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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I'm a bit tired too.
I went to the pub last night.

What have you done to your dress?
(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:13, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
I have shortened the torso.
I have a very short torso. Fitted dresses sit in the wrong place and don't accommodate my shape, but when you shorten the straps (in this case it was more complicated than straps) everything falls into place.
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:22, Reply)
So you've taken a dress that doesn't fit, and made it fit?

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:23, Reply)
Yup!

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:29, Reply)
Good work!
Are you a dab-hand with a Singer?
(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:29, Reply)
Mine is a Singer actually!
Nope, I'm not a dab hand, but I'm determined to learn this year.
I can make cushions, curtains and do alterations, but I want to make clothes and make a quilt.
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:32, Reply)
My mother made her own clothes for year
Until her eyesight failed anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:41, Reply)
It's not as affordable as it was either
but I do think I'll benefit if I learn to tailor-make.
I have peculiar tastes, and then there's the short torso.
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:03, Reply)
Sweatshops have made clothes very cheap these days.
Back when I were a lad, clothes were nearly always 'adjusted' by a well meaning parent, school trousers were always too big so they'd be taken up and taken in, only for you to grow into them and for the changes to be undone.

It's a skill people don't seem to need these days, as a supermarket will kit out a child in a school uniform for about a fiver.
(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:07, Reply)
Wunda-Web was my mother's friend
So my Dad was the one who taught me how to sew buttons on and things.
(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:09, Reply)
Wunda-Web?
I'm not familar with it, what is it?
(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:13, Reply)
Iron-on stuff that sticks hems, if you can't sew or are in a hurry.

(I helped save b3ta! Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:19, Reply)

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