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My daughter sews, my mom taught her and then we gave her a sewing machine for Christmas a few years back.  She and my mom still go to fabric stores and buy fabric and patterns.  Patterns have gotten crazy expensive for sure.  In many cases my daughter could buy something ready-to-wear much cheaper than making it herself.  Child-labor and foreign sweatshops, I assume, are probably responsible.

But what my daughter REALLY likes to do, is buy thrifted clothes, and then cut/hem/alter/re-sew them into something she likes.  She spends almost nothing on clothes, she hates buying brand new.  She'll go to Goodwill, Salvation Army, or many even cheaper thrift stores, and find stuff she likes and knows she can alter to her preference.  I can't remember the last time we gave her money to buy clothes.

 

That's largely what my eldest does as well. There's lots of good stuff out there that can be repurposed, though it does take some patience to find it.

I wonder if there is any money to be made redoing gifted clothing items.  My wife took some of her stuff to a consignment shop in Cincy that had decent stuff.  She made a few bucks, I guess the shop was profitable.  But they didn't redo anything.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Circus Acrobat Otto Witte Crowned King of Albania? (1913)
Witte was a German citizen and circus acrobat who claimed to have impersonated his way into being crowned King of Albania in 1913—by some accounts, on August 13. According to Witte, he enjoyed the royal harem and reigned for several days before being discovered as an impostor. Though he was likely lying, his story was picked up by several publications, including Time magazine.

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1914 British Expeditionary Force led by Field Marshal John French and General Henry Wilson lands in France

1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria

1933 MLB Philadelphia A's Foxx hits for the cycle and sets a new AL record with 9 RBIs in an 11-5 win over the Indians in Cleveland

1937 Detroit Tigers score an MLB record 36 runs in a doubleheader vs. St. Louis Browns at Navin Field; win 16-1 and 20-7

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter

1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower is named commander for the invasion of North Africa

1945 V-J Day, the Empire of Japan surrenders unconditionally to the Allies, ending World War II (August 15 in Japan and other countries depending on the time zone)

1951 William Randolph Hearst,American newspaper publisher (San Francisco Examiner; Seattle Post-Intelligencer), dies at 88

1958 Cleveland Indian Vic Power steals home twice in one game

1964 LA Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after a hotel room fight with elderly Los Angeles Times sportswriter Braven Dyer

1966 Cleveland Stadium's first rock concert: The Beatles headline, and fans break through barriers and rush the stage, causing a 30-minute delay while order is restored

1980 17,000 workers strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, beginning the Solidarity movement

1982 MLB Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose's 12,365th at-bat sets a record, passing Hank Aaron

1987 Oakland's Mark McGwire sets the rookie home run record at 39 en route to 49

1988 Enzo Ferrari, Italian racing car driver and sportscar manufacturer Ferrari, dies at 90

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British Troops Are Deployed in Northern Ireland (1969)
In August 1969, tensions between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland came to a head in the predominantly-Catholic Bogside neighborhood of Londonderry. For days, fighting raged with Catholic residents on one side and police and Protestant residents on the other. On August 14, British troops were deployed to restore order. Some consider that day to be the definitive beginning of the decades-long conflict known as The Troubles.

Adolph Levitt, a Russian-born immigrant, invented the first automated doughnut machine in 1920. He called it the “Wonderful Almost Human Automatic Donut Machine.”