Teaching young women how to sew is an excellent idea. It should be a required subject in every girl’s school especially when we realize how the economy has taken such a nose dive. It is important for young women and future mothers to know how to create their own clothing and that of their children or to know how to take an article of clothing and make the appropriate changes to make it useful and either tznius, age appropriate or wearable whatever the case may be. Why pay for designer clothes at ridiculous prices? Why wear what everyone else is wearing just to conform when you have the freedom to create what YOU like with your own twist, or buy something at a ridiculously low price and turn it into something fabulous? Why not take an amazing sweater and add a contrast fabric to turn it into a maternity top, or take a great skirt and add a panel to use it for maternity? When you know how to sew you can make magic. You can buy an inexpensive piece of fabric and turn it into the most adorable matching outfits for your kids without breaking the bank.
Do you know that you can buy a dress that is a bit short cut it by the thigh, add a contrasting fabric panel and add six inches to it, meanwhile you just made a striped dress that looks like it was the style to begin with. Many dressmakers come up with great ideas like adding a beaded sleeve and belt to make a jumper into a dress, or adding another layer under a dress to add length, or making a dress a little shorter and adding a layer under or adding appliques or flowers to cover up a rip, a tear or an untzniusdik opening if you don’t want to use a shell underneath. If you know how to sew you can do magic to any garment. Why should you spend and invest huge amounts of money for maternity clothes you don’t even like and are not flattering just because you don’t want to walk out in a garbage bag or you don’t want people to speak about you like those women that are being spoken about here? Every single high school girl, even middle school girl should learn how to sew. By the time a girl is 16 she should be able to sew her own clothes.