#sewing factory

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(throwback) SHINee for Singles Korea December 2016 issue

[muffinlance]

Isopuppy's got legs for DAYS

Just need to get the top carapace on and write up the tutorial, and y'all can make your own Good Dog.

My baby spent most of the morning crawl-chasing me around, desperately pointing at the pupper to be allowed a hug (which she was finally granted just before nap time when I got the back seam closed, and she hugged it So Hard, then gummed those antennae real good). Toddler is demanding he be allowed to sleep with it tonight. So isopups are VERY snugglable, is what I'm saying.

[barksbog]

so i know i´m being communist on main here but i do think that even small businesses run by artists need to do their best to not exploit other peoples labor. I know how hard it is to source every material ethically but i see more and more people getting labor intensive things like clothes, bags, plushies, ect. made in factories. it worries me how untransparent a lot stores and kickstarters are about the conditions in the factories that produce their products. especially when those factories are located in countries with poor labor rights.

of course you can go ahead and tell me there is no ethical consumption under capitalism and that even someone who handmakes everything and does their best still needs to f.e. buy materials that were produced in unknown conditions BUT

i think that the moment you actively are in control over production you are responsible for making sure it is done in a way that doesn´t make you profit from the exploitation of other people.

[muse-write]

Spending the past few days sewing has weirdly reminded me of my childhood love for the American Girl doll Samantha and her friendship with Nellie. I read most of the books and probably watched the movie a hundred times.

[mycroftrh]

The more I sew the more I understand why modern factory-made fabric things have such a short shelf life

My sheets were made with such screwy thread tension that if the thread in the seam breaks anywhere the whole thing will come instantly undone

My shorts have never heard of a backstitch

This shirt’s using a nonflexible stitch on extremely stretchy fabric

The cape that was the first clothing I made was hand-sewed with barely any idea what I was doing and will last longer than the fifty dollar cape I just bought. The very first thing I machine-sewed was alterations in a shirt and my alterations could last years longer than the shirt itself. Commercial fabric stuff is made without the basic things you learn on sewing day one

No wonder pre-industrial clothes could get passed down through generations with five kids per generation! They were made with actual skill and time and care!

I wear clothes until they literally fall apart, which they do, because fast fashion really isn’t on consumers, it really is on “clothes made this cheaply are made really hecking badly” (even when they’re sold expensively)

I don’t really have a point here it’s just interesting to see how very poorly the average modern fabric product is made and to get now why fabric products from earlier periods are so insanely much more durable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[dumbbitchhour]

went for a goodbye bear with this audiologist las and doctor from work yesterday and got a full on tutorial how to sew up a Glasgow smile with pictures and illustrations 👍

[darkmoonseance]

honest to god these days going to work feels like a break and socializing is when I have to clock in

[innanzituttoticalmi]

via castiglioni, via orfeo, and every other alley in between via castiglioni and via santo stefano

[dubiousdisco]

oh yikes so bolsonaro tried to kill off the amazonas people with covid and lula/alckmin is gonna kill us with poverty, i see

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(throwback) MINHO for Vogue Korea December Issue '16

[foxcassius]

this is one of those things where if i think about it for even one second i realize that it doesnt make sense bc not everyone is Me, but i genuinely think everyone should just stop buying new clothes.....i'm always like "there's no reason to and they never fit well" and then i remember store clothes Do fit some people and also some people Didnt grow up sewing and i go oh yeah nevermind

[justtryingtovibe69]

learning how garments are made and the precision and dozens of steps required in every zipper, sleeve cuff, seam, pleat…yea i already have mostly stopped shopping fast fashion years ago but i’m really really never shopping fast fashion again. (for undergarments and workout clothes idk…i’ll figure something out.) bc it’s truly impossible to fully automate this so they present it like oh clothes are made in “factories” so u feel like it’s made by machines but it’s just extremely skilled people doing all of it even if they’re aided by industrial machinery.

like if u look at what ur wearing right now, hands guided the fabric through a machine to make all of those seams. it happened in a mass production factory yes but it was made carefully by human hands, every stitch. it makes me emotional to think about it.

[recycled-cotton-knit]

I think more people on radblr should be talking about sweatshops, especially in the garment industry.

• Around 80% of sweatshop workers are women. Some employers force them to take birth control and pregnancy tests to avoid having to pay for maternity leave. Pregnant women are routinely denied sick leave to visit doctors, terminated from their contracts early, or left without any maternity leave when their short-term contracts are not renewed.

• Women are more likely than men to experience minimum wage violations. According to one study, "30 percent of the women workers in our sample experienced minimum wage violations, compared to 20 percent of the men". [Source: https://www.nelp.org/publication/broken-laws-unprotected-workers-violations-of-employment-and-labor-laws-in-americas-cities/ ]

• Indonesian women employees report that “girls in the factory are harassed by male managers. They come on to the girls, call them into their offices, whisper into their ears, touch them, bribe them with money and threaten them with firing if they don’t have sex with them.” [source: cleanclothes.org]

• "Toilet breaks are monitored, and some workers said they were flat out denied them, even when sick. The same goes for water and lunch breaks, both necessary to stay healthy when working 12+ hour days in a stuffy, overcrowded factory." 20% of women in sweatshops report experiencing sexual violence. [https://iwda.org.au/three-ways-garment-factories-violate-the-rights-of-women-and-how-its-allowed-to-happen/ ]

It's easy not to support this kind of abuse. Do not buy clothes first-hand. Only buy from thrift shops and second-hand apps, or find ethical brands and investigate where and how they make their clothing (hint: if a t-shirt costs $3, it's not ethical). Patch your old clothes. Consider learning basic sewing (it's not as difficult as it seems!)

I don't care how cheap Shein and Temu are. I don't care how much you think you need that specific Zara coat. Buying clothes directly harms women and avoiding it is a very easy way to help.

[kittlyns]

So I've got two dresses I want to hem. One I thrifted mainly so I could practice sewing on it cuz like, it's cute but if I screw it up, I won't be too upset about it.

The other is basically a dress I've been trying to find for awhile now and I finally did. Like the style, the fabric, the pattern, I got the last one on clearance and it was in my size, like everything is perfect. The only problem is the length goes down past my feet and pools on the floor. I need it to be mid to low-calf at least for it look cute on me. So it's nothing major, just a small hem and I'll be set.

But I need the perfect dress to be done soon cuz I have somewhere I'd like to wear it. But I wanted to practice on the other dress a few times (hemming it an inch or so at a time until I felt comfortable doing it) before touching this one. But idk if I'll be able to, and I really don't want my first hemming attempt to be on this dress.

So I've really gotta motivate myself to start trying. I think maybe this weekend, I'll try to get started.

[nuzzle]

The production studio at "Baby, the Stars Shine Bright" featured in an episode of Tokyo Fashion Express. Their designs typically require up to 50 sewing patterns, which is about 5 times as many as the average dress. Detailed notes on measurements and specifications are written for the sewing factory.

The sewing factory is in Ibaraki prefecture. For more than 20 years they've been sewing clothes exclusively for BTSSB. 17 people work there, most of them being veterans age 60 or over. Due to the complexity they work in teams for ironing, sewing lace and ribbons, as well as completing gathers and frills.

The manager of the factory, Sumiko Watahiki, says in an interview: "There's tons of gather, lace, and layering, which requires a lot of sewing. At first, I doubted I could do it! It was that hard. (But) I'm always impressed with the adorable designs when I see the finished products or while I work."