Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for April 29, 2013

That is probably /not/ a squid or octopus costume. :)

If dad worked for a union, would he be a teamster seamster?

You have a cool pop, Phoebe

Huh, her dad seems to be a man of many talents.

I said it before I’ll say it again Phoebe has cool parents.

No, “seamster” (also found as “sempster”) is a perfectly good word. Although it originally meant the same thing as “tailor”, in the modern age it is usually a little lower down the scale. A “tailor” makes clothes; a “seamster / seamstress / sempster / sempstress” just sews where the pattern says to sew. (And you will note that Dad is working from a ladybug-costume pattern.)

As to UV, pretty much every UV light I’ve ever seen “leaks” a little in the plain old violet range.

It would appear that “tailor” and “dressmaker” are fairly broad terms for people who may make, alter, or repair clothing (dressmakers specialize in women’s clothing). Seamster/seamstress seem to be people who sew for a living. I know that my amazing step-grandfather was a tailor, and he altered clothing (with all sorts of exciting tools) but did not manufacture it.

I mean a tailor, Phoebe, my great-grandchild.

I prefer to be called a “stitcher”

Thank you mam.

It kind of makes me wonder if Dana and the Seagull intend to have a child.

I can say without fear of contradiction, no. Unless it’s like Ozy.

I love these people. :)

Yes, like Ozymandias Llewellyn.

“Stitcher” was commonly used in the garment industry (back in the long-ago days when there actually was a garment industry in English-speaking countries), but it’s never been used by the population at large. And then there’s plain old “sewing-machine operator”.

they all seem like a family of toys’r’us kids

it’s really the only thing that keeps me going in a toys’r’us-less world :(

I thought the male version was called a “tailor”. :/