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Seigest @lemmy.ca

3w ago

Mended my pants

It ain't pretty but it'll hold.

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Well done

I was in JROTC in High School, and a true Command Sergent Major shamed my for not knowing how to hem my pants. I still never learned how, but he ripped me a new one.
- No point in shaming others for not having a skill. If your sergeant didn't like it they ought to have sat you down with a needle and thread and trained you themselves.
  
  He was a good man, from an era where you broke other guy's balls to let them know you liked them.
  It wasn't malicious.
- Had you known how to sew, you could have mended that rip!

I've got a pair I need to do that with. Both those back off-center loops are used far too often to hike up my pants, and both are broken on my oldest but still serviceable pair.
- Hiking these up is what did this as well. Losing some weight finally maybe.
- it's amazing how I could immediately identify which loops you are referring to and have repaired a few of my own for similar reasons.

Not dull. Rock on dude

Euripedes?
- Who else woulda ripped 'em?

Good for you!
I bought a roll of nylon thread that's so strong I can't rip it with my hands. Been using it to mend so many cheap seams and am always so proud of myself.

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