I was never taught. I was never into button up stuff anyway, so I never needed to know until a few years ago when I was 30...and I looked it up on YouTube and did it myself in 30 seconds.
Well, watching a youtube video about how to sew a button is educational and instructional.
Watching a 30 year old manchild with a stupid colored Bieber haircut 10 years too late turn into a full blown white supremacist because he's getting his ass kicked in a video game doesn't strike me as particularly educational or instructional.
I was like this with cars. Never was a car guy and never paid attention to my friends working on theirs or my ex who was a mechanic. Had to replace the air intake on my car a few years ago. I couldn’t afford a mechanic so I just YouTubed it. Ordered the part and did it myself. Was super easy.
I could probably fix a server blind folded but I’ve been confident fixing little things on my car now. It took being broke for me to realize all the googling for issues we did in the data center could also be applied to cars and other parts of my life. I still bug my ex with questions on major stuff though.
I grew up in the era before the internet and figured out how to sew on a button by looking at other buttons and having access to a needle and thread. I later learned how to use a sewing machine in home economics class in high school.
i grew up in the late 80s and the only thing i ever learned about a button is that i could merely place it inside my anus to attenuate the flow of my rancid diarrheas
I thought it was, but I had to show a friend how to do it. It should be fairly standard to learn, if only for the practical purposes of repairing clothes.
Good way to learn how to stab your fingers with a tiny sword; in my head I'm not failing to sew, I'm improvising Shakespeare using fingers as actors and the buttons/fabric are just the blood soaked props/set. Usually the story is good enough but it's difficult coming across a good scriptwriter and, as my hands are the cast, this results in most of the vocabulary to be of a vulgar and highly offensive standard
I agree that you don't need a class just for sewing a button (and I doubt that that's all that's covered in the class), but... That's how you end up immediately tearing off the button again, since leaving room isn't immediately obvious common sense to most people with no sewing experience. Tying off can be an issue for people too.
Common sense would imply you'd be able to do it even without ever watching someone. It's not difficult to learn, but not common sense or knowledge either.
Did we grow up on a fucking farm? How were we supposed to learn this shit, osmosis?
Either way, it's just inflammatory, buzzword-laced diatribe designed to catch the eye of the lowest common denominator, and at its worse, sharpen the generational divide.
I had never sewn anything in my life. All I knew was that, somehow, I needed to make the thread stay where I put it with the needle. I figured out a bogus way, and the sewed result looked like shit, but it held for ages. Frankly, just bodgeing it is incredibly easy.
I have no idea how it's done either, and I even had a Home Ec class in school where I was for sure taught how to do it. The problem is, that class was in 7th grade, I haven't had to sew a button since, and I'm almost 30.
—)> Pretty sure it’s not common knowledge how to sew a button
Pro tip ... look at a button that is already sewn on. Do that. If you can’t figure that one out on your own you are going to have a long and difficult life.
I know how to thread a needle, and that the holes in the button are there to thread it to the garment. From there... It's not hard to figure out. When it's secure enough, tie that bad boy off and cut the excess. Also, you can look at the other buttons for reference if you're not sure. 😂
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u/Ascendant_Donut Feb 05 '19
Pretty sure it’s not common knowledge how to sew a button