Growing up in an exceptionally mediocre family, Mom made all our clothing, curtains, bedding by sewing after a full day at work doing accounting. Dad grew vegetables, raised chickens with variety of fruit trees on a small 800 meter squared including house consisting 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, lounge, kitchen, dining room, housing 4 children and parents. Made ends meet yet never doing without!
Lesson in life knowing it is never easy, with many much poorer residing in a third world country. One Sunday school dress, school uniform, garden shorts and shirts, pajamas all made by Mom. Cotton was the answer then to this day, no clothing ever purchased on a whim, except first year of working building a cupboard up that lasted, mostly sewed on the old Singer tread-wheel machine.
Where has all natural fabric gone, hessian bags for vegetables, cotton or wool clothing, glass bottles? Only the rich could afford tweed or satin, yet now the world has gone crazy with polyester, nylon all fabrics where the skin does not breath nor does it last.
Smiling in agreement the world needs to rethink, repurpose we cannot sustain a healthy planet if we don't start in the home.
RE: Food for thought: Foot prints (part one)