okay maybe i am a big dork. maybe i am missing out on the inherent patriarachal attitude in the ad. however let me just say that the year i got my singer for christmas was one of my best ever. i love my sewing maching and i would not have settled for anything less than a singer.
patriarchy schmachriarchyscott52760August 2 2007, 10:56:28 UTC
Heck, I was just practicing on the 'insert image' move for a community I belong to where old ads are posted. I forgot to remove it. But I wasn't making a feminist statement. At least, not intentionally.
If I could sew this would be a fine present. Back before dirt, when I went to junior high (that's what is now called middle school was called then)female students took Home Ec (sewing and cooking) and male students took Shop. Ever the handiest of future homemakers, I nearly failed in Home Ec...and I was actually working harder than I'd ever worked in a class before. I managed in one day to bust TWO bobbin units, the first on my mom's Singer and the second on my grandma's machine.
I love the quality of Singers, especially the heavy old ones. And Singers are what collectors and sewers want. But I don't want one...I think that if ever I tried sewing now the machine just might burst into flames!
Re: patriarchy schmachriarchylavender_eveAugust 3 2007, 10:48:44 UTC
hehe i went to junior high, are you impying i'm old? giggles.
i loved Home Ec. i would go to the classroom during lunch to add lace to my pillows and work on my embroidery. i drove my mother the feminist hippie crazy. she still doesn't understand the pride that goes into making something and then wearing it.
i fell in love with singer sewing machines when my grandma taught me how to sew on her old push pedal one. she wouldn't let me use her new electric one since i might break it. she bought that new lectric singer back in '79 and still uses it to this day. how could i settle for anything less?
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If I could sew this would be a fine present. Back before dirt, when I went to junior high (that's what is now called middle school was called then)female students took Home Ec (sewing and cooking) and male students took Shop. Ever the handiest of future homemakers, I nearly failed in Home Ec...and I was actually working harder than I'd ever worked in a class before. I managed in one day to bust TWO bobbin units, the first on my mom's Singer and the second on my grandma's machine.
I love the quality of Singers, especially the heavy old ones. And Singers are what collectors and sewers want. But I don't want one...I think that if ever I tried sewing now the machine just might burst into flames!
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i loved Home Ec. i would go to the classroom during lunch to add lace to my pillows and work on my embroidery. i drove my mother the feminist hippie crazy. she still doesn't understand the pride that goes into making something and then wearing it.
i fell in love with singer sewing machines when my grandma taught me how to sew on her old push pedal one. she wouldn't let me use her new electric one since i might break it. she bought that new lectric singer back in '79 and still uses it to this day. how could i settle for anything less?
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