Vol. 2 - The Grind - Chapter 5
Without using his 'All Seeing Eyes', Thomas worked much faster on his second uniform for the day. He felt like he had learned an important lesson. While going for perfection is fine and all, it's not always necessary and sometimes really wasn't worth the effort. Since he had come to that realization he decided to just put his time to better use and focused on working as efficiently as he could. He kept his stitching neat but did it with greater speed than last time.
Thanks to not using 'All Seeing Eyes', the practice he'd had over the last few days, and his increased Tailoring rank he knocked out the last female uniform in about an hour and a half. After earning himself 231 Tailoring experience and turning in the quest, Thomas got back to work. Only this time he grabbed one of the male uniforms since that was all that was left. Looking at the remaining baskets it seemed like the guild that ordered the uniforms was mostly female.
There was nothing wrong with a mostly female guild, but Thomas wouldn't join one. Well, he wouldn't join any guilds usually. He always felt women did better in all-female guilds or in guilds with an even mix of the sexes. When women outnumbered men in a guild it always caused issues, not because of the women but because of the men. They always seemed to want to try to overcompensate to show the women how 'strong' and 'virile' they were. In other words, the men were just horndogs. Maybe not all of them, but enough of them.
Thomas continued to contemplate to himself and reminisce over his past experiences while his hands continued to move. Like always he traced out the patterns for the pieces of the uniform. For the men's clothing, it was significantly easier. The slacks were just two pieces, the front and back halves, that needed to be sewn together. The clients had chosen to make the pants the same dark red color as the skirts and left the shirt white so that the uniforms would match between the sexes.
Once every piece was traced and cut out, Thomas began to hem the sections of cloth that wouldn't become part of the seams when the pieces were sewn together to make a single article of clothing. Just like the women's outfit, the men's shirt had an open collar with three buttons that would require him to reinforce the buttonholes. That was the single most annoying part of making the men's outfit, the rest was simple and easy taking very little time at all. It only took barely over an hour for Thomas to complete his first set of the men's uniform.
| System Notice: You have created a Normal pair of cloth pants. Quality: Excellent. You have gained 71 Tailoring experience. |
