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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    Honestly. Its much more time consuming to change one item professionally.

    Then to make 1000s in a factory setting.

    15 is less then 1/2 hour when 6ou take all th3 other costs of running a small business into account.

    As another said. A 20quid shirt 8s perfect for learning to play yourself.

    Don’t do cloths myself. (Little interest.) I make cushions and bedding etc for my little boat.

    But you can hand sew such things. Will take a good while. Or find a friend with a machine who is willing to let you learn. You never know you may find a new hobby.

    If you live near South oxon. Pm me I may be willing to let you play with mine when I get back home.

    Once you learn the basics of using a machine. Plenty of good books d youtube vids on clothing techniques. Plus other stuff. Their are 2 great subs on reddit. Hopefully they will federated soon. I should ask the mods if anyone is interested. I may be willing to run sewingforbeginers here.

  • music@feddit.uk
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    I hate to say it, but first world problems. It costs a fraction of what it should cost to produce the item of clothing. Or just capitalism.

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      Aren’t British Problems first world problems by definition? Considering the sort of thing we post on here, or on the equivalent forum on The Site That Shall Not Be Named. I can’t imagine, for example, many Syrians being bothered by the fact that their local Greggs has run out of vegan sausage rolls.

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    There might be a craft space somewhere in your town - they’re becoming more common. Someone there would likely do it for you for the fun of it!

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        Very true, very true. You could probably do a fair job pressing well and then hand sewing it even without any prior experience whatsoever, tbh.

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    Same situation here. £40 to shorten the arms on a leather jacket I got for £50.

    But that was a Vinted buy and worth way more, and the alteration will make the leather jacket more valuable to me because it’ll fit me properly for life.

    So I paid it without flinching or making a post about it.

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    I found a handheld sewing machine thing in Aldi a while ago for a tenner. I don’t know if something like that would do a good job of taking up a t-shirt, but maybe?

    • Loccy@feddit.ukOP
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      I actually have one of those (a JML thing I got for Christmas as a stocking filler, but I imagine the one in Aldi is made at the same Taiwanese plant). I might have a crack at doing one on a shirt I dont care that much about and see how it turns out. No harm, no foul I suppose.