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Men create garments, discover
savings, relaxation of sewing
By Connie Sue Gaskill . :
"Men are going crazy sewing nowadays,"
according to a saleswoman, from a local store's
sewing department.
Especially popular with men are
jacket-making kits and ho-snag fabrics that have
garbadine finishes; she added.
Just like women, men are discovering the
benefits and pleasures of sewing: savings,
relaxation and the satisfaction gained from
creating unique garments, she added.
"My wife and I hardly ever buy anything
ready made," said Ray Stemert of the State
.Dept. of Education. "It's just too
expensive and less fun. Sewing became our
family project."
Steinert took a clothing construction course
at the South Eastern Nebraska Technical
Community College. "Traveling a lot, every so
often something will rip-and at these times it's
to every man's advantage to know how to sew.
"In my clothing construction course we
learned to alter patterns. Not long ago I made
four different shirts from the same
pattern each with different necklines or
cuffs," Steinert said.
A clerk in the sewing department of another
local store said, "I can easily make myself a
polyester dress for $10. She recommended
McCalls and Simplicity patterns for beginners
and the budget conscious.
"Not only are they easier to construct, but
less expensive than Vogue or Butterick," she
said. She also suggested not using cotton
materials because their price has skyrocketed.
Persons should buy cotton blends instead, she
added.
Buttons sometimes are a major expense, she
. said. Many button manufacturers package only
three on a card.
"You always need four," she said, "which is
especially annoying if they are fad buttons that
range to $1.20 per card."
She was referring to small, handpainted
buttons and the plastic ones molded into fruit
shapes.
Most sewing clerks interviewed advised
budget conscious seamsters to shop around.
Compare fabric materials, consider the care that
goes into them and know what you want before
you begin shopping, they recommend. .
"And when you do shop," one clerk said,
"carefully follow the pattern guide to buy the
correct amount of material. Shorter people will
need less fabric than the pattern requires."
"If I could tell - people one thing about
sewing, it would be this," said Sharon Waldo, a
sewing instructor at South Eastern Nebraska
Technical Community College, "It's not
something one learns over night it takes
practice. This seems like a hard concept for
people to understand until . they pick out a
Vogue pattern, and then go home and cry in
frustration over it. .
"One must begin with the basic
techniques," Waldo advised. "If ha learns them
thoroughly, he will find they will apply to any
and all sewing." .
In the past three years at the technical
college, four or five men have enrolled in the
sewing courses taught, Waldo said.
"However, even though not as many men as
we'd like frequent our classes, sewing for men is
very popular," she continued, "A gift of a
jacket or a pair of trousers is a delight to any
husband or boyfriend that has already shopped
around and knows the prices."
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