Listen, as someone who sews as a hobby, don't think taking up sewing your own clothes is the solution to tariffs. I can tell you: buying fabric alone is 3x as expensive as buying a shirt from a thrift store. And the amount of time it takes? 1/
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More than 3x the price in our local thrift stores unless it's cheapo fabric. Shirts at our Goodwills are $5-6 each, depending on whether it's in season.
are going to be the more realistic avenues. So yes, learn to sew, but don't think you're going to make a new wardrobe (tariffs on fabric are already hitting is hard). Learn to mend and make do, or thrift and make over. 4/4
Our society is just not set up for two working parents to be able to manufacture, garden, and do all of these other things that tariffs and food inspection cuts are threatening the mass distribution of. Those all take so much time! Mending (which takes less time) & thrifting 3/
If you already work full time, forget having enough time to make yourself a new pair of pants in enough time for them to be meaningfully replace a dead pair. Add in the labor of kids, household chores, etc... 2/
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