To the sewers out there, do you feel sewing to make your own clothes is a vanishing craft?

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1 I think that the complexity of a piece of clothing is directly related to the skill of the sewer. While a novice can make a plain garment, such garments are not necessarily what young, fashionable people want to wear because they might look "home made. " I can see where this would cause young people to not want to bother, because it takes so long to get the skill that to them it's just not worth it.(The same thing is happening with knitting: witness the "quick knits" and "chunky yarn" phenomenon.)However, a person who sews with skill can make incredibly rich garments.

These people sometimes turn to niche markets, like making Renaissance Faire garb.(In fact, making garb might interest the newbies enough to want to sew. ) The question is, does anyone see this as a skill worth acquiring, when you can just buy nice clothes?(Of course, those nice clothes sometimes fall apart after one washing, but handmade clothes are often stronger and longer-lasting.)Another issue is expense. Nice fabric to make a dress or suit can cost as much, or more, than a prefab suit.

Then, labor must be figured in.Is it cheaper to buy the labor of an oppressed Rhodesian child, or to do it yourself? Lax labor laws and sweatshops overseas make clothing cheaper here. So yes, I think it is a dying art.

Maybe someday, when it costs more to transport cheap imports, people will start making things themselves again. Won't that be a funny learning curve to watch happen? I don't sew, so I'm not taking up an answer slot.

However, I do spin my own yarn and make my own things, as well as garden, make soap, etc. -- so I can understand what you mean when you say these things..

Like you, I learned sewing, crochet and knitting in school, for me in elementary school. For a long time, I didn't use any of my skills except for the exceptional crochet dolly to pass the time. Than when I was pregnant with my son, I started knitting little baby clothes, something simple and, because it was so small, fast to make.

I have not stopped since. For a while, I had a sewing craze, because I bought a sewing machine, and I made some skirts and tops. I also made Halloween costumes first for my son, than for my daughter.

This dwindled down to nothing (the sewing), but I still knit a lot. For years, it seemed a lost art, but recently I see more and more young people learning to knit and crochet. I see clubs and groups forming.

People want to make unique pieces that gives their creativity a good work out. There is a sense of accomplishment in making something with your own hands. I think it will be the same for sewing: it will come back into fashion.

It is already happening: I see some giant craft stores opening in my area, so there must be a market. The old JoAnn closed to make space for another one 4 times bigger and better. No matter how busy we are, or maybe because we are too busy, we need some outlet to relax us.

For me, it's knitting.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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