Hi , I have just joined this group , i am doing a nightclass course on dressmaking , have done five classes so far out of ten on the course and Im making a pair of mens knee length shorts on the course. The reason im doing the course is because well I,ve never been comfortable in the trousers available for men in shops , so I came up with the idea to make my own , you see I think the trousers being sold for men are being made for mannequins without regard to the fact that a human male is shaped differently than a mannequinn, and here in western countries there is no other option for men other than trousers because of the influence of borgeoise industrialists in the nineteenth century who brought strict dress codes for males into this society and this is now inbuilt into the fabric of society. When I first signed onto this course I was laughed at by the organisers of the course, I presume because of my gender , and the first night of the course the women doing the class laughhed at me, I wonder what would happen do you think if a woman went to do a course in woodwork and she was ridiculed by the men an the course in the way i am being ridiculed for doing a dressmaking course , you see Im doing this course because there is no nightclasses in tailering , see this is my only option to learn to sew.
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16 years ago