The shirt reads: “HEMLINE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT.”
Below the lettering, a pair of open scissors crosses a tape measure, with a spool of red thread and a trailing strand beside them.
It gives sewing a research budget and a department name. Anyone who has taken a hem up three times to get it right will recognise the amount of investigation involved.
For dressmakers, tailors, alteration shops, and anyone whose spare room has become a workshop.
