do you remember a time when it was a better place to live

[opmania]

I remember when news agents had a stand out the front

with Papers under a rock

You took a Paper and left the money on the stand

Now days they would steal the money,the papers and the stand

and throw the rock through the window as they were running away

[wilk1149]

My mother was a machinist at the Levi factory in Adelaide during the seventies. She refused to pay the money for jeans and I went to school in home made jeans and all the kids picked on me because of them. They were better than the corduroy pants she eventually bought me years later. I really hated them somehow they often were torn by a nail sticking out of somewhere

[azureline**]

I have been sewing since age 7. I made lots of clothes for my own children and nieces.
Now I don't make many clothes. Cost is a factor as clothing can be had for so little cost.

[bluecat*dancing]

Both my grandmother and great-grandmother were dressmakers by trade and never used a pattern, working from measurements only. I have my mum's old sewing machine that she bought in 1959, Its still going strong.

[polksaladallie]

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I haven't sewn clothes since my grandchildren were very small.  Loved making baby and toddler clothes for them and mother and daughter matching dresses when the last one was incubating.  Knitted jumpers for them also. 

I wouldn't have the patience now to do anything other than mending.

[lloydslights]

The satisfaction of making my own blouses, the self covered buttons, the correct length sleeves, it was dressmaking.  No two of a kind.

Individuality.   Classics that never go out of style. 

DEB

[opmania]

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@lloydslights wrote:

The satisfaction of making my own blouses, the self covered buttons, the correct length sleeves, it was dressmaking.  No two of a kind.

Individuality.   Classics that never go out of style. 

DEB

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the first dress I ever made I finished the whole thing and just needed to do the hem

I was cutting about 2 inches off the bottom and unknowing was also cutting through the back of the dress at the same time

I was so proud that I had made something so complicated but it all ended in tears and in the bin .

beyond redemption

[lurker172602]

My DiL sews some of her own clothes.  She does a lovely job.  I'm not sure who taught her, I've never asked, but I know she does mending and such for her mother so I don't suppose it was her.  

[azureline**]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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I haven't sewn clothes since my grandchildren were very small.  Loved making baby and toddler clothes for them and mother and daughter matching dresses when the last one was incubating.  Knitted jumpers for them also. 

I wouldn't have the patience now to do anything other than mending.

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mending? what's that?? lol.

I draw the line at anything more than hems now.

[polksaladallie]

Last effort was new elastic on the mattress protector.  Stuff like that. 

[vicr3000]

One thing I can't do is sew ! (Not surprising really !)

A lady near me does great business turning things up,
possibly mending. Great when you buy a pair of trousers.