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Sat 04 Apr 2007I made it myselfChloe Broaders, dressmakerChloe Broaders, who is 16 and from Bray, Co Wicklow, has been making her own clothes since she was 13. One day, not wanting to wear what everybody else was wearing, she decided to "go out on a limb and get Mom's sewing machine out", using material from a local store and from cut-up charity-shop clothes.