my mother was used to having her clothing custom privately made for her as a...

career woman in govt management and she did a fashion design course and made her own clothing as well one was a red dress in 1940s design with a bow in the empire waist and a little bolero she made it her self and she made some of my clothes and my sisters graduation satin dress and she taught me to make clothing but I have forgotten a lot. I used to have confidence at sewing on the old 1970s singer sewing machine but I have no confidence at the new one we bought a few years ago. mum can draw up draft patterns from scratch she is very good at calculating that but we occasionally had a few laughs at our mistakes as well.

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