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What are your favorite brands of clothing?

Dargelos said:
Save the planet with a needle and thread. You don't need to be a skilled seamstress, just a bit of time sewing up worn clothes lets you make them last for years. With a bit more practice, learn to add fake designer labels, then you can change your brand from season to season.
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I wish I had time to get experienced at making button holes. I have two sewing machines that are supposed to have that feature, but I have never been able to master it.

I do have some skill at replacing and adding snaps, though, and all the necessary tools and supplies.
 
My cheats way is to coat the site area with water soluble glue. Iron it to make the glue dry quickly. Make the slit with an xacto knife. Stitch the edges by hand. The glue comes out at first wash.
 
I have my Mom's Singer sewing machine attachment that makes button holes. It uses cams to vary the size (length) and oh, by the way, do you want a simple slit or would you like a keyhole button hole?
I have no idea what it cost but my eight year old self was blown away.
 
fredroy said:
I have my Mom's Singer sewing machine attachment that makes button holes. It uses cams to vary the size (length) and oh, by the way, do you want a simple slit or would you like a keyhole button hole?
I have no idea what it cost but my eight year old self was blown away.
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I think my biggest hold up learning these machines is that none of my cats have ever been afraid of them and think it's game on.
 
Singer Sewing Machines are da bomb. Well, my Mom's is. I have my own and it works and it's been in its box in the back bedroom closet for 10 or so years. I think it can do button holes but I don't know for sure or actually care. I bought it for a project that I can't recall.

I saved and spent some of my allowance and bought a tube of Singer grease. All of 25¢. I was eight pushing nine. I read the book and lubed the machine where it needed grease and 3nOne oil elsewhere. Mom knew I did this. She gave permission. And she forgot.... so six months later she almost stitched her finger.

I have the machine now. I still have enough grease. Yes, I tend to be a packrat. So I'll do that real soon. Not that I plan on sewing anything. More of preservation thing.
 
fredroy said:
I have the machine now. I still have enough grease. Yes, I tend to be a packrat. So I'll do that real soon. Not that I plan on sewing anything. More of preservation thing.
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And what's starting to bug me is that none of the kids want any of our shit. Nothing. Not even the quilts their grandmother made. I get it, they have lots of their own shit.

Oh hey, how about that grandfather clock I built. Zero. Oh, I need to post that picture with me in my Izod shorts and clock case.

I reckon it's all going to the dump.

It bothers me.

But I'm not selling the place. They'll get everything someday.
 
Dargelos said:
Save the planet with a needle and thread. You don't need to be a skilled seamstress, just a bit of time sewing up worn clothes lets you make them last for years. With a bit more practice, learn to add fake designer labels, then you can change your brand from season to season.
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Not a bad idea, and it's something that appeals to someone like me who likes to get full use of things. But it's been my bitter experience that when something needs mending the chances are that other rips/holes/problems will come very, very soon.
 
I don't really have any favorite brands. I shop thrift shops, and I'm happy with something cheap, in decent repair, and that fits me. The only thing I'm remotely picky about is that I do prefer 100% cotton for many things.
 
Dargelos said:
Save the planet with a needle and thread. You don't need to be a skilled seamstress, just a bit of time sewing up worn clothes lets you make them last for years. With a bit more practice, learn to add fake designer labels, then you can change your brand from season to season.
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I no longer have the visual acuity to do it, but we take everything in to be mended in town by our mall semastress. Sometimes they will say that it might be cheaper to buy new...but then it wouldn't be the same...
 
LoveMyPeppermill said:
Yeah, polyester make me smell bad.
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I had some polyester shirts in high schools and yeah. Stink. I take baths and use deodorant. I've decided it was "teen boy hormones" because how in hell do my feet stink that bad when I get home from school?
Clean feet. Clean socks. Clean/dry shoes. And jeeb..... that went away after almost a year. My little brother did the same thing with stinky feet. As in "take your shoes and socks off in the garage and go directly to the bathroom and wash your feet".

I have some polyester polo style shirts from Amazon. So, Chinese. Nice shirts. I don't get smelly. Polyester has changed from when I was in highschool.
 
rareboy said:
I no longer have the visual acuity to do it, but we take everything in to be mended in town by our mall semastress. Sometimes they will say that it might be cheaper to buy new...but then it wouldn't be the same...
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I do need a strong spotlight to thread a needle these days, suppose I will need cataracts sometime but the waiting list for that stretches beyond the horizon. No chance until Sir Kier is in charge. Sewing is really good for anyone feeling edgy, like in nicotine starvation. Concentrating on not putting the needle through your thumb does take your mind away from all your other daily troubles.
 
fredroy said:
I had some polyester shirts in high schools and yeah. Stink. I take baths and use deodorant. I've decided it was "teen boy hormones" because how in hell do my feet stink that bad when I get home from school?
Clean feet. Clean socks. Clean/dry shoes. And jeeb..... that went away after almost a year. My little brother did the same thing with stinky feet. As in "take your shoes and socks off in the garage and go directly to the bathroom and wash your feet".

I have some polyester polo style shirts from Amazon. So, Chinese. Nice shirts. I don't get smelly. Polyester has changed from when I was in highschool.
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Everybody at school had to wear the same grey nylon uniform shirt so we all had the same permanently stale smell. And there was only two of them so you could hardly have a fresh one every day. Which was good in a way because nobody could accuse anyone else of being smelly, we were all the same. Maybe that's what made me a socialist.
 
Polyester has/hosts it's own somewhat unique bacteria that thrives on perspiration. That's what makes it foul.

It's like the way piss doesn't really stink so badly until bacteria starts breaking it down.
 
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