Zabobons of tailors

If the thread gets confused when basting, the product will be successful and the customer will like it.

A bad customer will not lead to a good one.

To learn how to sew loops, sew a hundred loops. One hundred and one will be good.

It is easy to sew on good people with a good character. Everything fits really well on such, even if the figure is complex.

The machine loves the master's hands. Don't let anyone sew on your sewing machine. This is for breakdowns and failures.

It's hard to sew on losers and spoiled ones. They, even if the thing is impeccable, often require rework.

Don't take money up front. This leads to rework and customer dissatisfaction. If the customer insists, take it, but put this money separately from the rest of your money. You will take them when the order is ready and the customer is satisfied.

The heaviest customers are doctors over 50 years old.

The best customers are women of easy virtue and strippers.

If after dinner the needles begin to break, the threads break, and the thread in the bobbin immediately ends, you can no longer sew on this day.

Plan your closing and purchasing days for the days of Venus, and preferably for the days when Venus is in favorable aspects with the Moon. This is despite the fact that cutters are patronized by Mars.

Do not buy fabrics and do not cut on the days of eclipses, full moons, new moons.

Do not buy fabrics when the Moon is in the fourth quarter. You will spend a lot and the product will be sewn for a long time.

If the customer is unhappy, return the money for the fabric and apologize, even if he is wrong.

Never shake those to whom you returned the money and never shake those who come on his recommendation. This is your blacklist.

Never be bad for people you don't like. It's better not to wear them at all.

Do not shake on unborn children and the dead.

Do not overcast your products with any kind of thread. This leads to "disorder in life" and failures in work. Only threads to match!

Never steal the remnants of fabric from customers and do not ask. This is for need. You can take it if they give it themselves, without your asking.

Don't cut the threads with your teeth. To scandals with customers. The threads just need to be cut off.

Don't leave scissors open. This is at a loss.

Don't give your thimble to anyone. This is for squabbles. Better donate.

Pregnant women should not sew on Sundays and on religious holidays, otherwise the child will wrap itself around the umbilical cord and may die from suffocation.

Sewing during pregnancy is good for the health of the child and the pregnant woman herself, especially if she sews for herself. But for an unborn child, you can’t sew categorically. Because of this, he may be born dead.

Pregnant women who sew should not stick needles and pins into themselves (into their clothes). This can lead to accidents, premature births or surgeries.

When you sew a cap for a baby, read a prayer to the Mother of God.

Before opening a wedding or baptismal attire, read the Lord's Prayer.

When sewing a wedding dress in general, you need to be very careful. In no case should you forget the pin in the dress! This threatens with great trouble for both the tailor and the bride. If the needle breaks, be sure to remove all of its fragments from the fabric, even if you have to cut the fabric.

You can not leave the mannequin "naked". This is for poverty.

You can not sweep with black thread.

You can not repair clothes before going out in it. You will sew good luck.

You can not wear a thing on the day you finish it. This is for trouble.

You can’t lunge after cutting to the toilet and use them instead of toilet paper. There will be no profit, but hemorrhoids may appear.

You can't complain about your machine or tools. Well, except for the adjuster. Especially it is impossible to say the word "bad" about them. Tools can take offense and take revenge.

You can't borrow scissors. That is, when you are with them, members of your family can cut them, but not strangers. Although they can cut their own, no one can take your scissors out of the house (workshop), except you.

Pregnant women and children under 3 years old should not be sewn from black or red fabric. This is to death or illness.

When buying scissors, you can not bargain or choose for a long time. Old tailors say that scissors choose their tailor.