Sewing skills and Senior Citizens
Many senior citizens, especially ladies, can sew as a part of tailoring
or dress making. Though tailors, surgeons and cobblers can sew, their purposes
and skills vary. All sewing is not the same. Cobblers cannot boast they can sew
your heart and make you healthy. Nor can a surgeon equally produce neat dresses
like a tailor. This variation, though
sewing is the connecting thread among all these professions, made me think of
other professions where sewing skills are required.
Before branching to that
discussion let me look at the elderly. Their skills may have become blunt
because of poor eyesight or shaky hands. Or loss of power in their legs may
hinder their output, if they are sewing using a tailoring machine. Sewing among
seniors as a hobby is fine but as a livelihood is drudgery and unwelcome. Just as there are free tailoring classes for
poor women to get a good job, are there similar opportunities for seniors? No,
none that I know of.
I don’t know why, most of the
tailors I have had long association with for getting clothes stitched have been
old. In my school days I remember hanging around one old tailor’s shop on the
eve of Deepavali to get our new dresses. Couple of years ago our family tailor,
an old man, died and I had to search for a replacement. The one I found near
our colony is a fabric mender (alteration expert) too and he is also old.
A list of professions in
which sewing skills are needed in varying measure is given below:
Upholsterer
Keep guessing what these
professionals are involved in until my next part comes out describing each! In
case you get stuck up or are in a hurry, remember these are hyperlinks leading
to Wikipedia!
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