Breaking Out of My Bubble

Photo by Jorge Bermudez on Unsplash

I was a child of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s who grew up in a lower middle-class household. My clothes were hand-me-downs (I was the third person in line to get them), and I often went around with a huge safety pin at my waistband to hold my pants up. Most of my other clothes were homemade. I was taught to sew as a child, and went to a fabric store to pick through the remnants table for…