Do you hand sew a hole in a pair of pants or use a sewing machine?





How many org men know how to sew?

Are women more sexist than men?

I can't sew And my question is how many women can

I can't sew, maybe a button or whatever. I hemmed my pants with a stapler and masking tape once, it was faster.

I cant sew to save myself which is really sad considering my mother and her family were all really talented sewers and so is one of my sisters The really funny part is I used to work in a clothing factory and now my daughter does dancing and I pay someone else to sew sequins on her costumes

PANDURITO said:

I can sew.

chillichocaholic said:

Shame on you!

ZombieKitten said:

and all I can do is sew on a button as well

veronikka said:

I have done that before, but only as a temporary measure.

I have to do EVERYONES sewing for them..

i can, a little. i was better at it when i was younger. i used to mend clothes all the time for people at school.

evenstar3 said:

We used to sew our A-line school skirts in and hem them, so we had tight mini skirts going on.. well we did until the nuns went apeshit and demanded we let them out again.

REDBABY said:

nice. i dunno if i could do anything that complex, mostly i'd fix rips and torn sleeves or whatever my guy friends would do to their clothes while playing sports.

evenstar3 said:

Well no matter how bad our sewing was, that was a MUST, cos our skirts were horrible!

But I did textiles and fashion, so I guess I can be a bit of a whizz when I can be bothered..

I love how the men wont even post here

REDBABY said:

I had a non-regulation skirt at school that I bought at sussan (this goes with that at sussan) halfway through my last year of school they noticed but my mum told them she was not paying $80 for 4 months of wear out of the ugly A-line one they expected her to buy me

ZombieKitten said:

I can sew a button on my shirt, that's about it.

scififilmnerd said:

But you have a hard time posting

hello sexy

i can sew buttons on shirts.

i had to sew an apron in home ec class in junior high. i hated it, but i guess i did okay.

other than that, nope.

Drew taught me a few tricks. And he's got mad skills- y'all know this!



Click on his name in my sig! I dare ya!

Very basic, both by hand and with machine.

In the next couple days I need to sew a binding on the carpets for my Jaguar. It takes an invisible stitch that I am not looking forward to.

I can only sew when I'm properly motivated. For example when I was doing my military service and they told us that we could go to bed when we were done sewing the flag and some other things onto our uniforms. I was done in less than five minutes, lol.

I'm not a man but I sure can sew - used to sew all my medieval dresses, cloaks, shirts, skirts etc. I miss that actually, unless it's velvet cos that's a fucking bitch to sow.

I realised I actually still have two of the dresses I made so I took some pics and here they are:

First, a pale grey velvet ( ) dress in 14th century style with 14 buttons, fake fur collar and sleeve lining. You wear another dress with long sleeves underneath, and a frock underneath that - HOT in the summer.


The buttons, they were a bitch to do:


One of the sleeves, these are purely for decoration. I made them so they're just barely above ground when I walk with my arms down.


The collar:



Then we have the 15th/16th century dress, empire cut as was the style then. This you also wear a long sleeved dress underneath, a puffy billowy one that's supposed to peek out everywhere there are holes - under the arms and in the holes on the sleeves. NOT supposed to peek out at the wrists though



A shot of the immense width of the skirt, you can imagine how long it took to hem that shit


A close-up of the decoration around the throat:


Here you can see the holes underneath the arm. It makes for superb ability to move which was rare back then.


And the sleeves with the holes and the strings of pearl:

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Buttons on shirts, blazers, etc. Anything tougher than that goes to the seamstress.

ZombieKitten said:

A girl after my own heart!

i do a mean button, and will fix a busted seam.
but won't trust myself to hem my own pants
or anything with fine fabric.

when an underwire breaks or pokes out of the material in my bra
i am forever taking the stitching out to fix them
but my handiwork doing them back up would not make my
home ec teacher happy lol... oh well. it works

you know what's interesting? i bet no one darns their socks anymore.
my mom kept a lightbulb in with her darning wool to use in the sock
when she would mend holes. i have never darned a sock ever.

CynthiasSocks said:

I clicked! I've seen his work here before and yes, it's just amazing.

I sew. I do simply things: table cloths, napkins, pillow cases, hemming.