Clare Pater proves that you can be both frum and fashionable

Fed up with the lack of trendy yet modest clothes, fashion designer Clare Pater decided to take matters into her own hands.

The 25-year-old Orthodox mother-of-one has launched a clothing company providing custom-made modest clothing and accessories.

Mrs Pater, a former designer at leading high-street chain River Island, tells People: “I often found that when I was going shopping none of the fashionable clothes were appropriate. I used to think: ‘If only the skirt was a bit longer or the neck a bit higher’ — and so I would end up doing it myself.

“I wished things could just have been ready-made. There are so little suitable clothes on the high street today.”