People who mend clothes: at what point do you give up on fixing a garment and repurpose it for cleaning rags or scrap fabric?
I ask because I end up having to mend a lot of clothes (especially my boyfriend's; he's pretty rough on his clothes) multiple times a year. It's not my stitches failing, it's the actual fabric wearing to basically paper thickness all over.
I know it's mostly that recently made clothes are made with poor quality materials that hardly last two months of wear and while I don't mind mending every so often, it's frustrating when the fabric shreds a centimeter over from the old mend. I'm not sure when to just rage quit mending the damn rags manufacturers pass off as clothes these days. I'm noticing it's particularly clothes bought within the last five years or so. Clothes purchased before about that time seem to hold up for longer.
@SmolSelkie Yes!! What the heck! I recently replaced my work pants & within only a couple weeks they are already starting to have wear lines where my wallet / phone sit in my pockets.
@nash I've really been wanting to get into making my own clothes but have been dragging my feet on it because of the big skill curve from slapping stuff together that kinda looks passable to actually making stuff that fits -well-. 🫠
@SmolSelkie@nash Do it! There are loads of free sewing patterns out there made for beginners. Check out freesewing.org for patterns which can be adjusted to measure before you print them out. You enter the measurements, and the website assists the pattern to fit.
All the patterns there are free, and do a great job of covering basics and beyond. There are also some commercial sites which offer this.
I mean, you're already wearing ready-to-wear. Things can only get better.
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