Was going to add this on to comment, but it’s a separate idea.
Does anyone know of trad women or any women willing and able to come to trad chapels to give free or low cost sewing lessons for the girls and women? If they really knew how to sew, I think trad women would dress more modestly than at present. Nobody, or almost nobody, young women especially, wants to look like a frumpy housewife dressed to scrub the bathroom floor.
(The long, loose denim jumper is fine for that purpose, but who goes to Mass or into town in it? Even those who seldom go out want to look well. Husbands, I think, like to be greeted by a wife who takes care to spruce herself up before Rosary and dinner. IMO, men who do manual labor who arrive dirty and sweaty should also wash up and change clothes.)
A woman who can sew with skill and ease will save money and see to it she is modestly and attractively attired. She can pass the skill on to her daughters and make clothes for them instead of making discouraging, stressful trips to the stores or have to mail back the clothes ordered online. The men and boys, also, can benefit from home sewing. Men’s clothing is generally not as problematic as for women and girls, but too often, otherwise good clothing ends up in the bin for want of knowing how to remove and replace a pants zipper or fix a torn collar. This is all assuming the woman and maybe older daughters have the time to learn and then to sew. It’s not a skill acquired overnight or by taking an evening class once a week for three months. If a woman has to work outside the home, or from home at a paying job, full time, even half time, there won’t be much time for sewing. It’s a time consuming activity, even when mastered. But some trads can at least make a start.
(A half-serious note! If some men are so adamant about women’s attire being up to a standard commercially unavailable or unaffordable, perhaps they, too, can learn to sew. After all, men are tailors, and in the past, did jobs that required some form of skilled sewing! Shoemakers, fishermen, sailors, tent makers, upholsterers, etc. St. Paul and St. Peter surely knew how to sew! Tents, nets, and sails!)
I do know a place where a woman can get modest and fashionable clothes made to order. The drawbacks are cost and location. You have to go to Brooklyn, NY for your fittings, and the average dress price is $350-$450. That was in 2015. A woman from my workplace had a custom made dress made for her son’s wedding. She paid about $800. All the dresses available commercially in her size, very petite, were either obviously for little girls or they were slutty. The few modest dresses came in black only, traditional mourning for funerals! There were two seamstresses, a mother and daughter, in a basement with a sign in Yiddish, but it wasn’t actually Yiddish. It was English written right to left with Hebrew (Yiddish) characters! I knew about the place because there’s a long traffic light right next to it at which I’ve been stuck a few times. I amused myself by trying to sound out the various writing on signs. It’s a Hasidic way of keeping separate from the goyim. But if a goy is smart enough to figure it out, they’ll gladly take your money! Probably they’d set the limit at making things specifically Catholic or nαzι! And that’s their right, just like the “Christian” couple in the bakery who refused to make the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ wedding cake.
Maybe Catholics could even open their own business, with the signs in Latin script!
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