Talked to a seamstress at a craft fair who changed how I see closures

I was at a small craft fair in Eugene last Saturday, looking at vintage dresses. This older seamstress running the booth noticed me admiring a 1940s coat and said, 'buttons are just the handshake, the real trick is in the buttonhole.' She showed me how she does bound buttonholes with just a scrap of silk and it hit me different. I've been designing the same four ways to close a garment for years, now I'm trying to draft something with a hidden toggle closure. Has anyone else had a random vendor totally flip your process?

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sean_walker4526d ago

You ever notice how the thing you think is the main deal is really just the setup for the real work? It's like when I'm fixing a bike chain and I spend all this time on the links but it's really the tension of the whole system that makes it work or not. That seamstress tapped into something bigger - we all focus on the flashy part, the buttons or the zipper or whatever, but the quiet part behind it is what holds everything together. It's the same way with how we solve problems at work or even how we talk to people. The handshake is just the start, the real stuff is in the follow through.

the_sean26d ago

Yeah man totally, I had the same thing rebuilding an old engine where the pistons were fine but the timing was everything.

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