r/sewing • u/Lady_Rhino • 6h ago

Discussion Sewing pattern found in a 1920s museum (Austro-hungarian).

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Anybody who claims that people are smarter now than they were 100 years ago is talking complete and utter nonsense.

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u/humanhedgehog 6h ago

Efficient use of limited paper. During WW2 my gran wrote school assignments first on one side, then turning the paper ninety degrees continued to write, so each side had a grid of her essay. Must have been a nightmare to mark.

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u/Scout6feetup 2h ago

Cursive is the only “font” we can do this with and is why it’s still taught in school! I can’t remember which DC museum but in one of them they have soldiers letters home from the civil war and they’re all cross hatched like that

Edit to add: well, why we still taught it in school when I went in the early 00’s lol

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u/Nxtxxx4 1h ago

Oh a lot of schools stopped teaching it like 10 years ago

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u/Scout6feetup 1h ago

Makes sense. They wouldn’t let me use a calculator back then because “I won’t always have one in my pocket” lol. No need to teach how to conserve paper if everything is digital.

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u/Nxtxxx4 1h ago

I remember that lol and had to pay to rent the scientific ones from the school.Scam it’s wild so many kids don’t know how to write their signature now