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Barbarella wrote:
and I need to model them and take photos for my art page but idk how to model them without it being a full on crotch shot - since its a crotch mend lol

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do you fix things or just replace them?

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Raquelle wrote:
I really like the look
so fun

i’m a fan of fixing things too instead of buying new
because i have quite an expensive taste
even though i thrift most of my stuff
i get attached too!

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kagura wrote:
very nice
yes i like to fix alwayss

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MissLondon wrote:
If it can’t be “repaired” with
a safety pin or camouflaged with accessories
it’s replaced

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Rotte wrote:
When it comes to clothes, they usually get replaced. Usually it's the thighs that go first and i don't wanna risk having my thighs out somewhere, if my fix don't hold. if it's a single hole in a shirt or tshirt, i just sow it together.

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Limbs wrote:
i've started mending the crotch on my jeans as well because i have to replace them so often otherwise. i do usually fix before replacing other things as well yes

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Barbarella wrote:
if I love it, I fix it

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Barbarella wrote:

MissLondon wrote:
If it can’t be “repaired” with
a safety pin or camouflaged with accessories
it’s replaced

reminds me of a passage from The Story of Mary MacLane

"When certain of my skirts need sewing, they don’t get sewed. I simply pin the rents in them together and it lasts as long or longer than if I had seated myself in my stiff-backed chair with a needle and thread and mended them—like a sensible girl. (I hate a sensible girl.)
Though I have never yet hurriedly pinned up a torn flounce or several inches of skirt-binding without saying softly to myself, using a trite, expressive phrase, “Certainly, it’s a hell of a way to do.” Still I never take a needle and mend my garments. I couldn’t, anyway. I never learned to sew, and I don’t intend ever to learn. It reminds me too much of a constipated dressmaker."

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ouch wrote:
I don't fix stuff but I don't replace them either
I just continue wearing or throw them in the trash

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Alam wrote:

ouch wrote:
I don't fix stuff but I don't replace them either
I just continue wearing or throw them in the trash

Same. I tell myself I'll fix them eventually but I never do. My favourite shirt has a hole in the elbow, like a big one. It had it when I found it and I've been saying I'll patch it up but I just keep wearing it with the sleeves rolled up.

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ouch wrote:

Alam wrote:

ouch wrote:
I don't fix stuff but I don't replace them either
I just continue wearing or throw them in the trash

Same. I tell myself I'll fix them eventually but I never do. My favourite shirt has a hole in the elbow, like a big one. It had it when I found it and I've been saying I'll patch it up but I just keep wearing it with the sleeves rolled up.

I have a pair of pants w hole on the inner thigh, but tbh idc as long as its not just straight view to the genitals lmfao

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MissLondon wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

MissLondon wrote:
If it can’t be “repaired” with
a safety pin or camouflaged with accessories
it’s replaced

reminds me of a passage from The Story of Mary MacLane

"When certain of my skirts need sewing, they don’t get sewed. I simply pin the rents in them together and it lasts as long or longer than if I had seated myself in my stiff-backed chair with a needle and thread and mended them—like a sensible girl. (I hate a sensible girl.)
Though I have never yet hurriedly pinned up a torn flounce or several inches of skirt-binding without saying softly to myself, using a trite, expressive phrase, “Certainly, it’s a hell of a way to do.” Still I never take a needle and mend my garments. I couldn’t, anyway. I never learned to sew, and I don’t intend ever to learn. It reminds me too much of a constipated dressmaker."

I don’t hem either
if something is too long
and I can’t have it tailored in time
magic tape to the rescue 😂🤷🏾‍♀️

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Barbarella wrote:

MissLondon wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

MissLondon wrote:
If it can’t be “repaired” with
a safety pin or camouflaged with accessories
it’s replaced

reminds me of a passage from The Story of Mary MacLane

"When certain of my skirts need sewing, they don’t get sewed. I simply pin the rents in them together and it lasts as long or longer than if I had seated myself in my stiff-backed chair with a needle and thread and mended them—like a sensible girl. (I hate a sensible girl.)
Though I have never yet hurriedly pinned up a torn flounce or several inches of skirt-binding without saying softly to myself, using a trite, expressive phrase, “Certainly, it’s a hell of a way to do.” Still I never take a needle and mend my garments. I couldn’t, anyway. I never learned to sew, and I don’t intend ever to learn. It reminds me too much of a constipated dressmaker."

I don’t hem either
if something is too long
and I can’t have it tailored in time
magic tape to the rescue 😂🤷🏾‍♀️

See and clothes are so cheap now that its actually more cost effective for someone to just replace something, or cut it short, than to pay someone like me to fix it