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Not yet convinced that you should give up precious retail therapy for a stint with a sewing machine? Check out the pros and cons:
| SHOPPING | SEWING |
| Leafing through Vogue for ideas. | Leafing through Vogue Patterns for ideas. |
| Instant gratification. | Creative satisfaction. |
| Purchase rashly. | Haberdashery. |
| Lemming-like urge for the latest look. | Hemming. |
| Trailing hems and bulging zips. | Tailored and a perfect fit. |
| Consumer Rights and the Sale of Goods Act. | Blaming your tools. |
| Sore feet and aching limbs from a hard day. | Pins and needles |
| pounding the high street | |
| Flexing your plastic. | Threading elastic. |
| Sex and Shopping novels. | Sewing World and Crochet Monthly |
| Shop `til you drop. | It's curtains. |