Re: Wondering

Joy Beeson wrote:

When I was growing up, it was assumed that every female child would
learn to make simple garments. Referring to sewing as a "hobby" still
sounds odd to me, as if one made a "hobby" of brushing one's teeth.

You are missing out on a whole category of sewing hobbyists. There are lots of people out there who enjoy sewing, but refuse to try to make their own clothes because "nothing I make ever fits, anyway" or "nothing I make looks good when I finish it", but they will spend many hours making such things as table runners, bags of various kinds, wall hangings etc. and derive a great deal of satisfaction from these projects.

On the other hand, the custom-clothing factory with the network of
measuring booths that we were supposed to have along about now hasn't
been heard from since the early 1990's. So people who aren't exactly the same size and shape as the mannequins
that mass-produced clothing is designed on are going to have some
incentive to learn how to sew.

Which is why many of us on this board have invested in pattern drafting software. It really does help, once you get used to it. Of course, no software will make a plus-size woman look like the emaciated waif on the pattern envelope, so one also needs to learn to decipher which styles are appropriate and which colors flatter.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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