Should I Keep Homeschooling This Fall? Part 5
When I was growing up, many women made their own clothes and their children’s clothes, especially their daughter’s dresses. My mother not only made her clothes and mine, she also made dresses for many others in her home-based dressmaking business.
When it was time for a new dress for me, she and I went to the fabric department in the Ashland City Five and Ten Cent Store or to Harvey’s Department Store in downtown Nashville. My favorite was my royal blue velvet Christmas dress. I still remember shopping for the real rabbit fur trim, purchased by the yard and sewn around the neck and wrists.
When a customer wanted a dress made, the lady purchased a pattern, fabric, and matching thread and brought it to our home. First, Mother cut it out on our kitchen table and sewed it together. Then the customer returned for a fitting. After she put the dress on in our living room, Mother pinned it here and there to make it fit that particular customer perfectly at the waist, hips, and under the arms. She marked the hem exactly where that year’s fashion custom dictated and marked the sleeves at the perfect length for that customer. Later the customer returned to pick up her perfectly-fitted dress.
One of the reasons that I hope you continue to homeschool this fall is so your child won’t have to receive a “one-size-fits-all” education, but one “tailor made” for him or her, an education that fits just right because God didn’t make any of us carbon copies.
Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently,
that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen
and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life;
but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.
Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb,
when the Lord said to me,
“Assemble the people to Me,
that I may let them hear My words
so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth,
and that they may teach their children.”
Deuteronomy 4:9-10