As I was driving home from school this morning (I've got a fairly long commute to college), I was thinking about how sewing is a slowly dying art. There was a time when a woman had to know how to sew in order to clothe herself and her family. Sewing your own clothes used to be a cheaper alternative to buying ready made clothes. Nowadays, however, sewing your own clothes is significantly more costly that buying the cheap, ready made clothes that are available. But sewing is such a useful skill! Just recently, a nice jacket of mine had lost a button. So I took the spare button and sewed it on where the lost one was supposed to be, and while I was at it, I took all the other buttons off and put them back on again using stronger thread. I doubt I will be losing any more buttons off that jacket! I can fix tears, hem up pants, and do many other mends to ready made clothing to make them last longer. The average person without sewing skills would simply throw away an otherwise perfectly fine pair of pants, for example. And when I sew my own clothes, I can alter the fit to suit my body much better.
The art of sewing may be slowly disappearing, but I will surely keep it alive by continuing to do what I do and teach others, as well.
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