"I understand how teens like to shop and try on clothes, so maybe
you won't be able to make all, or even most of their clothes, but
after looking through the pattern catalogs, ready-to-wear styles
are available to the home sewist that will please a teen-ager."
—Sandra Millett, "It's much easier to sew than shop for teen-ager," The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 12, 2000
Today's word is a gender-neutral replacement for the older term "seamstress":
"[Henry Jones was] an avid hunter who'd become an old hand at reupholstering Jeep seats and making sportsman's clothes for his field forays in pursuit of wildlife, he diversified his business interests by adding fabric to his shelves of staple goods.
'I wasn't a seamstress, obviously, and I sure didn't want to be called a sewer, because that looked too much like something else,' he recalled. 'Of course, we have to be so politically correct nowadays that the accepted term has become 'sewist.'"
—Van Henderson, "Electrons and Stitches," Chattanooga Free Press, April 26, 1998
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