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Nov. 17th, 2013 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenlloHave been thinking about this post, and comments therein. My conclusion: either I'm a total lightweight and that there are some uber-sewing skills that I've never learnt and which apparently takes lots of time to master, or that I'm an arrogant jerk in thinking that simple (I emphasise simple) sewing skills isn't that hard to learn provided you are interested and have reasonable motor skills (and time and money for equipment and such).
I learnt to sew when I was in school for O levels. I started off with a gathered skirt (guh, really horrible but I did wear it at home - waste not and all that) and my final projects were a collared shirt and a child's dress. That child's dress was... my god the embroidery that went on it. It was a totally unrealistic dress for a kid to wear: it was long and white, with yards and yards of itchy fabric, aforesaid embroidery and a goddamn sailor's collar.
I cannot make skirts because I suck at making waistbands, so I make blouses and dresses. I mean, I'm not at all on the level of Pattern Magic, but I can make a simple lined dress that's ok for normal office wear and blouses or camisoles to wear with storebought trousers. I can't get over the idea that homemade clothing means (only) gathered skirts with drawstrings and apparently amateurish rectangles sewn together. It's not. Mind you, lack of commercial equipment does mean that buttonholes don't look as 'finished' and such but you can work around these things and I can put in a zip just fine...? You can make reasonably nice clothing even at home, always supposing you want to. Yes, they can look 'different', as in, not fast fashion, as in 'not like what everyone else is wearing'. But it doesn't mean they look bad or cheap or second-rate or unprofessional. It does help that I use reasonably nice, good quality fabrics. Nice fabrics do the heavy lifting in modern fashion.
(I've been forced to question whether I've been looking like a factory reject all these years or or whether my homemade clothing does stand up to some scrutiny. Hehe.)
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Born from the Earth, Tony/Steve (eventual), Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics and AU, explicit sex, WIP, Iron Man and Avengers, by venusm. Please read author's notes and warnings.
Hm, I think this is my first A/B/O rec. Or not, maybe I've forgotten the previous instances. I do tend to be wary of them, entertaining as they (some of them, anyway) are. This one is pretty good.
Temeraire, Bond/Q, Skyfall, by professorfangirl (lizeckhart). And so is this.
Jagged Little Pill series, comprising also Scar Tissue, Good Riddance, and The Day the World Went Away, Bond/Q, Skyfall, by beederiffic
I learnt to sew when I was in school for O levels. I started off with a gathered skirt (guh, really horrible but I did wear it at home - waste not and all that) and my final projects were a collared shirt and a child's dress. That child's dress was... my god the embroidery that went on it. It was a totally unrealistic dress for a kid to wear: it was long and white, with yards and yards of itchy fabric, aforesaid embroidery and a goddamn sailor's collar.
I cannot make skirts because I suck at making waistbands, so I make blouses and dresses. I mean, I'm not at all on the level of Pattern Magic, but I can make a simple lined dress that's ok for normal office wear and blouses or camisoles to wear with storebought trousers. I can't get over the idea that homemade clothing means (only) gathered skirts with drawstrings and apparently amateurish rectangles sewn together. It's not. Mind you, lack of commercial equipment does mean that buttonholes don't look as 'finished' and such but you can work around these things and I can put in a zip just fine...? You can make reasonably nice clothing even at home, always supposing you want to. Yes, they can look 'different', as in, not fast fashion, as in 'not like what everyone else is wearing'. But it doesn't mean they look bad or cheap or second-rate or unprofessional. It does help that I use reasonably nice, good quality fabrics. Nice fabrics do the heavy lifting in modern fashion.
(I've been forced to question whether I've been looking like a factory reject all these years or or whether my homemade clothing does stand up to some scrutiny. Hehe.)
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Born from the Earth, Tony/Steve (eventual), Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics and AU, explicit sex, WIP, Iron Man and Avengers, by venusm. Please read author's notes and warnings.
Hm, I think this is my first A/B/O rec. Or not, maybe I've forgotten the previous instances. I do tend to be wary of them, entertaining as they (some of them, anyway) are. This one is pretty good.
Temeraire, Bond/Q, Skyfall, by professorfangirl (lizeckhart). And so is this.
Jagged Little Pill series, comprising also Scar Tissue, Good Riddance, and The Day the World Went Away, Bond/Q, Skyfall, by beederiffic