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Trying to catch up here -
I have a Baby Lock sewing machine. I made a list of what features I wanted. The usual things people consider like automatic threading etc.. I also wanted plenty of room to the right of the needle and LIGHT which I need to be able to see. I was fortunate in that I could afford to buy the machine I wanted. After choosing from each of the common brands I looked at things like repair and maintenance. Baby Lock was the only brand that had a dealer less than three hours away .
 
My Victorian minded mum didn't let me wear trousers of any type. The first thing I bought when I started working was - jeans. She was upset and horrified because 'ladies' didn't dress like men. Eventually she started wearing 'slacks' too.
 
KayTheCurler said:
Trying to catch up here -
I have a Baby Lock sewing machine. I made a list of what features I wanted. The usual things people consider like automatic threading etc.. I also wanted plenty of room to the right of the needle and LIGHT which I need to be able to see. I was fortunate in that I could afford to buy the machine I wanted. After choosing from each of the common brands I looked at things like repair and maintenance. Baby Lock was the only brand that had a dealer less than three hours away .
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I'd never heard of Baby Lock until fairly recently. How do you like it?

We're lucky here. There's a store that sells Janome and Bernina, and another store that sells Baby Lock and Pfaff. I sometimes get tempted upgrade to a new machine. There are some pretty machines that do cool things.
 
I remember the dress codes from my earliest school days. Girls did NOT wear slacks; always dresses or skirts. Later on, for a brief time, blue jeans were forbidden at one school I attended. Green jeans, red jeans or black jeans were OK, but not blue jeans... not sure why, but I sometimes sus[ect it had to do with a James Dean rebel image, that the school admin wanted to stamp out. I suspect if James Dean had had a habit of wearing neckties, they would have been banned as well.
 
Is the wearing of jeans an indication of slack personalities ... especially if hitched up to support the hind end?
Was the past ethics a corruption of powerful morals?

It is said power and moral condensates are extractive of the fug ...
 
Redbaron said:
I remember the dress codes from my earliest school days. Girls did NOT wear slacks; always dresses or skirts. Later on, for a brief time, blue jeans were forbidden at one school I attended. Green jeans, red jeans or black jeans were OK, but not blue jeans... not sure why, but I sometimes sus[ect it had to do with a James Dean rebel image, that the school admin wanted to stamp out. I suspect if James Dean had had a habit of wearing neckties, they would have been banned as well.
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We had jean bans and some other dress code stuff, but don't ever recall girls being banned from wearing pants of any kind. The jean bans generally applied to everyone. Length of shorts/skirts was another thing that was frequently regulated. It isn't just an old thing, either. There was a protest at Little M's high school over gender inequities in the dress code. That would have been maybe 5-6 years ago.
 
I think I'm a couple of years older than you two. I remember distinctly the very first pair of pants worn to school. I was in either Grade 7 or 8.
 
Northwind said:
I'd never heard of Baby Lock until fairly recently. How do you like it?

We're lucky here. There's a store that sells Janome and Bernina, and another store that sells Baby Lock and Pfaff. I sometimes get tempted upgrade to a new machine. There are some pretty machines that do cool things.
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I would rate the BabyLock I have as 'OK'. I struggle with the bobbin that seems too fiddly for easy insertion by my klutzy hands. There are some good features but they are on similar priced machines from other companies. I really like the dealer but really dislike the way they 'forget' to send her needed information and parts.
 
I think there was a definitive change mid the sixties. my sister, born 1950 wore skirts. They had to be knee length and the teacher would make girls kneel to see if the skirt touched the ground. A public high school, not a catholic school. That would have been 63-69 or so. But I started high school in 71 and wore jeans every day I could. It annoyed my sister totally

i sewed when our kids were little though mainly halloween costumes as I remember. God, a stegasourqus costumer with feels like dozen of pieces really sticks in my mind. Though both kids wore it, and a nephew and it lived for years in the dress up box so lots of use

glad you are getting into sewing again. Start a thread. It would be fun to see projects
 
Good morning! Let the fun begin! Monday is here! There is no dress code, here, we only ask that what you wear doesn't scare the cat.

Coffee's up, water for tea, etc, is hot.

C(_)/ c\_/ c(_) c[_]
 
Shocked Scaredy Cat GIF by TikTok


Damn, guess I need to change.

:D

Good morning! Kettle is boiling. I am making a pot of Coronation Street. Anyone else for tea?
 
It's lovely & sunny here today - I think we will wander off to a local conservation area where we can poke around in the woods for a while. Hard to resist going out to clean up the garden - but it's still tooooo early!!
 
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