I think dudes who never learn to sew are sleeping. 🧵 🪡
Its one of the most useful life skills.
You can extend the life of your clothes for years. Or make them. You can even make tents.
My wife laughed at me when i said i wanted a highend sewing machine for my birthday years ago.
She doesn’t laugh now when she asks me to repair her clothes. Especially since i got the high end machine for $25 at a yard sale from another dude who didnt know how to sew.
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Have repaired favorite backpacks many times. No machine but a big fan of needle and thread!
Just finished hand sewing this seam on the kids bean bag chair last week. I learned to sew years ago at 17 when I moved out on my own. Just got asked from the wife to sew a few holes in her pants lol 
Real, meaningful life is making a comeback.
Think about it. For the last 100 years technology and manufacturing with only an eye to "efficiency", internal and external, has freed up so much time for humans to do "other stuff" with.
So, what have we chosen to do with that new found time? Stare at screens, drink ourselves into various levels of oblivion, play endless games with each other (nefarious and otherwise), read reams of shit about how politics matter, and forget how do do some of the simplest of tasks that reinforce wealth.
Now we have come to a point where people get mad because you're not outraged at some such and so (or not outraged enough). One hundred years ago we didn't have time for any of this because we were growing and hunting our own food, making and repairing our own clothes, and really knowing each other as loved ones and kindred spirits at a scale that made sense (Dunbar's Number).
As the pendulum swings back, make sure that you're not in its way.
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Yup
They used to teach it in schools. I bought a machine a while back and promptly realized I didn't remember crap. Luckily I can still do a couple hand stitches. But I plan on putting that damn sewing machine to use. I want to make a track suit that would hold my conceal carry gun comfortably and securely. No floppy track pants.
Learnt to sew in my early teens, taught by my mother and the reality we were dirt poor. Repairing clothes, socks and other things was essential as I didn't have an alternative.
As you say, it's a necessary basic skill, like cooking and simple car repairs.
#ersatz
Real men teach their wives to cook, clean, do laundry and sew. We figure out how do it ourselves because nobody taught us. Boomer mothers didn't pass it on to their bratty X girls and now its lost.
Fix the money, fix the clothes.
