That's how he learned to sew, by altering clothes to his liking, in a fitted, tailored style inspired by his uncles, businessmen in Ghana, even if his first creation was a pair of pants made from a bedsheet.

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Learned how to sew at age 9 by using dolls as mannequins.

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One solution, being promoted by a company called LifeShirt.com, based in Ojai, California, is to sew all the necessary hardware into your clothes.

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