Thursday, May 28, 2015

The problem here

is that our mother’s didn’t teach us to sew. So, unthinkingly we pay top dollar for everything. 
     For example, below – on your left – is a red T-shirt, “resembling the jacket of Clinton’s iconic pantsuit outfits,” as Cameron Joseph puts it in the New York Daily News.* You can get shirts like this in small, medium, large, xlarge, and xxlarge for $30 at Hillary’s new online store. You can also get hoodies, throw pillows, tumblers, mugs, onesies for your babies, all covered with cleverness and all made in America, but by someone else.
     But, its not too late: You can still make your own for less than $10, even as little as $3.50 with the kit shown on the right.


Here’s all you need (the pattern is at right): a red T-shirt, purchased at your local thrift store for $2; a Sharpie, brand new at $1.49, if you don’t already have one at home; and some white-out. You can buy this in a three-pack for under $6; OR, you can knock on the door of any lawyer’s office in town and ask the secretary if she or he has any he or she isn’t using in her desk. One of them does. If it’s clumpy, a drop or two of fingernail polish remover will take care of that. There’s someone you know you can bum that from, maybe even the lawyers secretary, if you don’t have it on hand.

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  * Read the article here.
    If you missed the point and want to add your thirty bucks (less cost of materials and labor - a buck-adn-a-half more than you can make it for, if you have to buy the Sharpie) to Goldman Sachs thirty million, you can visit the store here

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