Learn how to sew right now no I'm not kidding. Sewing is such an essential life skill to have ESPECIALLY if you have a desire to achieve a more sustainable personal lifestyle. Want to escape the whims of capitalism, fast fashion, and the unethical consumption of garments therein? Learn how to sew. Have a unique body type such that you can never seem to find clothes that both fit and flatter you? Learn how to sew. Want the clothes you already have to last a long time even if you grow out of them or they start unraveling? Want to make use of every article of clothing in your closet until it is literally dust? LEARN HOW TO SEW. I am sure we know this but fast fashion is one of the most disastrously harmful industries on the environment and there is simply no way to purchase a well-made, durable garment that will last a long time for the low price of a shein top with free next day shipping or whatever the fuck. It is simply not possible. Taking control on the most fundamental level of the clothes that you put on your back every single day is perhaps the single most powerful thing you can do as an individual in a post-capitalist hellscape that insists that cheap clothes come at the price of slave labor. Shop second hand. Alter your clothes. Make garments from scratch and delight in the feeling you get when someone asks you where you got your pants. Learn how to sew.
