I have restrained myself from replying to a comment on Youtube, but here I am instead. The comment: "I want to dress like this so bad, I just cant find cheap clothes that go with this style"
Sweetie. Honey. Sweet summer child, you guileless little future suckling piglet of capitalism - there is no ethical way to find a full Edwardian style ensemble for CHEAP jesus fuck sometimes I forget that most people have no idea how long it takes to actually make anything! 🙃
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)
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in reply to Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni) • • •They've realised the first part, "I can't afford to buy these things I like with the money I make!", but have not yet clued into why they can't afford it!
Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •It is a very face palming kind of thing, truly.
I guess this is a good reason why everyone should have to take sewing in school.
Cherime
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Filomel
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I'm especially bothered when they treat tech products as expendable trash. For example, when a laptop starts getting slow and they just throw it away. Instead of cleaning it up and gifting it to someone who may be thrilled to get a working machine.
There is no respect toward the knowledge and technological sophistication needed to create these things. They don't know how these things are made or how they work, and don't care.
Then it's no wonder they have no respect for craft.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Filomel • • •@Filomel At least there's now that thing where computer shops will take in or buy people's old computers (both PC and laptop) and refurbish them or take them apart for parts, then sell them for cheap!
I'm extremely more of a software gal than a hardware gal and would be extremely hesitant about the most simple operations, but know where to relinquish the obsolete to me but still workable stuff... But a lot of people could really be informed of how to do it too
int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •SandraSchützSewingforyourLife
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in reply to SandraSchützSewingforyourLife • • •The Dress Developer
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I just feel bad for people who don't have this knowledge. And there's also the understanding of cost over time: a really good quality garment will last far far far longer than junk, meaning that the cost gets spread out across numerous years.
You might call it an... In-vest-ment.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia I can think of a way to get a full Edwardian style ensemble for cheap, but then it requires something between time and a frigging lot of time, depending on the skills and tools one already has.
It also depends on the availability of cheap, but still 100% natural fibers, sheets and curtains in the thrift stores in your area.
Sini Tuulia
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia I suspected something like that :(
but now I sort-of want to try and make some back-of-envelope calculation on how cheap you can get by handsewing thrifted materials with gratis patterns from the internet
(the frigging lot of time option :D )
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