Desmond Dekker Quotes

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

My father was a dress cutter, and my mother was a tailoress, so I was brought up to appreciate a good frock.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

I'd rather not be a roofer.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.

I'm not at my best when I'm not working - I'm certainly not at my happiest. Acting will always be my first love.

I consider reading to be part of my job.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

I'm into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.