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(Chris Conybeare)
When you left school,

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I think you told me you went
to sewing school or something?

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Yes, I went to the village school
and I completed the course in ten months.

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(Chris)
What course?

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There’s the sewing course, complete.

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It’s called the basic sewing course
and then after that I went

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to [unintelligible name] tailoring college
where you finish the final course

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where you learn to do suits
and it’s real tailored suits.

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(Chris)
You can do suits?

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Yes, and we learned to draft
even men’s tailoring techniques.

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I have the ruler with me.

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Very, very formal suits, and so that
and I learned to do fancy smocking

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and also make corsages
out of silk organdy and chiffon.

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See that was very much
in fashion in those days.

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(Chris)
Ok, but you learned

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all these very good skills…