> buying a sewing machine and making your own clothing But why stop there?! Cultivate your own cotton, make your own cloth. Mine and smelt your own iron. Cut t

> buying a sewing machine and making your own clothing But why stop there?! Cultivate your own cotton, make your own cloth. Mine and smelt your own iron. Cut the woods and build your tools, then build your sewing needles from scratch. Funny enough during communism here it was close to impossible to find modern sewing machines - they were the product of the evil capitalist countries, of course. So the old foot-operated Singers were selling at quite the premium. And yes, we did walk quite a lot - car production and gas distribution in a planned economy meant tens of years on waiting lists.