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A day for Frankenclothing?
Jul. 17th, 2020 08:55 amSupposedly, many people have been wearing pajamas for much of this time period. We have been wearing clean daytime clothes every day, but I have been doing some thinking about indoor-only clothing. I wore a skirt the other day that has a broken zipper (broken at the bottom, so not closeable at all). My sister noticed the gap from across the continent and across the room (I briefly had my back to the screen). I have a lightweight short linen dress that is very comfortable on hot days, but has three holes, one of them fairly large, in a back panel. I have a pair of old soft leggings with POCKETS, but the waistband elastic has decomposed. The leggings I am wearing today have gaping holes in the thigh that have been mended and re-torn a number of times over the years.
In the attic of everything, there is not just storage, but my sewing machine. It is a treadle machine, very old, and definitely not moveable. It occurred to me that today will be the last practical machine sewing day for a while, because after today, it will be all 90s every day, hence quite unpleasant in the attic. If I declare all of these garments to be for at-home use only, can I give myself leave to mend them without worrying how they look? I'm thinking of replacing the maroon linen panel with bright orange cotton aloha fabric. Nobody will think I'm a boogaloo boy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement
I haven't tried to replace a waistband in years, but what the heck? If it looks bunchy, nobody will see it.
Use it up! Wear it out! Make it do or do without! (says someone who has scads of other garments, so doing without isn't really the issue here. I do tend to love some items to death, though, so there are other frayed clothes in regular rotation).
In the attic of everything, there is not just storage, but my sewing machine. It is a treadle machine, very old, and definitely not moveable. It occurred to me that today will be the last practical machine sewing day for a while, because after today, it will be all 90s every day, hence quite unpleasant in the attic. If I declare all of these garments to be for at-home use only, can I give myself leave to mend them without worrying how they look? I'm thinking of replacing the maroon linen panel with bright orange cotton aloha fabric. Nobody will think I'm a boogaloo boy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement
I haven't tried to replace a waistband in years, but what the heck? If it looks bunchy, nobody will see it.
Use it up! Wear it out! Make it do or do without! (says someone who has scads of other garments, so doing without isn't really the issue here. I do tend to love some items to death, though, so there are other frayed clothes in regular rotation).
