Credulous Dressmaker

[nellorat]

As you know, Bob, for at least a couple of years now, I've paid  a woman for made-to-measure clothing from the patterns, fabric, and notions I buy, almost all online. She's very good and pretty reasonable; in fact, when she moved to Texas, I continued sending her material for new clothes. It doesn't matter much that the patterns are so similar,

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[kalimac]

Does she refuse to work with blended fabrics?

[supergee]

Good question.

[nellorat]

I actually think the situation might be better if she were a Biblical literalist. For instance, she won't sew a top with Marvel superhero fabric, because Spiderman's web-shooting gesture is the sign of the devil. That's not Biblical literalism; it's Gullible-YouTube-Watcher Manichaeism

[apostle_of_eris]

I actually saw a real example once.
There's a Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose. It turns out to be a very nice amateur museum of Egyptology. There's a small display of fabric swatches, and one is white linen with a red stripe of wool along the edge. It really blew me away, since I'd never imagined I might encounter that exact sort of prohibited fabric.

[apostle_of_eris]

With only moderate poetic license, I call it "thinking with their kidneys", since that's where the adrenal glands are.
I am hag-ridden by the simple concept that way too many people have never learned that there are differences between what their brains tell them and what their glands tell them. Life is so flooded with examples that I can have trouble moving on to other ideas, since that one is so frequently in my face.
Even the most simple numeracy . . . if it weren't unusual, it wouldn't be "news", so if it's "news", it's probably nothing to worry about.
aargh