Fabric Stores

This is a cross-post from Autistic Stuff for Autistic People, another Fox And Raven Media podcast.

We’ve got a cozy cluster of correspondence and costuming conundrums to contemplate this week.

From home repairs to entirely tailored outfits, the power of not letting capitalism tell you what you get to look like cannot be overstated. TR even wrote a song about it, and today we’re going to talk about how the song came into existence and the impact that it had.

Capitalism’s attempt to standardize the human body into readily usable patterns might not have been successful, but it has given us ample fodder to podcast about.

Iron is a vital part of machinery of all sorts, so today we’re going to examine its role in sewing machine history. Not only was it used to make the machines themselves, its physical properties drove the Singer company to push new horizons in global manufacturing.