My mother made her own clothes for year
Until her eyesight failed anyway.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:41, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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.
( 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.
( 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.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:09, Reply)

Wunda-Web?
I'm not familar with it, what is it?
( 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.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 11:19, Reply)