BBC Sewing Bee

[Davros]

They regularly mention the differences between male and female bodies. How has this been allowed to slip through?

AnotherSunrise are you seeing my sarcasm and raising it with your irony?
There was a lesbian in this series but she left quite early. I don't mind the hoardes of gay men, presumably they are highly represented in the home sewing community but it is noticeable! However, where are the Southerners? I don't think there's a single one this time

Joe Lycett said on HIGNFY last week that, (something like) in interests of BBC being impartial so now being a bit right wing to balance the left out, the sewing bee was full of poofers and old women. . Although it actually has a couple of young women in it this year and one straight man, it was very funny him saying it so deadpan.

On the babies in dresses aspect, my own grandfather, born on a Leicestershire farm in 1879, grew up with only one memory of his mother, who died of typhoid from contaminated well water when DGF was about 5 years old.

His memory was of being scolded for getting his petticoats muddy when he was playing in the farmyard and fell over.

When I knew him - and he was nearly 80 when I was born - he was always clad in three piece tweed suits, so clearly no harm done!

A lovely man.

I've been in thousands of meetings where 'thanks gentlemen' has been used (including one already this morning) and I'm pretty sure I'll survive.

I point it out when they do this. It's good for all the "gentlemen" to remember women can work in IT, too. Though I find saying,"Hello everyone ", "thanks everybody," tends not to offend anyone, so it requires least thought and thus is the option I tend to go for.

I know a family my age (so late 40s), where all the babies were dressed in dresses, just as their Victorian forebears had been. Though even in the '70s, they were considered odd and distinctly old-fashioned for this (so I learnt when it came up about a decade later - I don't remember it being a baby myself.)

Re poppers, — I think it’s a regional thing.

You can search online for popper shirts or bags, but get equal results searching snap shirts or bags.

Plus, ‘poppers’ has taken on an additional meaning (amyl nitrate etc) so it’s possibly falling out of use in the sewing world.

Fairie sounds like a Southerner? I missed the first few episodes so don't know where they're all from.

Yes I wondered if they decided against saying poppers for the drug reason.

Poppers? I call them snap fasteners. www.empressmills.co.uk/haberdashery/fasteners/snap-fasteners.
This company also lists something called press fasteners. Not sure whether press studs is another name for the same thing.

Come for the haberdashery terminology , stay for the feminism

I thought Farie might be southern. She sounds quite posh via Zimbabwe so could be from anywhere here