We sort through Tara’s wardrobe, discarding the worst atrocities and updating others. Tara hands me a pair of dressmaking shears and I set to work turning jeans into shorts, a knee-length skirt into a mini, a T-shirt into a crop top. ‘Your mum will kill me,’ I say, snipping the lace collar from a prissy little print dress and holding it against a plain black T-shirt. ‘But you’re going to look amazing, I promise!’ ‘How d’you know what to do with all this stuff?’ she asks. ‘You should be a fashion designer or a stylist or something …’ ‘No, my sister Skye’s the stylist – she loves vintage and she can make something beautiful out of almost anything. A charity-shop dress, an old sheet … She’s awesome, I kid you not. She helped with the costumes for a film a little while ago, and it’s going to be on TV in the UK on Wednesday night!’ ‘A film?’ Bennie echoes. ‘Cool!’ I shrug. ‘Me and my little sister Coco are in it as extras,’ I say.
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