Some of you fellows have been talking about sewing and using sewing machines, so I'll probably be posting something I've posted before, but anyway . . . .
My mother made all of her own clothes most of her life. She also made most of 5 kids' clothes. And for awhile one summer, she worked in a blue jean factory sewing. I remember her saying that they made blue jeans and sewed different brand names in them; some much more expensive than others, but the blue jeans were all the same. She, and my Dad's mother, reupholstered our living room furniture, sofa, chair, etc. once. And we used to have a quilting frame suspended from the ceiling so she could work on making a new quilt in her spare time.:laughing: Grandparents and aunts gave me white shirts to wear to church as Christmas and birthday presents, but otherwise Mother made my shirts. Some of you may remember when chicken and cow feed came in different colored sacks. Whichever of us kids was due for a new shirt (or dress for the girls) would get to go with Dad to the feed store to pick out the material. I went into J.C. Penney's and bought two shirts to wear to the Stamps Quartet School of Music in Dallas when I was 14 years old. First time I'd bought a shirt. I got 3 new pair of blue jeans each Fall for school wear. Sometimes mother had to patch holes in the knees before summer came and she cut them off (and hemmed them for shorts for the summer; didn't wear them with ragged legs like they do now)
When I met my wife, she was living with an aunt and uncle in Dallas until we got married, and her aunt made a lot of her own clothes, drapes for the house, etc. so I bought my wife a fine sewing machine, AND IT WAS RARELY USED.:laughing: So when I retired and we went to full time RVing we gave that sewing machine in a big console to one of our daughters and we bought a portable one to carry in the RV. It, also, was rarely used, so last year we gave it to our granddaughter.:laughing:
