no more hand-made clothes

When I was writing on Friday about
people who like to do something and teach about it,
and people who like to do the thing,
but aren't moved to write books or "have their own website," they just want to
Do the Thing,
thinking about my friend who "out-Marthas" Martha Stewart -- she even made her own wedding gown, when she got married when she was (I think) 19 years old.

Not everyone would be up to that.

That's called knowing what you value and having the confidence to -- Do The Thing.

In Fiddler On The Roof when Motel the tailor gets a sewing machine (at long last) he's so excited -- he shows his neighbors, the other villagers, how it works and says joyfully with visage aglow, "No more hand-made clothes!"
The way he says it, it's a laugh-line, because of course from the modern perspective we know that the finest clothes in the world (haute couture) are "hand-made" --
hand-made is good...
but in early 20th century Russia, where sewing machines were new, and not plentiful, it was a situation where "modern technology" was making things easier and faster and that seemed better, at the moment, than "hand-made."

And thinking about people doing-and-teaching, or not, made me remember the movie Julie & Julia, too, because in the film "Julia Child," (played by Meryl Streep), wants to learn French cooking and then begin teaching it immediately.

"We're going to teach Americans in Paris how to cook!" she says.

For Julia Child, learning passed straight through to teaching...

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