Chicago tailors speculate why fewer young folk want sewing jobs<br /> by [[Audrey Pachuta]] in Chicago Tribune<br /> accessed on 2026-07-22T15:20:43
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- Jul 2026
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She wishes more “homegrown” Americans would pursue the craft like her father did, but given that students no longer take high school home economics classes or learn to sew at home as they did in previous generations, their baseline skill levels are not what they used to be, she said.
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“People need to see you work,” he said, his red-framed glasses sliding down to the bridge of his nose as he focused intensely on hemming a pair of beige pants. “That’s the key in this business.”
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- Feb 2021
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Trousers should shiver on the shoe but not break. —Arnold Bennett’s tailor
A gentleman: superficially perhaps, a man who never looks as if he’d just had his hair cut.
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book; one for show (and this he will probably keep at his country house), another for use, and a third at the service of his friends. —Richard Heber
Some great examples from Geoffrey Madan's notebooks
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