the essential workwear needed by those working on the coronavirus frontline.
The staff and students from Glasgow Kelvin were among an army of around 15,000 volunteers who stepped up to donate the fabrics, threads and elastics needed. Not only that, but the patterns the teaching staff are putting together will be posted to machinists everywhere to help them to create the necessary scrubs.
Fashion Design Lecturer, Sandra Thomson, said: “We are all keen to try and help in some way and this campaign, For the Love of Scrubs, is an ideal opportunity for us to put our expertise in textiles and our classroom resources into action.
“The supplies are exactly what is needed for the machinists to produce quality workwear for the NHS. In addition, colleagues and I are working hard to create, cut and deliver the patterns, in a range of sizes, by post and online. Demand has been amazing and we’re shipping patterns for gowns and other items out on a daily basis.
“It was a very emotional visit to drop off supplies with Holly. She’s under so much stress and was overwhelmed by the College donation. We really do feel that we are all in this together and are happy to make any contribution we can in the effort to combat this virus.”
The For the Love of Scrubs campaign is also looking for public donations.
Funds raised will be used to purchase provide the volunteer seamstresses with the fabric and sewing supplies needed to construct the scrubs and dispatch them to hospitals accepting donations.
Click here to donate.
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