sewing is one of those skills everyone with the ability should know IMO. i’ve known too many people who just throw out perfectly servicable clothing and bedding because of tears or buttons that have fallen off and these can be fixed at home. sewing’s not hard either.
sewing, like baking bread, is one of those basic skills that corporations have convinced people is just impossible or too expensive for the average person to do in order to manipulate people into buying things.
i’m not saying sewing is possible for everyone, but if you have motor skills fine enough to, say, replace lead in a mechanical pencil, you can learn to sew, and you can help people who can’t sew. here’s a good guide with gifs.
this is what we mean when we say civilization de-skills us to make us dependent
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! 🙂
Hello Friends! Strangers frequently will come up to me and ask “what happened to your leg?”, which as many of you may know, gets really old really fast. I was at a doctor’s appointment two weeks ago and met a man with a broken leg wearing a “Leg Story – $5” shirt. Unfortunately, his sister had made his for him, and it’s expensive to buy just one custom, well-made, t-shirt. There are a few amputee support websites that sell shirts like this, but they all have an image of an amputee on them.
So I decided to make a “Leg Story – $5” shirt for anyone who is tired of having to explain themselves to complete strangers week after week. For wheelchair users, for people who some days need mobility devices and some days do not, for people who get told “oh, I’m so sorry” after explaining to someone that a condition is permanent. Make some money off their intrusive questions. The shirts are being sold with no mark up from cost of production, and the fabric is a a super soft 60/40 cotton polyester blend. We need 49 orders by September 21st in order for the shipment to be placed, and if we don’t reach 49 orders then everyone who did place an order will have their money refunded. If we do reach 49 orders then orders will ship October 1st!
[image description: Four short sleeved t-shirts with off-white text that says “Leg Story – $5”. One shirt is light grey, one is maroon, one is navy blue, and one is dark purple.]
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