A couple of weeks ago I bought a great pair of shorts from a charity shop, then wore them for the first time and immediately realised why someone donated them in the first place.
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I decided it would be easier to sew the new pockets to the existing ones by hand, so this is my accountability thread to make sure I actually do that before it gets too cold to wear them. But yes, Exeter Library's sewing machine service: highly recommended. Creepy men: do not recommend.
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A couple of weeks ago I bought a great pair of shorts from a charity shop, then wore them for the first time and immediately realised why someone donated them in the first place.
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@afewbugs Argh, the fake tiny pockets!
I have done similar pocket surgery on jeans, and while it sucks that we have to make our own pockets, it's so satisfying when they're done.
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@afewbugs Love your flo mask! So pretty!
@ConnyChiwa thank you! The front just snaps off so is very easy to paint - I sprayed it with primer and used acrylic paint pens
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@Betty @jgrg @NilaJones came up with a plausible explanation in another branch of this thread https://zeroes.ca/@NilaJones/116665018097227860
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@afewbugs Also, yes, an alarming number of men are creepy. It's hard to believe the scale of it until you start experiencing it.
On men being creepy: No need to belief, the data proofs it. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-not-safe-around-men
And on a more happy note: great work on the pockets! I never got into sewing (or knitting) as the learning curve has always felt quite steep to me.
But looks like one of those things that is both useful and very satisfying.
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@ConnyChiwa thank you! The front just snaps off so is very easy to paint - I sprayed it with primer and used acrylic paint pens
@afewbugs Great job! I've seen decorated ones before but yours is particularly nice.
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@Su_G yes he looked to be in his fifties or sixties, which was ample time on this planet to have done a bit of research if he genuinely wanted to learn to sew rather than, say, spotting a target woman on her own and spontaneously developing an interest in whatever she was doing to give him an excuse to hassle her
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Also it's 2026, women want pockets enough to make them ourselves FFS. Clothing companies take note
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@afewbugs Argh, the fake tiny pockets!
I have done similar pocket surgery on jeans, and while it sucks that we have to make our own pockets, it's so satisfying when they're done.
@Gulleko @afewbugs
It seems to be an institutional bias / misogyny! Why wouldn't women (all of them inc trans) want regular sized pockets?
Is it so, they have to carry things & as such have to be "helped" w doors etc?
Or is it so, that because they are carrying things they're then "vulnerable" to predators?
Good Krap almighty! Do we really need a campaign to fix an issue that should not fucking exist? Whats wrong w the clothing mnfrs?
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@Gulleko @afewbugs
It seems to be an institutional bias / misogyny! Why wouldn't women (all of them inc trans) want regular sized pockets?
Is it so, they have to carry things & as such have to be "helped" w doors etc?
Or is it so, that because they are carrying things they're then "vulnerable" to predators?
Good Krap almighty! Do we really need a campaign to fix an issue that should not fucking exist? Whats wrong w the clothing mnfrs?
This form of misogyny is contemptuous.@Sine_Nomine If I remember correctly, I think the original culprit was the purse becoming fashionable. Women don't need pockets, they have purses!
And then the fashion industry has just stayed in that mindset because of patriarchy bullshit.Plus smaller pockets means less fabric used, which means they can save money on fabric, and fast fashion will gladly cut every corner to save a few pennies per garment.
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On men being creepy: No need to belief, the data proofs it. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-not-safe-around-men
And on a more happy note: great work on the pockets! I never got into sewing (or knitting) as the learning curve has always felt quite steep to me.
But looks like one of those things that is both useful and very satisfying.
@avuko @vikki meanwhile this recent case in the UK shows just how much we value teenage boys vs teenage girls
Teenage boys avoid jail after rape and sexual assault of girls in north-east England
Exclusive: Calls for urgent change after rehabilitation orders and โlaughableโ ยฃ26 in court fees in three separate cases
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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A couple of weeks ago I bought a great pair of shorts from a charity shop, then wore them for the first time and immediately realised why someone donated them in the first place.
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Pockets big enough to hold a wine bottle...
A moment that changed me: I began wearing skirts with pockets big enough to hold a wine bottle
Sick of impractical or nonexistent pockets on womenโs clothes, I started making my own historical garments. Now I feel liberated, chat to strangers โ and never lose my belongings
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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On men being creepy: No need to belief, the data proofs it. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-not-safe-around-men
And on a more happy note: great work on the pockets! I never got into sewing (or knitting) as the learning curve has always felt quite steep to me.
But looks like one of those things that is both useful and very satisfying.
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On men being creepy: No need to belief, the data proofs it. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-not-safe-around-men
And on a more happy note: great work on the pockets! I never got into sewing (or knitting) as the learning curve has always felt quite steep to me.
But looks like one of those things that is both useful and very satisfying.
@avuko @afewbugs as Iโve repeatedly pointed out. In the time the government sits on the terrible guidance - the so called trans toilet ban - 80,000* rapes will happen. Overwhelmingly by men. Overwhelmingly not in toilets. Not by trans people.
Women wonโt be any safer. Men remain the problem in the absolute majority and overwhelmingly so. Creepy is the โbetterโ end of the horror of an alarming number of men.
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The only part of the experience that wasn't great was when a man interrupted me in the middle of the first pocket and asked me to teach him how to use a sewing machine, which is the sort of thing that unfortunately happens all too frequently while Being A Woman In Public. I waved the threading instruction sheet at him, told him he was in a library and suggested he get a book, told him to look for YouTube videos and suggested he ask any older female relatives he might have because there was a good chance they might know. He responded by asking if I would come back next Saturday and he would pay me to teach him.
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@afewbugs @CiaraNi Yeah sewing and stereotypes, I never got it. I've been sewing my own tents, sleeping bags, rucksacks, bike bags since I was a school kid unable to afford new.
I worked a summer (as a designer) in a outdoor goods factory. When the machinists went home in the evening I would make my own stuff. Industrial machines for the win: knee-operated foot-lifts and some had foot-operated reverse; you never had to take your hand away from the material.
Excellent results Jules.
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@afewbugs @CiaraNi Yeah sewing and stereotypes, I never got it. I've been sewing my own tents, sleeping bags, rucksacks, bike bags since I was a school kid unable to afford new.
I worked a summer (as a designer) in a outdoor goods factory. When the machinists went home in the evening I would make my own stuff. Industrial machines for the win: knee-operated foot-lifts and some had foot-operated reverse; you never had to take your hand away from the material.
Excellent results Jules.
@baoigheallain @CiaraNi I briefly worked in a hospital that had a prosthetics manufacturing workshop in the basement with some extremely cool custom sewing machines for weird materials like foam and silicone, and am still disappointed I never got a proper chance to get a look at them.
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@baoigheallain @CiaraNi I briefly worked in a hospital that had a prosthetics manufacturing workshop in the basement with some extremely cool custom sewing machines for weird materials like foam and silicone, and am still disappointed I never got a proper chance to get a look at them.
@afewbugs @CiaraNi Someone I once knew in the climbing scene did that. He made all sorts of little gadgets for us in their workshop. I still have one of his chock tockers (like this: https://www.alpinetrek.co.uk/dmm-nutbuster-nut-removal-tool/ )
