After my recent search for navy blue track pants failed to find anything suitable I headed out to the Spotlight sale and scored three metres of navy blue polar fleece for the princely sum of $12. And since the cold weather is already making its presence known I decided to whip the first pair of pants up this afternoon so we’re not caught short by early frost.
I couldn’t help but reflect on a story my mother told me when I was six while she made me a new party dress. She said that she used to be quite embarrassed to wear home-made clothes to school because it showed that they were poor. It’s ironic. In these modern times my daughter is proud to wear clothes made by me because it means I spent time making them for her. In today’s time-poor society, that’s quite a measure of wealth, even amongst five-year-olds.
Home made clothes are often not much cheaper - or not even remotely cheaper - than bought clothes these days. Especially as the parent who makes them is still usually the mother, and her time is worth $$$ these days too!
ReplyDeleteToo true. Certainly with my baby quilts they cost about $70 in materials and take about six hours to make. Or you can score some cheapie version for about $20 (mind you, where's the love? Are we putting a price on that???)
ReplyDeleteAs for Charlotte's trackies, they were only about $3 to make. Unless you factor in my hourly rate and then it was about 15 times that.