Life “Need a GOOD Sewer!”
posted by March 7 at 8:34 AM
onSo reads the subject line on this Craigslist post.
Just when you reconcile yourself to reading about someone’s non-good sewage experience, you realize the truth is much more special:
Looking for someone who can design and sew products for our company. We need someone ASAP and will pay on a per garment basis. Before you respond, please know you will be designing and sewing Adult Baby Clothes. If interested please contact me ASAP.
Thank you, Slog tipper Jake.
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I've got the skills, but not the time or the stomach for this little experiment in terror...
Naughty, naughty adult baby.
Thank GOD!!! I've been looking for some way to make some extra cash off of my excellent sewering skills and eye for innovative adult baby fashion design! I'll be the Vera Wang of the fetish world... Sweeeeeet.
Thanks! That's the second good laugh I've had this morning. (The first one was, when reading the paper here, I learned that there actually is a metal band here named "Festering Puke.")
Um...what exactly do adult babies WEAR that would require a "sewer" that could specialize in exactly that type of garment? A gigantic onesie?
I've seen that usage many times. How else would you spell "one who sews"? I think that's a pretty standard term for production sewing personnel.
@5: Seamstress, and, unfortunately, seamster.
I'm not a big fan of gendered job titles.
A woman who sews is a "seamstress." A man is a "seamster" or more commonly a "tailor." The word "sewer" doesn't really exist. Or at best, it's a recent neologism.
On the other hand, adult baby clothes have a long and illustrious history.
I think you were right the first time.
Hahaha, awesome. Perhaps they need adult-sized frilly dresses and bonnets? Diapers are easy, and adult footy pajamas are easy to come by and not that expensive.
A friend forwarded me this ad, which seems tempting, but...
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/m4w/597871109.html
Um, you've got "seamstress" right, but I think the male equivalent is a tailor.
@9 - THAT is my dream man. I wonder if he would pay moving expenses too...?
See what happens when society takes gender out of the equation and makes everyone a gender-bender. We don't know if we should be playing in the sewer or playing in a dress!
A tailor is not a male seamstress. It's a different set of skills.
@9
Gurl what are you waiting for?!
@10: Hmm. I'm not sure, but I think that the word tailor implies custom fitting ability, and the female equivalent job title would be dressmaker. A seamstress/seamster would maybe more be sewing from patterns.
@12: This does seem to be a botched attempt to gender neutralize a job title. I can't come up with anything that doesn't sound clunky. Uh, how about Seamer? Seamus?
I would have recommended a septic system.
Sewist?
They can have mine, but they should know it is infested with sewer snoids.
(those fuckers make me paranoid!)
A tailor makes clothes differently from a dressmaker. A tailor can be female, a dressmaker male.
It's about techniques used to make patterns and assemble clothing.
The seamster-seamstress thing just hasn't got a nice tidy gender-neutral word. But it refers only to someone who sews, not a specific type of sewer.
There.
More than anyone ever wanted to know about that!
Most folks who sew professionally these days prefer to be called stitchers. Unless they make adult baby clothes. Then they are called desperate.
Love, Jake
Hooray! I've wanted footy jammies for years! Craig's List here I come!
@16: What, no sand filter? No membrane bioreactor? How about a rotating compost tank?
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