Vintage clothing patterns and a need to be bitchy

My mother at one point in her life was a high-school home-economics teacher. My older sisters, therefore, learned to sew. They had as much choice in the matter as young Joseph Ratzinger had in joining the Hitler Youth. Clothing patterns were part of the domestic landscape when I was young, which is why I was so delighted with Threadbared, a site born from "a love of all things vintage and all things snarky."