The fabric still contains the hours of the lives, those of the farmers and shepherds and chemists and factory workers and truckers and salespeople and the first purchasers, the givers-away, who were probably woman who sewed.” Somewhere on a sewing blog someone wrote of making new garments from existing ones: 'use every part of the garment' and 'each garment holds in it hours of a garment worker's life.'. “Wikipedia says the sewing machine reduced average garment construction time from 14 hours to 2 hours.
