Learning how to fix or mend clothes, appliances, household objects, car engines, and many other items that are important to our daily functioning, is not only liberating but is also an important way to exercise our common sense.
She supports the household as a seamstress, fixing old clothes on a foot-pedal Singer sewing machine.
And while it's clear they plan to continue to plow ahead with digital innovation and international expansion in order to grow their business, the heart of the turnaround plan is fixing the clothes, which lately haven't proved especially enticing.
Don't let people see you looking at your reflection or fixing your clothes or make up in public.
They'd have to change the shoes they wear, and to fix their clothes".
"When they finished what they were doing, they fixed his clothes and sent him back to class," she said.
(I know how to fix my clothes too. Knitting has its luxury follies and status-seekers, but it's essentially thrifty).
VISOKO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — When Amra Babic walks down the streets of Visoko wearing her Muslim head scarf, men sitting in outdoor cafes instantly rise from their chairs, fix their clothes and put out their cigarettes.
We may be seeing this again in a campaign under way today: a push for better morals among party members and less corruption by Mr. Hu's successor, Xi Jinping, announced on April 19 after a Politburo meeting, dubbed the "check the mirror, fix your clothes, take a bath, see the doctor" campaign.
